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Rob Sladek is Associate Professor of Human Genetics and Medicine (Endocrinology) at the Ã山ǿ¼é and Génome Québec Innovation Centre. He completed undergraduate degrees in Engineering Science and Medicine and a clinical fellowship in Endocrinology, all at the University of Toronto. His postdoctoral training explored the role of the Estrogen-related receptors in the regulation of fat metabolism (Err-alpha) and trophoblast formation (Err-beta); as well as and the application of high-throughput genomics technologies to study complex traits. He leads the Diabetes Gene Discovery Group – a project to identify risk loci for Type 2 diabetes that was sponsored by Genome Canada and Génome Québec. Rob's current research centers on developing and applying new technologies to study gene transcription networks and protein function in living cells in order to understand how genetic risk loci influencing T2D risk or the host response to tumors exert their effects.