Morag Park

Morag Park C.Q. PhD. is President and Scientific Director of the Gairdner Foundation Canada. She is a distinguished James McGill professor at McGill University and held the Diane and Sal Guerrera Chair in Cancer Genetics at McGill. She was the scientific director of the Institute of Cancer Research for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (2008–13), co-chair of the Canadian Cancer Research Alliance (2008–10) and was the director of the Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Institute at McGill (2013–2015). She is a research leader in the field of receptor tyrosine kinases (RTK) and signal transduction in cancer and has pioneered studies of the breast tumour and immune microenvironment. Dr. Park completed a BSc with first class honors from the University of Glasgow, PhD at the Medical Research Council Institute in Scotland and postdoctoral training at the National Institutes for Cancer Research in Washington DC. She is a Knight of the Ordre national du Québec (2021), Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2007), and Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (2017). Amongst many prizes she is a recipient of the Exceptional Leadership in Cancer Research award from the Canadian Cancer Research Alliance (2015) as well as a recipient of the Canadian Cancer Society Robert L. Noble Prize (2017). She was inducted into the Canadian Medical hall of Fame in 2026.