Brian Wilhelm obtained his Ph.D. in Medical Genetics from UBC in the Terry Fox Laboratory in Vancouver, in 2003. He then carried out postdoctoral training at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (Cambridge, U.K.) in the lab of Dr. Jurg Bahler, and then in the lab of Dr. Guy Sauvageau at IRIC.
In 2010, Brian Wilhelm launched his own lab, the Institute’s High-Throughput Genomics Research Unit, and began as a Professor in the Department of Medicine of the Université de Montréal.