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.
Explore our Programs in Experimental Medicine
Faculty Members in Experimental Medicine
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Masse, Louise | Health care administration; Health sciences; Public and population health; Childhood obesity with specific interests in prevention and treatment using lifestyle modification; Films, Membranes and Multiphase Polymers; Health Promotion; Nutrition; Obesity; Physical Activity |
| Matsell, Doug | Childhood kidney disease, Congenital urinary tract obstruction |
| Matsubara, Joanne Aiko | Sensory systems, visual; Cellular interactions (including adhesion, matrix and cell wall); Gene and molecular therapy; Cellular neuroscience; neuroscience; vision; cell and development; cell death pathways; innate immune response; eye disease, retinal degenerations; Alzheimer's disease; neurodegeneration |
| Maxwell, Christopher | Cancer; Hereditary Cancer; Cell division; Cell migration; Differentiation; Cell polarity |
| McAlpine, Jessica | subtypes of ovarian and endometrial cancers, and prevention |
| McCracken, Rita | Audit and feedback to improve primary care prescribing; Health human resources; Polypharmacy and deprescribing; Frailty, aging; Patient-oriented research outcomes; Primary care research; Health services evaluation |
| McKay, Heather | Population health interventions; Aging process; Social and biological determinants of aging; Health promotion and disease prevention; Prevention, treatment and support of youth health; Medical, health and life sciences; Knowledge translation and implementation science in health; Health and community services; Aging Process; Public and Population Health |
| McNagny, Kelly Marshall | Cellular immunology; Regenerative medicine (including stem cells and tissue engineering); Stem Cells; Immunology; Inflammation; Mouse models of human disease; Tissue degeneration/regeneration; Cancer; innate immune response; kidney function; Biologics and therapeutics |
| Milloy, Michael-John | Infectious diseases; Clinical sciences, n.e.c.; Psychosocial, sociocultural and behavioral determinants of health; medical cannabis; overdose; HIV disease; people who use drugs; Substance use disorder |
| Miran-Khan, Karim | Exercise is Medicine; Health promotion via Exercise; Type 2 DM prevention |
| Moore, David | HIV prevention and control, HIV among men who have sex with men, HIV in sub-Saharan Africa; epidemiology; public health |
| Moritz, Orson | Mechanisms underlying genetically inherited forms of blindness |
| Mui, Alice | Inflammatory Signalling Pathways |
| Mulpuri, Kishore | Surgery; bone diseases; Cerebral Palsy; Connective Tissue Diseases; Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip; Joints (Articulations); Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease; Locomotor Activity / Movement Disorders; Methodological Research; Muscle; Muscular Diseases; Musculoskeletal Deformation; Musculoskeletal Lesions and Repair; Neuromuscular Diseases; Orthopaedic Engineering; Patient Quality Improvement and Quality Assurance; Pediatric Hip Conditions; Pediatric Orthopaedic Trauma; Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis; Trauma / Injuries |
| Nappi, Lucia | Drug discovery, Identification of new biomarkers - genitourinary malignancies, Genitourinary tumors |
| Nguan, Christopher | Urology; Computer engineering; Civil engineering, n.e.c.; Biomedical instrumentation (including diagnostics); Medical devices; Artificial tissues engineering; Biomedical robotics; Image guided surgery systems; Applied immunology (including antibody engineering, xenotransplantation and t-cell therapies); Transplantation immunology; kidney transplantation; patient reported outcomes; medical apps for mobile health; machine learning analytics of medical imaging; machine learning analytics of complex medical data outcomes; Robotics; quality in healthcare; environmental impact of healthcare; Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare |
| Nicolaou, Savvakis | Radiology, nuclear medicine and medical imaging; Computed Tomography; Artificial Intelligence; Emergency Radiology; Trauma Radiology; Nuclear Magnetic Resonance |
| Nolan, Seonaid | Substance use disorder; Access to evidence-based medications for incarcerated individuals |
| Nunez, Desmond | Sensory systems, auditory; Otorhinolaryngology; Age Related Hearing Loss; Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss; Recurrent Acute Otitis Media |
| Ong, Christopher | Prostate cancer growth; Treatment resistance; Cell signalling pathways; SEMA3C |
| Palepu, Anita | Health services and systems; homeless; Addiction; housing; Epidemiology; health care utilization; safe medication prescribing |
