Member of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: November 20, 2014
• Invested on: November 18, 2015

For her contributions to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of retinoblastoma, a childhood eye cancer.

Brenda Gallie has improved care for childhood eye cancer patients and has advanced our understanding of the genetics of cancer. As an ophthalmologist and scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children and the University Health Network, and as a professor at the University of Toronto, she has conducted research on retinoblastoma, a rare eye cancer that affects children. She applied her studies on cancer-initiating genes to identify mutations responsible for the disease and developed a highly sensitive diagnostic test for families. She also founded the One Retinoblastoma World network, which identifies the latest advances in patient care to optimize treatment everywhere.