Vice Dean, Research and International Relations and Professor of Biochemistry in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto.

Dr. Lweis is responsible for the oversight of the Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, the Structural Genomics Consortium, McLaughlin Centre for Molecular Medicine, the Lewar Heart and Stroke Centre and the Banting and Best Diabetes Centre. He serves on the boards of Bloorview Kids Rehab and the St. Mikes Hospital Research Institute. Peter is co-chair of the Gairdner Foundation Medical Review Panel and a member of the Medical Advisory Board. He served as Chair of the Biochemistry Department from 1991-2001. Peter received his undergraduate training in Chemistry at the University of Calgary and did his doctorate at Cornell in Physical Chemistry on the theory of protein folding. Postdoctoral studies were done at Portsmouth University on histones using NMR. He joined the Biochemistry Department at the University of Toronto in 1974. Sabbatical leaves were done at UC Davis (1986), the NCBI (1997) and the ISB in Seattle (2002). His research interests include the structure and function of chromosomes with specific reference to gene regulation. Most recently he is engaged with the application of mass-spectrometry to biological problems.

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