Dr. Wilson H. Miller is a Professor in Oncology and Medicine at McGill University and the Director at the Clinical Research Unit, Jewish General Hospital. Dr. Miller obtained his PhD in cell biology from the Rockefeller University, and an MD from Cornell University. He completed a fellowship in medical oncology at New York’s Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), and held faculty appointments in the Department of Medicine at Cornell, as well as at MSKCC. He joined McGill as an Associate Professor jointly in Oncology and Medicine in 1993 and was named James McGill Professor in 2004, the latter being a distinction reserved for the top 10% of senior researchers at McGill. His clinical focus is on melanoma, breast and renal cancer, and in championing clinical trials at the JGH and at McGill, where he serves as Director of the Phase I Clinical Research Unit. His basic science focus is on investigating the molecular mechanisms underlying hematologic cancer, melanoma and breast cancer, with a focus on the development of novel targeted therapies. He sits on peer review panels for the National Institutes of Health (US), the Canadian Institute of Health Research, the Ontario Cancer Research Network, and the Leukemia Lymphoma Society.