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Cellular and Molecular Biology


  • Ailles, Laurie, at TMDT
  • Archer, Michael C., at MSB
    Molecular carcinogenesis: the goal of this research program is to understand at the cellular and molecular level the mechanisms involved in th e causation of cancer.
  • Attisano, Liliana, at Terrence Donnelly CCBR
  • Aubin, Jane, at MSB
  • Axelrad, Arthur A., at MSB
  • Barber, Dwayne L., at OCI
    Signal Transduction in Hematopoiesis
  • Ben-David, Yaacov, at SHSC
    Oncogenes involved in leukemia: molecular mechanisms underlying evolution of erythroleukemia induced by Friend virus.
  • Bernstein, Alan, at Mount Sinai Berinstein, Neil, at SHSC
    Normal and Malignant B Lymphocytes.
  • Bjerknes, Matthew, at MSB
  • Boyd, Norman F., at OCI
    Breast Cancer: Epidemiology and Prevention.
  • Boutros, Paul, at TMDT
    Personalizing Cancer Medicine Using Genomics and Computational Models
  • Bristow, Rob, at OCI
  • Bruce, W. Robert, at FitzGerald Building
  • Cheung, Peter, at OCI
    Histone modifications in signal transduction pathways and regulation of gene expression
  • Cunningham, Alastair J., at OCI
    Influence of the mind on cancer: group cognitive behavioral therapy.
  • Czarnota, Gregory, at SHSC
  • Danska, Jayne, at TMDT
  • Done, Susan, at OCI
  • Dumont, Dan, at SHSC
    Research on learning how development occurs in the cardiovascular system of the mouse embryo. Signals on a molecular level tell genes when to turn on and off, thus controlling the pattern of cells which determine the vascular system. Understanding the development control in the mouse embryo should provide insight into the control of tumor growth and progression.
  • Filmus, Jorge, at SHSC
    Molecular basis of tumor progression: effects of oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes on growth and cell adhesion in colorectal and breast tumors.
  • Gallie, Brenda, at OCI
  • Gauthier, Mona, at OCI
  • Guha, Abihijit , at HSC
  • Hakem, Razqallah, at OCI
    Molecular Mechanisms of Apoptosis and DNA Damage Repair in Animal Models
  • Hedley, David W., at OCI
    Interest is trying to understand why cancer patients develop resistance to chemotherapy, and to this end his laboratory develops basic research methods for studying drug resistance phenotypes that can be applied to human biopsy material. Laboratory methods are heavily based on advanced flow and image cytometry techniques.
  • Hill, Richard P., at OCI
    Predictive assays of response of tumors to radiation treatment, studies of the metastatic potential of tumor cells.
  • Hogg, David, at MSB
    Molecular Genetics of Germ Cell Tumours and Cell Cycle Regulation.
  • Hudson, Thomas, at TMDT
  • Iscove, Norman N., at TMDT
    Genes controlling self-renewal and differentiation in normal and leukemic hemopoietic stem cells.
  • Irwin, Meredith, at HSC
    P53 family signaling, chemosensitivity and neuroblastoma tumor initiating cells
  • Julius, Michael, at SHSC
    Signal Transduction in Lymphocyte Activation and Differentiation
  • Jurisica, Igor, at TMDT
  • Kamel-Reid, Suzanne, at OCI
  • Keller, Gordon, at TMDT
  • Kerbel, Robert S., at SHSC
    Tumor-host tissue interactions in malignant tumor progression: growth factors involved in metastasis; basis of acquired "multicellular" drug resistance in solid tumors; tumor angiogenesis.
  • Khokha, Rama, at OCI
  • Koch, Anne, at OCI
    DNA damage signaling, repair and cancer
  • Letarte, Michelle, at HSC
  • Liu, Fei-Fei, at OCI
    I. Intracellular Ph Regulation and Thermosensitivity.
    II. Factors Predicting Treatment Response in Human Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
  • Liu, Geoffrey, at OCI
  • Mak, Tak Wah, at AMDI/OCI
    Molecular biology of T cell antigen receptors: AIDS retrovirus, leukemia, T cell differentiation, host genetics in leukemia virus.
  • Malkin, David, at HSC
    The Molecular Biology of Cell Cycle Regulation in the Li-Fraumeni Familial Cancer Syndrome.
