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John Aitchison, PhD

John Aitchison, PhD, is a professor and co-director of the Center for Global Infectious Disease Research (CGIDR) at Seattle Children’s Research Institute. He is also an affiliate professor at the University of Washington and a president emeritus of the Center for Infectious Disease Research (CIDR), which joined CGIDR in October 2018. Aitchison previously held the position of chief science officer of CIDR to advance the mission through the development and application of systems biology approaches to infectious diseases. He received his PhD in biochemistry from McMaster University, Canada. He performed postdoctoral research in the Laboratory of Cell Biology at the Rockefeller University under the guidance of Professor Gunter Blobel (Nobel Laureate, 1999). Aitchison is a founding faculty member at the Institute for Systems Biology, where he served as senior vice president and executive director of integrative biology. Aitchison holds part-time, adjunct or affiliate faculty positions at the Institute for Systems Biology, University of Washington (biochemistry), the University of Alberta (cell biology) and the University of British Columbia (biochemistry). Outside of the lab, he enjoys spending time with his family, playing squash and racing sailboats.

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