He has cross appointments in Experimental Medicine, Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and Human Genetics. Dr. Kimmelman holds a PhD in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University. Thereafter, he joined McGill in 2005. His research revolves around the ethical, social and policy dimensions of translational research. He received the Institute of Genetics Maud Menten New Investigator Prize, a CIHR New Investigator Award (2008) and a Friedrich Bessel-Humboldt Award (2014). Dr. Kimmelman chaired the ethics committee of the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy (2008-2010) and currently chairs the ethics committee of the International Society of Stem Cell Research.