Biography - William R. Driedzic

Dr. William R. Driedzic is one of Canada’s leading fish physiologists and is currently the Tier I Canada Research Chair in Marine Bioscience at Memorial University of Newfoundland. His primary research exploits the unique properties of marine organisms to address human disease issues such as diabetes and cardiac ischemia. He has also worked in applied biology in the area of aquaculture. Dr. Driedzic has received funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and a number of health-related agencies, such as the Heart and Stroke Foundation, New Brunswick Medical Research Fund and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

Dr. Driedzic has served as the Vice-President (Academic and Research) at Mount Allison University, Director of the Ocean Sciences Centre at Memorial University and Director of AquaNet, a Network of Centres of Excellence in Aquaculture. He has served on numerous national committees, including NSERC panels and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Science Advisory Council.