Program Head & Senior Scientist
Genetics and Genome Biology Program
The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)
Email: monica.justice@sickkids.ca
Scientific Director
The Centre for Phenogenomics
Professor
Department of Molecular Genetics
University of Toronto
Email: monica.justice@utoronto.ca
Chair Positions
Canada Research Chair
Mammalian Molecular Genetics
Brief biography
Monica J. Justice, PhD, is the Head and a Senior Scientist in the Genetics & Genome Biology Program at SickKids in Toronto, Ontario. She recently moved to this position from Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, where she was a Professor in the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, as well as Director of the Mouse Embryonic Stem Cell Core and the BaSH Consortium for the Production and Broad-based Phenotyping of Knockout Mice. Justice received her PhD from Kansas State University in mouse developmental genetics and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Mammalian Genetics Laboratory at the National Cancer Institute.
She is also a Senior Editor of Disease Models and Mechanisms and Current Protocols in Mouse Biology. She is the recipient of several awards, including an American Cancer Society Junior Faculty Award, an NCI Director’s Service Award, the Burroughs Wellcome Innovation Award in Functional Genomics and the Michael E. DeBakey Excellence in Research Award.