Interdisciplinary Oncology
Interdisciplinary Oncology offers advanced study and research in a variety of fields relating to oncology. The focus on interdisciplinarity is accomplished through a breadth of coverage in the following disciplines: molecular and cellular biology, genetics, biophysics, bioinformatics, pharmaceutical sciences, radiological sciences, immunology, socio-behavioural studies, and epidemiology.
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Faculty Members in Interdisciplinary Oncology
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Aparicio, Samuel | Breast cancer, genome sequencing |
| Bally, Marcel Bertran | Pancreas centre |
| Baumbusch, Jennifer | long-term residential care, family caregiving, Intellectual Disability, nursing care of older adults |
| Benard, Francois | Medical isotopes Radioisotopes Nuclear Medicine Cancer Imaging Molecular imaging of cancer Radionuclide therapy, Cancer division, radiology, pancreas centre |
| Bennewith, Kevin | Oncology; Molecular Pathology & Cell Biology; Cancer research; Solid tumour microenvironment; Hypoxia; Metastasis research; Pre-metastatic niche; Targeting hypoxic tumour cells in therapy; Radiation biology |
| Brooks-Wilson, Angela | Bioinformatics; Clinical oncology; Genetic medicine; Genomics; cancer families; cancer genetics; genetic susceptibility; human genetics; longevity; Super seniors |
| Brown, Carolyn Janet | Bioinformatics; Clinical oncology; Genetic medicine; Genomics; Health counselling; Applied Genetics; Chromosomes: Structure / Organization; DNA methylation; Epigenetic control of gene expression; Gene Regulation and Expression; Genes escaping X-chromosome inactivation; Long non-coding RNAs; X-chromosome inactivation; XIST RNA |
| Campbell, Kristin | Clinical oncology; Physical therapy; Rehabilitation medicine; Biomarkers; Breast Cancer; Exercise Physiology; oncology; physical function; Physiology; Quality of Life and Aging; rehabilitation |
| Cherkasov, Artem | Drug design; Bioinformatics, Molecular modeling; Proteomics; Artificial intelligence; Antibiotics |
| Collins, Colin | translational genomics where mathematics, genomics, computer science, and clinical science converge in diagnostics and therapeutics |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Dedhar, Shoukat | molecular biology, molecular biology as it relates to disease; developing new theraputics for cancer; how brain cells (neurons)make connections, therapeutics for cancer; molecular genetics and cancer; medical research, cancer, inflammatory diseases, cariovascular diseases, Cellular proteins, extracellular martrix, integrins, signal transduction, calreticulin, protein kinase, gene expression, cell differentiation |
| Dong, Xuesen | Cancer progression and metastasis; Gene and molecular therapy; Prostate Cancer; Drug development; RNA splicing and Gene Regulation; Hormone Dependent Cancers; Endocrine Regulation |
| Drew, Yvette | |
| Evgin, Laura | |
| Garnis, Catherine | Cancer biology; Tumor progression; Oral premalignant lesions; Head and neck cancer; RNA biology, microRNAs; Alternative splicing; Biomarkers |
| Gleave, Martin | Infectious diseases, interdisciplinary oncology, prostate |
| Haase, Kristen | Nursing, n.e.c.; oncology; Older Adults; Geriatric oncology; Health systems research; Mixed Methods Research; Qualitative research; Self-management; E-health |
| Hieter, Philip | Molecular biology of eukaryotic chromosome transmission |
| Hirst, Martin | Bioinformatics; Clinical oncology; Genomics; Immunology; Microbiology; Carcinogenesis; Cellular Differentiation; Epigenomics; Leukemia; Molecular Genetics |
| Holt, Robert | Immunogenetics, Metagenomics - Infectious agents in Cancer, Cancer Genomes, Neurobiology, DNA Sequencing |
| Howard, Fuchsia | health service needs of vulnerable, high-risk survivors of acute life-threatening illness, specifically, cancer survivors and survivors of critical illnesses; hereditary cancer prevention and risk management and psychosocial and ethnocultural factors that shape health and illness experiences |
| Huntsman, David | hereditary cancer, molecular pathology, cancer biomarkers, Pancreas centre |
