Thomas Hudson has been appointed to the Genome Quebec board of directors. Hudson is president and scientific director of the Ontario Institute for Cancer and a professor in the department of molecular genetics at the University of Toronto.
Additionally, he founded McGill University and the Genome Quebec Innovation Centre, which he managed from 2002 to 2006. He also served as assistant director of the Whitehead/MIT Center for Genome Research and was one of the founders of the International HapMap Consortium, the Public Population Project in Genomics, and the International Cancer Genome Consortium.