Benedikt is Professor and Head of the Dept of Cell Biology & Anatomy at the University of Calgary. The central motivating question for his research program is how genetic and environmental influences impact developmental systems to produce anatomical variation. His program uniquely integrates advanced imaging and measurement (morphometrics) with developmental biology to understand the underlying mechanisms for phenotypic variation. His work extends to the mechanisms that underlie structural birth defects such as craniofacial anomalies, to the anatomical aspects of genetic disease as well as the relationship between evolution and development. He is the Deputy Director of the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute and co-leads One Child Every Child’s Precision Health and Wellness Theme, and Comprehensive Data Accelerator which aims to improve outcomes for child health in Canada. He was awarded the Rohlf Medal for Excellence in Morphometrics in 2015 and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science as well as the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (2020).
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