Dr Geoff Hicks
Position:
- Associate Professor, Biochemistry & Medical Genetics, University of Manitoba
- Senior Investigator, Manitoba Institute of Cell Biology
- Director, Regenerative Medicine Program
- Director, Mammalian Functional Genomics Centre
Biography:
Dr Geoff Hicks is a Canada Research Chair in Functional Genomics and is the Director of the Mammalian Functional Genomics Centre, a centre in the Manitoba Institute of Cell Biology , a joint institute between CancerCare Manitoba and the University of Manitoba, and the Genetics Modeling Centre in the University of Manitoba. He is currently leading the North American Conditional Mouse Mutagenesis Project (NorCOMM), the Canadian component of The International Knockout Mouse Project. Dr Hicks and his team are working with other scientists from around the world to create knockout mice lines for each of the approximate 20 000 mouse genes.
Work Focus:
- Work Focus (Biomedical): bioinformatics
DNA damage response, Ewing sarcoma, alterations in chromosomes, cancer genetics, genes/genetic polymorphisms, mouse models of cancer, normal functioning, oncogenes and tumour suppressor genes, scientific model systems, technology development, TLS, EWS, RNA binding proteins.
