Dr. Edwards was awarded the O.C. (Officer of the Order of Canada) on May 19, 2022 and Invested on: October 26, 2023 from the Canadian Governor General. He lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is a proponent of open science research. Founder of the internationally renowned Structural Genomics Consortium, he enables open access to bio-medical research without any patents. Extending this successful model, he co-founded Medicines for Kids, which promotes open-access drug research with the aim of generating novel and affordable treatments. A professor at the University of Toronto and McGill University, he has bolstered Canada's reputation in the global scientific and innovation communities with his conception of the role of open science in drug discovery.