New Appointment: MBP Welcomes Dr. Deepak Dinakaran

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Deepak Dinakaran, Assistant Professor, to the Department of Medical Biophysics. 

Dr. Dinakaran is a clinician scientist in radiation oncology at the Sunnybrook Research Institute/Odette Cancer Center. He completed his HBSc at the University of Toronto, MD.CM at McGill University, MEd at the University of British Columbia and PhD at the University of Alberta during his residency as part of the clinician-investigator program. He completed a CNS clinical/postdoctoral fellowship in NCI/NIH under Dr. Kevin Camphausen on radiosensitizer discovery in the lab through to first-in-human trials. His research lab focuses on biophotonics systems for diagnostics and therapeutic applications with radiation. In particular, he is interested in radiation & drug combinations, novel nanoparticle-based therapeutics, and understanding radiotherapy-drug interactions using molecular biomarker analysis.

Dr. Dinakaran’s lab is located at the Sunnybrook Research Institute. 

Please join us in welcoming Dr. Dinakaran to the Department.