Experimental Medicine
Experimental Medicine offers research opportunities in the following specialties: cardiology, cancer biology, dermatology, gastroenterology, hematology/oncology, infectious diseases, molecular medicine, nephrology, neurology, and respiratory medicine. All these fields can involve patients and/or experimental animal models.
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Faculty Members in Experimental Medicine
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Afshar, Kourosh | Genital reconstruction and pediatric renal transplant |
| Aparicio, Samuel | Breast cancer, genome sequencing |
| Ashe, Maureen | Mobile health (mHealth); Knowledge translation and implementation science in health; Patient and citizen engagement research; Physical therapy |
| Av-Gay, Yossef | Tuberculosis |
| Avina, Antonio | Systemic Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases (SARDs); Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE); Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA); Long term effectiveness; Multivariate analyses; Outcomes assessment; Pharmaco-epidemiology |
| Ayas, Najib | Public health and afety consequences of sleep apnea and sleep deprivation |
| Barbic, Skye | Occupational therapy; Rehabilitation medicine; assessment; community integration; health and well-being; Implementation Science; Individual Placement Support; measurement; Mental Health and Society; mental health; metrology; Patient Engagement; Rasch Measurement Theory; recovery; Supported Employment; youth |
| Beristain, Alexander Guillermo | Healthy Starts; cellular and molecular processes that direct trophoblast cell biology in early placental development; Examining the A Disintegrin And Metalloproteinase (ADAM) family in trophoblast biology; Examining the effects of obesity-associated inflammation on the maternal-fetal interface; Identifying gene expression differences in subpopulations of trophoblasts in normal and pathological pregnancies |
| Black, Peter | Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (especially equality rights); Canadian human rights legislation |
| Blanke, Philipp | |
| Blydt-Hansen, Tom | Childhood Diseases; Pediatric kidney transplant; Injury phenotype; Rejection; Biomarkers; Metabolomics; Chemokines |
| Boyd, Lara | Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Physical therapy; Rehabilitation medicine; Learning; Learning and Memory; Motor System; Motor learning; Neurophysiology; Physiology; Plasticity / Neuronal Regeneration; stroke |
| Boyd, Jade | |
| Brauer, Michael | Environmental and occupational health and safety; Health sciences; Public and population health; air pollution; built environment; Community Health / Public Health; environmental health; environmental epidemiology; healthy cities; remote sensing |
| Brigham, Emily | Asthma; COPD |
| Brubacher, Jeffrey | drugs and driving, alcohol impaired driving, road safety |
| Brunham, Liam | Medical, health and life sciences; Lipids; Genetics; Pharmacogenomics; Cardiovascular diseases |
| Brussoni, Mariana | Developmental psychology; Psychosocial, sociocultural and behavioral determinants of health; Population health interventions; injury prevention; Children's outdoor play; Risky play; Parenting; health behaviour change; Implementation Science |
| Bryan, Stirling | Economics of health care, policy, from UK |
| Carleton, Bruce | Pediatrics, clinical pharmacology, outcomes research, drug policy evaluation, health services research, drug safety and adverse drug reactions |
| Carlsten, Christopher | Environment and Respiratory Diseases |
| Cherkasov, Artem | Drug design; Bioinformatics, Molecular modeling; Proteomics; Artificial intelligence; Antibiotics |
| Chew, Ben | how kidney stones form and in particular intestinal absorption of minerals that can form kidney stones (calcium and oxalate); genetically modifying bacteria normally used to make yogurt to express a naturally occurring enzyme that breaks down oxalate, thus preventing its absorption into the body where it can combine with calcium to form kidney stones. |
| Christenson, James | Other clinical medicine; sudden cardiac death; chain of survival; out of hospital cardiac arrest; emergency medical services; resuscitation science |
| Cibere, Jolanda | Rheumatology; early osteoarthritis; magnetic resonance imaging in osteoarthritis; biomarkers in osteoarthritis; progression of early osteoarthritis; clinical detection of early osteoarthritis |
