Tag: Gene therapy

James Koropatnick

Distinguished Oncology Scientist of the London Regional Cancer Program (London Health Sciences Centre) Director, Strategic Training Program in Cancer Research and Technology Transfer Assist. Director, Lawson Health Research Institute   Full Biography   Cancers of Interest Breast Colorectal Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumours (GIST) Head and Neck Lung Neuroblastoma Pancreatic   Projects at BioCanRx Advanced preclinical development… Read more »

Carolina Ilkow

Senior Scientist, Cancer Therapeutics Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute Associate Professor, University of Ottawa   Full Biography   Cancers of Interest Breast Cervical Colorectal Gynecologic Head and Neck Ovarian Pancreatic   Projects at BioCanRx Development of a Virally Programmed Exosome-based Cancer Vaccine Platform

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 »

Kevin Hay

Clinician Scientist & Hematologist, The Leukemia/Bone Marrow Transplant Program of BC, BC Cancer and Vancouver General Hospital Medical Director, CFIL, Immunotherapy Program of BC Scientist, Terry Fox Laboratory, BC Cancer Research Institute Assistant Professor. Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia   Full Biography   Cancers of Interest Blood   Research and clinical approaches Bioinformatics,… Read more »

Jean-Simon Diallo

Senior Scientist, Cancer Therapeutics Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute Associate Scientist, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa   Full Biography   Cancers of Interest Sarcoma Prostate Breast   Research Interests and Clinical Approach Oncolytic Virotherapy Viral sensitizers Combination Immunotherapy   Projects at BioCanRx Development of Supporting Analytical Assays and Regulatory Compliance Package for Viral Sensitizer… Read more »

David Courtman

Director, Cell Manufacturing, Biotherapeutics Core Facilities, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute Senior Investigator, Regenerative Medicine Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute Assistant Professor, Dept of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa   Full Biography   Cancers of Interest Blood   Research and clinical approaches Stem Cells

Marcus Butler

Clinician Investigator, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre   Full Biography   Cancers of Interest Bladder Cervical Esophageal Gastric Gynecologic Ovarian Pancreatic Skin   Research Interests and Clinical Approach Clinical trials research focuses on adoptive immunotherapy for multiple different solid tumor types   Projects at BioCanRx   Phase Ib trial of pembrolizumab administered following adoptive cell therapy-… Read more »

Tania Bubela

Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences Dean, Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University   Full Biography   Research and clinical approaches My research program focuses on three main areas in health and biotechnology law and policy:   Knowledge translation in health, biotechnology and new technologies in biomedicine. Impacts of innovation, commercialization/open science and intellectual property policies on… Read more »

Jonathan Bramson

Professor, McMaster University Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine Vice-Dean, Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University Director, Fraunhofer Project Centre for Biomedical Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing Canada Research Chair in Translational Cancer Immunology John Bienenstock Chair in Molecular Medicine   Full Biography   Cancers of Interest Bone Breast Lung   Projects at BioCanRx Phase… Read more »

Harold Atkins

Scientist, Cancer Therapeutics Program Ottawa Hospital Research Institute Attending Physician, Blood and Marrow Transplant Program The Ottawa Hospital Associate Professor, Clinical Hematology University of Ottawa   Full Biography   Cancers of Interest Blood Cancer   Recent Articles HQP Development Committee