Dr. Diane Cox

Titles

Current Positions

• Professor and founding Chair of the Department of Medical Genetics at the University of Alberta
• Director of The Applied Genomics Centre (a joint facility between the Department of Medical Genetics and the Gastroenterology CFI group)

Fields of Research

• Longstanding involvement in studies of alpha1 antitrypsin deficiency, particularly delineating disease associations, and its role in liver and lung disease

Memberships

• Fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada in 2004.

Experience

• Senior Scientist in the Research Institute of The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
• Medical geneticist in the HSC Genetics Clinic
• Professor of Molecular and Medical Genetics and of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto
• Medical Genetics Services Chairperson for Northern Alberta from 1996 to 2003
• Helped to introduce new services and a Provincial Steering Committee for Medical genetics Services in Northern Alberta

Honours

• Numerous awards for research in inherited liver disease.

Accomplishments

• Established the Department of Medical Genetics at the University of Alberta in 1996
• In 1993, Dr. Cox and her group cloned the gene for Wilson disease
• Played a major role in gene mapping and study of genes on chromosome 14
• Discovery of a gene for schizophrenia.
  

Publications

• Author of over 200 original journal publications and 32 book chapters, several in well-known textbooks