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cape town , south africa 125px medical genetics , human genetics , personalized medicine centre family research institute , university of british columbia british columbia for 's children 's hospital british columbia 's children 's hospital molecular provincial health services authority medicine and therapeutics , child & vancouver , british columbia , canada gairdner canada -lrb- 2010 -rrb- order of british columbia -lrb- 2009 foundation -rrb- canada 's health researcher of the year - biomedical wightman and clinical research , canadian institutes for health research cihr award -lrb- 2008 -rrb- -lrb- 2011 -rrb- order of mrh-wiki-photo . jpg michael r. hayden
 michael r hayden harvard university university of cape town
michael r. hayden

michael hayden , is a killam professor of medical genetics at the university of british columbia and canada research chair in human genetics and molecular medicine , hayden is best known for his research in huntington disease -lrb- hd -rrb- .
he is the founder and director of the centre for molecular medicine and therapeutics in vancouver , canada ; a genetic research centre within ubc 's faculty of medicine and affiliated with the child & family research institute and the bc children 's hospital foundation .
he is also the program director of the translational laboratory in genetic medicine in singapore , and was recently appointed as the president of global r&d and chief scientific officer at teva pharmaceutical industries hayden is the most cited author in the world for hd and abca1 .
in 2010 he was awarded member of the order of canada , following his receipt of the order of british columbia in 2009 .
hayden received the canada gairdner foundation wightman award in 2011 , and in 2008 received recognition from the canadian institutes of health research -lrb- cihr -rrb- as canada 's health researcher of the year : cihr michael smith prizes in health research .
in addition to his academic work , hayden is also the founder of three biotechnology companies , neurovir , xenon genetics inc. and aspreva pharmaceuticals .
he is the chief scientific director of xenon .
