BF Francis Ouellette

Genome Quebec has appointed BF Francis Ouellette as VP scientific affairs effective February 27, bringing more than 20 years of experience in bioinformatics. Ouellette has spent the past 10 years at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research as a lead investigator and associate director of its informatics and biocomputing platform. He was also employed by the US National Institutes of Health where he coordinated GenBank, the world’s largest open DNA sequence database. Prior to 2007, Ouellette worked at the Univ of British Columbia as director of the UBC Bioinformatics Centre at the Michael Smith Laboratories. He holds a BSc in cell and molecular bilogy from McGill Univ, and an MSc in plant physiology and biochemistry from the Univ of Calgary….