Dr. Mona Nemer

Dr. Mona Nemer is a member of the board of ITIF's Centre for Canadian Innovation and Competitiveness.

Dr. Nemer is Canada’s chief science advisor. Her role is to provide science advice to the Prime Minister and his Cabinet. An internationally renowned cardiovascular scientist and a distinguished academic leader, Dr. Nemer has made seminal contributions to several fields ranging from gene regulation to molecular cardiology.

She is professor in the department of Biochemistry, Immunology and Microbiology of the University of Ottawa and served as the university vice president of research for 11 years. Prior to that, she was professor of pharmacology at the Université de Montréal, director of the Cardiac Development Research Unit at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM), and a Tier 1 Canada research chair in cardiovascular cell differentiation. Dr. Nemer holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from McGill University and did post-doctoral training in molecular biology at the IRCM and at Columbia University. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Order of Canada. She is also a Knight of the Ordre national du Québec and a Knight of the French Republic’s Ordre national du Mérite.