CH Waddington Professor of Systems Biology, University of Edinburgh.
Investigator, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital
Professor, Department of Medical Genetics and Microbiology, University of Toronto

Dr. Tyers received his Ph.D. in 1989 from McMaster University and he was a postdoctoral fellow at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. He has received the National Cancer Institute of Canada's William E. Rawls Prize, sponsored by Eli Lilly; the Premier's Research Excellence Award; the Merck-Frosst Award; the Michael Smith Award;the Lloyd S.D. Fogler Q.C. Award for Research Excellence, and the McLaughlin Medal. He has been named a Canada Research Chair in Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics, and in 2002 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.