ICCS Scientific Advisory Committee

Carole Yauk was the lead scientist of the Genomics Laboratory in the Environmental Health Science and Research Bureau at Health Canada for 18 years. She joined the University of Ottawa’s Department of Biology as a professor in September 2020, where she holds the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Genomics and the Environment. Her research broadly focuses on the development and implementation of genomic tools for human health risk assessment of environmental chemicals. She is involved in various international committees to advance the use of genomics, including within the Health and Environmental Sciences Institute (HESI) Emerging Systems Toxicology in the Assessment of Risk (eSTAR) and Genetic Toxicology Technical (GTTC) Committees. She currently serves as vice-chair of the Board of Trustees for HESI. She is also involved in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Extended Advisory Group for Molecular Screening and Toxicogenomics since 2012. At present, she is co-chairing the development of the OECD’s Omics Reporting Framework. She is Past-President of the Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society and an editorial board member of several journals focused on mutagenesis and genetic toxicology. In her spare time, she’s an avid skier, rock climber, and runner, who’s always up for a challenge!