Tag: Skin cancer

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 »

Jeffrey Smith

Associate Professor & Director, Carleton Mass Spectrometry Centre (CMSC), Department of Chemistry, Carleton University Associate Professor, Institute of Biochemistry, Carleton University   Full Biography   Cancers of Interest Blood Bone Breast Colorectal Liver Ovarian Pancreatic Prostate Skin Soft Tissue Sarcoma   Projects at BioCanRx Development of Supporting Analytical Assays and Regulatory Compliance Package for Viral… 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 »

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 »

Karen Mossman

Professor, Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University Vice President, Research, McMaster University   Full Biography   Cancers of Interest Breast Cancer   Projects at BioCanRx In vivo genome-wide CRISPR/Cas9 screen to identify genes that limit curative checkpoint blockade immunotherapy in triple negative breast cancer   Recent Articles I study viruses: How our team isolated the… Read more »

Jason Moffat

Professor & Principal Investigator, Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto Canada Research Chair in Functional Genomics of Cancer   Full Biography   Cancers of Interest Skin   Research and clinical approaches Our research is concentrated in three areas:   Identification of genetic interactions and differential gene essentiality in mammalian cancer cell lines Cancer cell… Read more »

Brian Lichty

PhD, Associate Professor, Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster   Full Biography   Cancers of Interest Breast Cervical Gynecological Lung Prostate Skin   Projects at BioCanRx Development of a Virally Programmed Exosome-based Cancer Vaccine Platform   COMBINING ONCOLYTIC VACCINE THERAPY WITH ADOPTIVE CELL THERAPY TO TARGET CANCERS EXPRESSING MAGE-A3   A Phase 1/1b, Multicenter, Open-label Trial… Read more »

Steven Jones

Canada Research Chair in Computational Genomics, University of British Columbia Professor, Medical Genetics/ Genetics Graduate Program, University of British Columbia Director Bioinformatics, Genome BC Bioinformatics Platform, Genome BC Founding Director, CIHR/MSFHR Bioinformatics Training Program Director, Bioinformatics Graduate Program, University of British Columbia   Full Biography   Cancers of Interest Bladder, Blood, Bone, Brain, Breast, Cervical,… 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 »

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 »