John A. Morris, PhD

Dr. John A. Morris is an Assistant Professor at the Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomedical Research. and the Department of Molecular Genetics at the University of Toronto.

His research focuses on identifying the genetic determinants of human traits and diseases through genome-wide association studies, functional genomics integration, and massively parallel perturbation screens to study genetic variants within cell-specific contexts.

Dr. Morris received his PhD from McGill University in 2018, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the New York Genome Center and New York University.

John Morris