Overview

Ross Milne is Director of the Diabetes and Atherosclerosis Laboratory at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. He is also a Professor in the Departments of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Ottawa.

Background

Milne received a PhD in Immunology from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1976. With the support of a Post-doctoral Fellowship from the Medical Research Council of Canada, he then spent four years in the International Institute of Cellular Pathology at the Université Catholique de Louvain in Brussels. There, he worked in the laboratory of Dr. Jean Pierre Vaerman. In 1980, he joined the Lipoprotein Metabolism Laboratory at the Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal and obtained a faculty appointment at the Université de Montréal. In 1992, he moved to the University of Ottawa to help establish the Lipoprotein and Atherosclerosis Research Group.