Senior Scientist, Regenerative Medicine
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Director, Regenerative Medicine Program and Sprott Centre for Stem Cell Research
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Professor, Department of Medicine and Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine
University of Ottawa

Scientific Director
Stem Cell Network

Stem Cell Biology, Myogenesis, Satellite Cells, Molecular Biology, Transcriptional Regulation, Transcriptional Networks, Gene Expression, Signal Transduction, Differentiation, Molecular Genetics.

Michael Rudnicki is a Senior Scientist and the Director of the Regenerative Medicine Program and the Sprott Centre for Stem Cell Research at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. He is Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Ottawa. Dr. Rudnicki is CEO and Scientific Director of the Canadian Stem Cell Network (SCN). Dr. Rudnicki’s achievements have been recognized by numerous honours including being named a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair, an International Research Scholar of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute for two consecutive terms, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, an Officer of the Order of Canada, and a Fellow of the Royal Society (London). He has been a founder in several spin-off biotechnology companies including Satellos Bioscience.

Muscular dystrophy; Neuromuscular disease

Basic research; Bioinformatics; Disease models; Epigenetics; Genetics; Genomics; Model organisms; Molecular and cellular biology; Proteomics; Regenerative medicine; Stem cells; Transgenic/knockout models