Tag: Cell therapy

Pierre Villeneuve

Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa   Full Biography   Cancers of Interest Blood

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 »

David Szwajcer

Assistant Professor, Max Rady College of Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Manitoba; Program Director, Manitoba Blood and Marrow Transplant Medical Director, Manitoba Advanced Cell and Tissue Therapy Laboratory   Full Biography   Cancers of Interest Blood   Research and clinical approaches Stem Cells

Denis Claude Roy

Director of the Cellular Therapy Laboratory; Scientific Director of the Centre de recherche Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont Full Professor, Université de Montréal Adjunct professor, McGill University   Full Biography   Cancers of Interest Blood cancers: leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, etc.   Research Interests and Clinical Approach Immunotherapy Immunotolerance   Projects at BioCanRx An Interventional, Open-label, Non-randomized Dose-escalation Phase… Read more »

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 »

Scott McComb

Research Officer, National Research Council; Adjunct Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology, University of Ottawa   Full Biography   Cancers of Interest Blood Colorectal Lung Ovarian   Projects at BioCanRx Clinical Trial Enabling Studies for Multi-targeted Chimeric Antigen Receptor Therapeutics for the Treatment of B-Cell Malignancies

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 »

Naoto Hirano

Senior Scientist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre   Full Biography   Cancers of Interest Blood, Breast, Lung, Ovarian, Pancreatic, Prostate, Skin, Soft Tissue Sarcoma   Research Interests and Clinical Approach Dr. Hirano’s research team is particularly interested in understanding how the interactions between T cells and antigen-presenting cells affect priming, expansion, persistence and differentiation of T… Read more »