Santa J. Ono
| Santa Jeremy Ono | |
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| Born |
November 23, 1962 Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| Nationality | Canada and US |
| Occupation | 15th President & Vice Chancellor, University of British Columbia, Professor of Medicine |
| Known for | Research on eye diseases, university administrator |
| Spouse(s) | Gwendolyn (Wendy) Yip |
| Children | Juliana Yip-Ono, Sarah Yip-Ono |
Santa Jeremy Ono (小野三太, born November 23, 1962) is a Canadian-American biologist and university administrator.
Serving as a faculty member of Emory University, Johns Hopkins University, Harvard University, and University College London, he made key contributions to the field of gene regulation in the immune system and to the understanding of inflammation in the eye. Ono served as the 28th President of the University of Cincinnati and is currently the 15th President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of British Columbia.
Santa J. Ono is the son of mathematician Takashi Ono, who emigrated from Japan to the United States in the late 1950s. He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and also raised in Philadelphia and the northern suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland, where he attended Towson High School.
Ono graduated with a BA in Biological Science from the University of Chicago and a PhD in Experimental Medicine from McGill University in Montreal. He holds a PhD, honoris causa from Chiba University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University supported by the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation.
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