| Jiang, Xiaoyan | Cancer drug development and therapeutics |
| Jones, Steven J | Bioinformatics, genome science, mutations, cancer progression |
| Karsan, Aly | Hematological tumours; Cancer molecular targets; Leukemia; Hematopoiesis; Genomics and epigenomics; Noncoding RNAs; Aging |
| Kitts, David | Food chemistry and toxicology, cellular and molecular mechanism, oncology |
| Klein Geltink, Ramon | Pathology (except oral pathology); Metabolism; Immunotherapy; Cell Signaling and Infectious and Immune Diseases; Auto-Immune Diseases; Cell Therapy of Cancer; Adoptive cellular therapy; Immunometabolism; T cell function |
| Kuchenbauer, Florian | stem cell transplantation; translational leukemia research; treatment of patients with hematological diseases; physiology of normal and malignant hematopoiesis |
| Lam, Wan | Cancer progression; Genome biology; Epigenetics; Molecular Systems Biology; Lung Cancer; Technology Development |
| Lam, Stephen C | Lung cancer, optical imaging, tomography, spectroscopy |
| Lau, Joseph | Cancer drug development and therapeutics; Nuclear medicine; Cancer; Radiopharmaceuticals; Imaging; Radiotherapy |
| Lee, Tim | Computing; Early Cancer Detection; Epidemiologic Research on Skin Cancer |
| Lim, Chinten James | Cancer progression and metastasis; Solid cancer tumours; Hematological tumours; tumour cell biology; mechanisms of drug resistance; integrin cell adhesion and migration; tumour microenvironment; pediatric oncology |
| Lin, Kuo-Shyan | development of radiotracers for applications in oncology and neuroscience, development of radiolabeled 2-arylbenzothiazoles for imaging amyloid plaques in the brain of Alzheimer's disease patients, development of radiolabeled bioactive molecules for cancer imaging |
| Lockwood, William | Cancer progression and metastasis; Cancer drug development and therapeutics; Mechanisms of carcinogenesis; Cancer; drug discovery; Genetics; genomics; Immune response; Lung cancer; Oncogene signaling; Proteomics; Mouse models |
| Loree, Jonathan | Cancer; Carcinoid tumors |
| Lui, Harvey | lasers; skin disease; psoriasis; dermatology; pigmentary disorders; vitiligo; applied optics; photomedicine; photodynamic therapy, Dermatology, photomedicine, lasers, psoriasis, vitiligo, dermatologic education |
| Marra, Marco | Genomics; Bioinformatics, n.e.c.; Epigenetics and epigenomics; Genetics, n.e.c.; Cancer genetics; Genetics; Epigenomics; Cancer biology |
| 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 |
| Morin, Gregg | Basic medicine and life sciences; Proteomics; mass spectrometry; RNA processing; Ribonucleoproteins; Splicing; Cancer; RNA sequencing |
| Murphy, Rachel | Clinical oncology; Health sciences; Human nutrition and dietetics; Public and population health; Aging; Cancer prevention; Community Health / Public Health; Nutrition; Nutrition and Cancer; Obesity |
| Nelson, Brad | Clinical oncology; Genetic medicine; Cancer immunology and immunotherapy; Cell Therapy of Cancer; Cell therapies; Clinical trials; Oncolytic viruses; T cell engineering |
| Nielsen, Torsten | Clinical oncology; Pathology (except oral pathology); Biomarker development; Breast Cancer; Cancer Diagnosis and Detection; Cancer of the Musculoskeletal System; Clinical trials; Epigenomics; Experimental Therapeutics; Immuno-oncology; Tissue-based diagnostic technologies; Translational research; Genetically engineered mouse models |
| Olson, Robert | Clinical oncology; Clinical trials; Radiotherapy; stereotactic radiotherapy; patient reported outcomes; Head and Neck Cancer; Breast Cancer; Epidemiology; Community Health / Public Health; Social Determinants of Cancer; health services delivery; Lung cancer |
| Ong, Christopher | Prostate cancer growth; Treatment resistance; Cell signalling pathways; SEMA3C |
| Rahmim, Arman | Clinical oncology; Medical physics; Physical sciences; Image Reconstruction; Machine learning and radiomics; medical physics; Molecular imaging; Quantitative Imaging; Theranostics |
| Renouf, Daniel | Developmental Therapeutics; Pancreatic cancer; Colorectal Cancer; Cancer Genomics; Cancer Biomarkers |
| Roskelley, Calvin | Breast cancer, ovarian cancer |
