John C. Bell, PhD, is senior scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute Centre for Innovative Cancer Research and professor in the University of Ottawa Departments of Medicine and Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology. 

At the University of Ottawa, Dr. Bell leads the Canadian Oncolytic Virus Consortium, a Terry Fox funded group from across Canada that is developing virus-based cancer therapeutics. At the Ottawa Hospital Cancer Center, he is a member of the Center for Cancer Therapeutics. He also serves as director of the Biotherapeutics Program for the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research; scientific director of the National Centre of Excellence for the development of Biotherapeutics for Cancer Therapy; and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. 

Dr. Bell received his PhD from McMaster University in 1982. The three years that followed, he trained as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Ottawa and then at the Medical Research Council in London, England. Dr. Bell began his independent research career at McGill University in 1986 and moved to the University of Ottawa Department of Medicine in 1989.