Philip Awadalla

Philip Awadalla
Philip Awadalla
Born	Philip Awadalla; 7 November 1969; Canada
Alma mater	University of Toronto (MSc); University of Edinburgh (PhD);
Known for	Global genomics; Mutation and early disease progression; Population cohort studies;
Awards	Killam Laureate 2000 ; Genome Quebec Recruitment Award 2010 ; Quebec Discovery of the Year 2011 ; Canadian Society for Clinical Investigation Young Investigators Award 2012 ; Queens University Haust Distinguished Lecturer ; Academy of Science of South Africa Distinguished Visiting Scholar 2015 ; Google Cloud Innovator;
	Scientific career
Institutions	University of Oxford; University of Toronto; Ontario Institute for Cancer Research; University of Montreal;
Thesis	(2001)
Doctoral advisor	Deborah Charlesworth
Other academic advisors	Kermit Ritland; Charles Langley;
Doctoral students	Professor Julie Hussin
Other notable students	Professor Alan Hodgkinson
Website	pawadallalab.org

Philip Awadalla is the Professor of Molecular Genetics at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, and a Big Data Institute Group Leader at the University of Oxford, as well as the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. He is the National Scientific Director of the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow's Health (CanPath), formerly the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project (CPTP), and executive director of the Ontario Health Study. He was the Executive Scientific Director of the Genome Canada Genome Technology Platform, the Canadian Data Integration Centre. Professor Awadalla was also the Executive Scientific Director of the CARTaGENE biobank, a regional cohort member of the CPTP, from 2009 to 2015, and is currently a scientific advisor for this and other scientific and industry platforms. At the OICR, he was the Director of Computational Biology.