  • Manoukian, Armen, at OCI
    Isolation and Characterization of the Components of Wnt Signaling Pathway(s)
  • Marsden, Philip A., at MSB
    Endothelial Cells in Health and Disease
  • Martin, Lisa, at OCI
  • McGlade, Jane, at TMDT/HSC
    Signal transduction pathways in normal development, cell function and cancer.
  • McPherson, John, at TMDT
    Molecular Analysis of Tumors Through High-Throughput Sequencing
  • Medin, Jeffrey A., at Canadian Blood Services Building
  • Messner, Hans A., at OCI
    Directs the clinical Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) program. One of the major goals is to understand mechanisms that lead to the control of hemopoietic malignancies by BMT. This is approached in clincal and laboratory studies.
  • Minden, Mark D., at OCI
    Regulatory mechanisms in human leukemia: identification and isolation of human leukemic transforming genes.
  • Minkin, Salomon, at OCI
    Statistical methods for the analysis of counts and binary data generated by cancer research.
  • Moghal, Nadeem, at TMDT
    Developmental control of cell fate and dysregulation in cancer
  • Muthuswamy, Lakshmi , at TMDT
    Genomic alterations in cancer genomes and genetic disorders
  • Muthuswamy, Senthil, at TMDT
    Cell polarity, morphogenesis and differentiation during development and disease
  • Neel, Ben, at TMDT
  • Ohashi, Pamela S., at OCI
    T lymphocyte development, activation and tolerance as applied to autoimmune disease and tumor surveillance.
  • Okada, Hitoshi, at AMDI
  • Ottensmeyer, F. Peter, at OCI
    Atoms, macromolecules & macromolecular complexes: 3D structure and microanalysis.
  • Paige, Chris, at OCI Miller, Richard G., at OCI
    Cytotoxic T lymphocytes: Mechanisms for self, non-self discrimination. NK cells: recognition mechanisms and ontogeny.
  • Penn, Linda J. Z., at OCI
    Exploiting Molecular Oncology To Trigger Tumor Cell Death
  • Phillips, Robert A.
  • Puri, Mira, at OTHER
    Molecular Genetics of Mammalian Vascular and Hematopoietic Development
  • Rast, Jonathan, at SHSC
    Gene Regulatory Networks in Animal Immunity
  • Raught, Brian, TMDT
  • Rauth, A. Michael, at OCI
    Cancer chemotherapeutic agents: action mechanism of chemotherapeutic agents, radiation sensitizers.
  • Reedijk, Michael, at OCI
  • Rottapel, Rob, at OCI
    Signal Transduction Pathways in Lymphocytes, mechanisms of autoimmunity and cancer.
  • Schimmer, Aaron, at OCI
    Translational apoptosis
  • Schuh, Andre C., at OCI
    Haematopoietic and Endothelial Development.
  • Spaner, David, at SHSC
  • Squire, Jeremy, at OCI
    Molecular Cytogenetics of Solid Tumours and Chromosomal Instability in Cancer
  • Stambolic, Vuk, at OCI
    Signal Transduction and Cancer: Regulation of Cellular Proliferation, Survival and Apoptosis
  • Tannock, Ian, at OCI
    Biology and experimental therapy of solid tumors: biological properties of solid tumors, influence of environmental factors on cell membrane exchange mechanisms and susceptibility of therapeutic attack.
  • Till, James E., at OCI
    Research on decision making in oncology: micro, meso and macro level decisions.
  • Tillier, Elisabeth, at TMDT
    Molecular Evolution, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, and Genomics.
  • Tritchler, David, at OCI
    Statistical Methods for Genetic Analysis.
  • Trudel, Suzanne, at OCI
    Molecular Targeted Therapy for the Treatment of Multiple Myeloma
  • Tsao, Ming, at OCI
    Molecular biology and pathogenesis of lung and pancreatic cancers.
  • van der Kooy, Derek, at Terrence Donnelly CCBR
  • Vaziri, Homayoun, at OCI
    Genetic modulation of life span and tumor suppression
  • Wells, Richard, at SHSC
    Nuclear Receptors in Normal and Malignant Haematopoiesis
  • Whitmore, Gordon, at OCI
  • Wong, Shun, at SHSC
    Response of the Central Nervous System to Ionizing Radiation.
  • Woo, Minna, at OCI
    Tissue-specific Molecular Determinants of Survival, Apoptosis and Metabolism
  • Woodgett, Jim R., at Mount Sinai Hospital
    Signal transduction; transcriptional regulation; molecular biology and gene expression.
  • Wouters, Bradly G., at OCI
  • Zacksenhaus, Eldad, at Canadian Blood Service Building

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