| Panenka, William | Brain, Behaviour & Development |
| Pelech, Steven | Neurological disorders (except neuromuscular diseases); Mechanisms of carcinogenesis; Adaptive immunity; Medical virology; Protein Microarrays; Protein Kinases; Protein Phosphatases; Protein phosphorylation; Cell signalling; Signal transduction; Cell division; COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; Neurological Disease; Cancer; Immunology |
| Plotkin, Steven | Biophysics theory and computation |
| Price, Morgan | Health Information Systems; Design; family medicine; eHealth Adoption; eHealth Requirements Engineering; eHealth Ux/UI Design; software engineering; decision support systems; Treatment Adherence; Consumer eHealth; Health System Improvement; primary care; Team-based care |
| Purcell, Sarah | Medical, health and life sciences; Nutrition; energy balance; Obesity; Metabolism; energy expenditure; appetite; diet |
| Quon, Bradley | Cystic Fibrosis; Epidemiology; Respiratory System; Proteomics; Immune Mediators: Cytokines and Chemokines; biomarker discovery and development; clinical epidemiology; health care economics; medication adherence |
| Rabkin, Simon | Hypertension |
| Ramer, Matthew | Pain, Plasticity, Regeneration, Sensory neurons, Sympathetic neurons |
| Rankin, Catharine | Effects of experience early in development on adult behaviour and the nervous system, adult learning and memory |
| Reid, Gregor | Basic medicine and life sciences; paediatric cancer; cancer immunology; animal models of cancer |
| Robillard, Julie | Medical, health and life sciences; Patient experience/patient engagement; eHealth; Assistive technology; Neuroethics; Brain health technology; Artificial Intelligence; Dementia; mental health; Social robots; pediatrics |
| Robinson, Wendy | Other basic medicine and life sciences; Medical Genetics; Early (prenatal) human development; Placenta; Epigenetics; DNA methylation; Sex differences; Mosaicism |
| Rossi, Fabio | Stem Cell Regenerative Medicine blood, Stem cells, regeneration, gene therapy, control of cell fate |
| Ryerson, Christopher | Interstitial lung disease, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, combined pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema, dyspnea, pulmonary rehabilitation, symptom management, health care databases. |
| Sadarangani, Manish | Immunology; Microbiology; Bacteria; Bacterial Vaccines; Childhood infections; Epidemiology; Immune System; Vaccine Development; Vaccine immunity; Clinical trials and observational studies |
| Salh, Baljinder Singh | Gastrointestinal Pathologies; Nutrition and Cancer; Inflammatory bowel disease; Colon cancer; Signal transduction |
| Sanatani, Shubhayan | Arrhythmia; Sudden death, ion channelopathies, supraventricular tachycardia, autonomic nervous system |
| Sandford, Andrew | genetic basis of asthma and has extended his studies to include the genetics of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and peanut allergy as well as the genetic basis of pulmonary disease severity in cystic fibrosis; potential effects on gene function of genetic variants associated with these disease outcomes |
| Sawatzky, Bonita | Clinical medicine; Mobility; Outcome measures; biomechanics |
| Schuetz, Christian | Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects |
| Scott, Alexander | Physical therapy; Rehabilitation medicine; musculoskeletal; Musculoskeletal Lesions and Repair; orthopaedics; physical therapy; physiotherapy; sports medicine |
| Sellers, Stephanie | |
| Seow, Chun Yong | Airway smooth muscle, Asthma, Respiratory System, Muscle mechanics, Muscle biochemistry, Muscle ultrastructure |
| Shadgan, Babak | Medical biotechnology diagnostics (including biosensors); Biomedical instrumentation (including diagnostics); Orthopedics; Sports medicine; Bone, skin and cartilage science; Central nervous system; Implantable Biosensing; sensor and system design, clinical application development; Wearable Biosensors; design and application development in health care and exercise sciences; Musculoskeletal, Sports & Exercise Medicine; Bone Fracture Healing; Spinal Cord Injuries |
| Shaw, Christopher | Paralympics |
| Sin, Donald | CODP (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) |
| Skarsgard, Erik | Fetal surgery, Chest wall disorders in children, birth defects, neonatal surgical outcomes, perinatal networks, prenatal diagnosis and intrauerine surgery |
| Sly, Laura | Innate immunity; Inflammatory bowel disease; Inflammation; macrophages; Cell signalling |
| Snutch, Terrance Preston | Medical, health and life sciences; Brain Disorders; Animal models; genomics; Drug discovery & development |
