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Dr. Chris McMaster

"My hope is that through my research I’ll identify new genes and make new medicines that will lead to better treatments at the IWK and around the world."

For over a decade, Chris has been a researcher at the IWK and Dalhousie University. He manages a research lab analyzing various illness-related genes, with a goal of identifying new medications and drugs to treat related diseases. Chris says that in the time he's been doing research, the field has grown in leaps and bounds.