Bob Church (geneticist)

Robert Bertram Church CM AOE (May 7, 1937 – September 6, 2019) was a Canadian geneticist, rancher, and a Professor Emeritus at the University of Calgary, noted for having helped modernize agriculture in Canada by transferring molecular biology and genetics techniques to the agricultural and biotechnology industries. He was also the director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and the Calgary Stampede, as well as a founding member of the University of Calgary's Faculty of Medicine and of Canada's Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council. In 1969, he became the founding head of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Calgary's Faculty of Medicine, which has been since renamed to Cumming School of Medicine.

Bob Church (geneticist)

Robert Bertram Church CM AOE (May 7, 1937 – September 6, 2019) was a Canadian geneticist, rancher, and a Professor Emeritus at the University of Calgary, noted for having helped modernize agriculture in Canada by transferring molecular biology and genetics techniques to the agricultural and biotechnology industries. He was also the director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and the Calgary Stampede, as well as a founding member of the University of Calgary's Faculty of Medicine and of Canada's Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council. In 1969, he became the founding head of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Calgary's Faculty of Medicine, which has been since renamed to Cumming School of Medicine.