| Conway, Edward | Basic medicine and life sciences; coagulation; Innate immunity; Inflammation; vascular biologh |
| Cote, Helene | HIV Infection, blood research, infectious diseases |
| Cox, Michael | genetic testing, experiences of hereditary risk, social and ethical implications of genetics, interpersonal and family communication, qualitative research, narrative and story, Prostate cancer |
| Cresswell, Silke | Functional imaging (PETand fMRI) in Parkinson |
| Daley, Denise | Bioinformatics; Asthma; Complex Trait Genetics; Epigenetics; gene-gene and gene-environment interactions; Genetic Diseases; genetic epidemiology; Genetics of Aging; statistical genetics; Susceptibility Genes |
| Daugaard, Mads | Cancer progression and metastasis; Mechanisms of carcinogenesis; Cancer Diagnosis and Detection; Cancer biology; Cancer diagnostics; Cancer therapy; Cell Signaling and Cancer; Cell Therapy of Cancer; Chemotherapy; DNA damage response pathways; glycobiology; Immunotherapy; Radiotherapy; Cell stress and Cancer; Cell stress signalling in cancer |
| De Vera, Mary | examining how eHealth technologies can support new and existing models of care to improve care delivery and patient outcomes; exploring patients' perspectives and experiences with medication taking and adherence; and evaluating the use and impacts of medications among pregnant women, particularly with inflammatory conditions. |
| Deering, Kathleen | Medical, health and life sciences |
| Devlin, Angela | Human nutrition and dietetics; Human reproduction and development sciences; Pathology (except oral pathology); cardiovascular disease; Children; developmental programming; Diabetes; Obesity |
| Doan, Quynh | Medical, health and life sciences; Health Services; Child and youth mental health; Emergency medicine work load modelling |
| Dong, Xuesen | Cancer progression and metastasis; Gene and molecular therapy; Prostate Cancer; RNA splicing and Gene Regulation; Drug development; Hormone Dependent Cancers; Endocrine Regulation; Premature Labour |
| Dutz, Jan Peter | Immunity in Health & Disease, diabetes, dermatology |
| Eaves, Constance Jean | Normal and leukemic stem cells, normal and malignant breast stem cells |
| Elango, Rajavel | Protein Nutrition, Maternal-Fetal Nutrition, Childhood Malnutrition, Amino Acid Metabolism, Human Nutrition |
| Eng, Janice | Neurorehabilitation, spinal cord, brain |
| Etminan, Mahyar | Eye and Visual System Diseases; Pharmacoepidemiology; Epidemiology; Oular Epidemiology; Drug Safety; Epidemiologist Study Design; Causal Inference; Cancer Epidemiology |
| Fairbairn, Nadia | Drug Abuse |
| Fast, Danya | Social sciences; Substance Use; Substance Use Care; Adolescents and Young Adults; urban health; Urban Poverty; Medical Anthropology; Canada; East Africa |
| Field, Thalia | stroke; Clinical trials; cerebral venous thrombosis; outcomes; cognition; Machine Learning |
| Fleetham, John | Sleep disorders, neuromuscular disorders, obstructive sleep apnea, imaging techniques, respiratory muscle function, systemic blood pressure, hypothalamic pituitary function, psychological status, disordered breathing |
| Ford, Nancy | Medical physics; Medical biotechnology diagnostics (including biosensors); Dental materials and equipment; micro-computed tomography; physiological gating; contrast agents; models of respiratory disease; image-based measurements; dental imaging; x-ray imaging |
| Francis, Gordon | lipoproteins; Cholesterol metabolism; Cardiovascular risk factors; Prevention of cardiovascular disease and diabetes; High density lipoproteins (HDL) |
| Garnis, Catherine | Cancer biology; Tumor progression; Oral premalignant lesions; Head and neck cancer; RNA biology, microRNAs; Alternative splicing; Biomarkers |
| Gerrie, Alina | Clinical medicine; Lymphoid Cancer; Leukemia; genomics; Population-based outcomes; Cellular therapy; Quality of life; Survivorship |
| Goerges, Matthias | Electronic health (e-Health); Health information systems (including surveillance); Expert systems technologies in artificial intelligence; Anesthesiology; Medical devices; Human-computer systems and interface; Bio-signal processing and analysis; Digital health; predictive analytics; decision support systems; Critical Care Medicine; Biomedical Technologies; Health Care Technologies; Human Computer Interaction and Design; Medical informatics; Software Development; patient-oriented research; Data sharing / open data |
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