PHRI Population Health Research Institute
Michael Chong is an accomplished academic and researcher currently serving as an Assistant Professor in Pathology & Molecular Medicine and Assistant Director at the CRLB-GMEL program at McMaster University since November 2021. Concurrently, Michael Chong holds the position of Chief Research Officer at AgeRate since May 2018 and has been a Bioinformatician and Research Associate at the Population Health Research Institute since October 2014. Previously, Michael Chong was the Head of Bioinformatics at Gene Blueprint from September 2016 to June 2020 and worked as a Teacher at Achieve Learning Centre from September 2013 to April 2015. Michael Chong's teaching experience at McMaster University includes serving as a Teaching Assistant for various undergraduate courses between September 2009 and April 2014. Michael Chong's educational background includes a PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, an MSc in Medical Sciences with a specialization in Cancer & Genetics, and a degree in Arts and Science with a focus on Molecular Biology and Genetics, all from McMaster University.
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PHRI Population Health Research Institute
Global Health | Global Partnerships | Global Impact Research encompassing 1,500,000 participants in 102 countries on 6 continents. PHRI (Population Health Research Institute), a joint institute of McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences, is a world leader in clinical trials and large population health observational studies. PHRI is entering its third decade, still led by founder and Executive Director, Dr. Salim Yusuf. He and his team of now 300+ staff, senior scientists, scientists, investigators and research fellows, are asking important questions about cardiovascular disease, diabetes, PHRI’s research areas now also include perioperative and surgery; stroke and brain health; ACS and interventional cardiology; infectious diseases, GI, population genomics; thrombosis; heart failure; renal disease; obesity; childhood risk factors; and more. PHRI’s capacity to conduct several international studies concurrently, with tens of thousands of participants in each, is a capability very few organizations in the world can match. PHRI.ca/careers