1. Marco Antonio Marra is a distinguished scientist and director of Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre at the BC Cancer Research Centre and professor of medical genetics at the University of British Columbia.
13 Facts About Marco Marra
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Marco Marra serves as UBC Canada Research Chair in Genome Science for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and is an inductee in the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.
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Marco Marra went on to become Group Leader of both the EST Sequencing Team and Genome Fingerprinting and Mapping Teams at Washington University in St Louis's Genome Sequence Center.
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Marco Marra held the position of senior scientist at BC Cancer Research and adjunct professor for the Department of Medical Genetics.
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Marco Marra subsequently became professor and head of the Department of Medical Genetics in the Faculty of Medicine at UBC.
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From 2011 to 2018, Marco Marra founded and co-directed the Genome Science and Technology Graduate Program at UBC.
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Marco Marra served as adjunct professor at the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Simon Fraser University from 2001 to 2015.
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Marco Marra took over as director of Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre when Dr Smith died of cancer in 2000.
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Jones, Marco Marra was instrumental in creating the first map the human genome, an international initiative that allowed the data to remain in the public domain.
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Marco Marra made fundamental contributions to that effort by devising and then implementing clonal fingerprinting techniques that led to the construction and use of the map, which served as the centralized coordinating resource for the sequencing effort.
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Research co-led by Marco Marra identified an alternative procedure for extracting nucleic acids for COVID-19 testing.
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Marco Marra continues to extend the reach of genomics toward managing and eradicating disease.
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Marco Marra is a recipient of the Order of British Columbia and became a member of the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame in 2020.