Tag: Biomarkers

Simon Turcotte

Associate professor, Department of surgery, Université de Montréal; Physician, Hepatopancreatobiliary and liver transplantation division, CHUM; Co-director, CHUM hepatopancreatobiliary cancer clinical database and biological specimen repository Roger-Des-Groseillers chair in hepatobiliary and pancreatic oncological surgery, Université de Montréal   Full Biography   Cancers of Interest Liver, Pancreas, Melanoma   Research and clinical approaches Characterization of immune recognition… Read more »

Uri Tabori

Staff Physician, Haematology/Oncology & Senior Scientist, Genetics & Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children; Senior Scientist, The Hospital for Sick Children; Garron Family Chair in Childhood Cancer Research   Full Biography   Cancers of Interest Brain, Gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GIST), Head and Neck   Research Interests and Clinical Approach The Tabori lab is focused… Read more »

Sheila Singh

Professor of Surgery and Biochemistry, McMaster University; Chief Pediatric Neurosurgeon, McMaster Children’s Hospital; Division Head, Neurosurgery, Hamilton Health Sciences Director, McMaster Centre for Discovery in Cancer Research Senior Canada Research Chair, Human Brain Cancer Stem Cell Biology Director, McMaster Surgeon Scientist Program   Full Biography   Cancers of Interest Brain   Projects at BioCanRx Bispecific… Read more »

Sachdev Sidhu

Professor, Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto   Full Biography   Cancers of Interest Bladder, Blood, Brain, Breast, Colorectal, Gastric, Head and Neck, Kidney, Liver, Lung, Neuroblastoma, Ovarian, Pancreatic, Prostate, Skin   Research and clinical approaches The Sidhu lab studies the relationships between protein structure and function, using phage display in conjunction with high-throughput screening and… Read more »

Harman Sekhon

Chief, Division of Anatomic Pathology, Ottawa Hospital; Regional Head and Director of Anatomic Pathology, Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratory Association (EORLA); Regional Cancer Pathology Lead, Cancer Care Ontario (CCO)   Full Biography   Cancers of Interest Lung Ovarian Prostate   Projects at BioCanRx Interrogation of Biomarkers in Patient Samples from a Phase Ib Trial of the… Read more »

Trevor Pugh

Senior Scientist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre Canada Research Chair in Translational Genomics Associate Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto Director, Translational Genomics Laboratory, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research   Full Biography   Cancers of Interest Blood, Brain, Breast, Cervical, Colorectal, Endometrial, Gynecologic, Head and Neck, Kidney, Liver, Lung, Neuroblastoma, Ovarian, Pediatric solid tumours

Pamela Ohashi

Senior Scientist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre Director, Tumor Immunotherapy Program Canada Research Chair in Autoimmunity and Tumor Immunity Professor, Department of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto   Full Biography   Cancers of Interest Breast cancer, Gynecological cancers, Head and Neck cancer, Lung… Read more »

Brad Nelson

Scientific Co-Director, BC Cancer Immunotherapy Program (Deeley Research Centre) Professor of Biochemistry/Microbiology, University of Victoria Professor of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia   Full Biography   Projects at BioCanRx Enabling a Phase I/II Multicenter Clinical Trial of a Novel Single Domain (sd)CD-22-specific Camelid-derived Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-cell Therapy   Interrogation of Biomarkers in… Read more »

Julian Lum

Senior Scientist, BC Cancer Associate Professor, Biochemistry, Microbiology and Biology, University of Victoria   Full Biography   Cancers of Interest Prostate Ovarian   Research and Clinical Approaches Metabolomics Raman Spectroscopy Flow Cytometry Immunoassays T cells Immunohistochemistry Radioligand targeted therapy   Projects at BioCanRx Targeted RadioLigand (tRL) and checkpoint blockade for metastatic castrate resistant prostate cancer… Read more »

Megan Levings

Investigator, BC Children’s Hospital (Lead, Childhood Diseases Research Theme) Professor, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia   Full Biography   Cancers of Interest Blood   Research Interests and Clinical Approach Cell Therapy Transplantation   (https://www.bcchr.ca/levingslab)   Projects at BioCanRx Garbage to Gold: expansion of Therapeutic Regulatory T Cells from discarded thymus… Read more »