Biography

Shawn McGuirk is Deputy Director (previously, Senior Policy Advisor and Canadian Science Policy Fellow) at the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), an alumnus of the Government of Canada Recruitment of Policy Leaders program, and a PhD and Vanier Scholar at the Goodman Cancer Research Centre at McGill University. His research centers on the role of cellular metabolism in cancer progression. During this degree he completed numerous international collaborations and high-impact peer-reviewed publications, and he launched a biomedical startup (ProVivoX) which won top prizes in competitions at the US Center for Advancing Innovation Breast Cancer Startup Challenge and at Fondation Montréal. Shawn also strives to elevate the voices of young researchers in science policy, notably through his roles on the board of directors of Acfas and as a director and past president of the student-led non-profit organization Science & Policy Exchange (SPE).