Faculty Research

Faculty Index

Note to Graduate Applicants

The Medical Sciences program is divided into five program areas, primarily for administrative purposes. In many cases, individual faculty member's research is not limited to one area so we would like to provide you with more comprehensive information regarding their research interests.

Each individual faculty member's page indicates which program area they belong to, and the Keyword Search tab will allow you to look for the keywords in the individual pages.

A green flag at the right-hand side of the table indicates that the faculty member is actively recruiting graduate students at this time. While the absence of the green flag doesn't mean that you cannot inquire with them regarding their research and potential of supervision, we do recommend that you contact faculty members that indicated their availability as graduate supervisors first.

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Name	Research Focus	Accepting New Students
Adachi, Jonathan D.	Osteoporosis, Osteoarthritis,MRI, pQCT, Quality of Life, Dual Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry
Al-Nedawi, Khalid	Cancer progression, intercellular communication, extracellular vesicles, oncogene, tumor suppressors, angiogenesis, biomarkers and diagnostics, kidney transplant
Anvari, Mehran	Surgical Outcomes, Benign and Malignant Gastrointestinal Disorders, Gastrointestinal Motor Function
Ashkar, Ali	Innate Immunity, NK/NKT cells, IL-15, Mucosal Immunity, Toll-like Receptors, dsRNA, Tumor, Stem Cell Transplantation
Ask, Kjetil	Transgenic mouse models for cancer and development; Oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes; Cell cycle regulation of mammalian cells; Function of telomeres; Viral vectors for human cancer therapy; Genetics and cytogenetics of human cancer; Gene therapy; Growth factor and cytokine signaling pathways; Genetics of hemoglobinopathies; Protein targeting; Regulation of gene expression; Mechanism of viral infection
Atkinson, Stephanie	Developmental Programming; Perinatal Nutrition; Metabolic development and skeletal growth in children; Clinical Trials
Austin, Richard	Hyperhomocysteinemia, Atherosclerosis, Cancer, Differential Gene Expression,Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress

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Name	Research Focus	Accepting New Students
Ball, Alexander K.	Factors responsible for the death of injured cells in the retina of the eye
Bane, Anita	Stem Cells, Famililial Breast Cancer, Biomarkers, Radiation Therapy
Beattie, Karen	Clinical research, Patient reported outcomes, Imaging, Disease activity, Rheumatology, Rheumatoid arthritis, Osteoarthritis, Lupus, Cohort study, Cross-sectional study, Longitudinal study
Bercik, Premysl	Microbiota-gut-brain interactions, microbiota-neuro-immune interactions, Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Bienenstock, John	Mast Cells, Neuro-Immune, Mucosal Immunity, Probiotics, Behaviour
Boreham, Doug
Bourgeois, Jacqueline
Bowdish, Dawn	Macrophages and macrophage receptor expression in health and disease, immunomodulation, immunophenotyping, drug discovery, mycobacterial and pneumococcal disease.
Bramson, Jonathan	T lymphocyte, Genetic Vaccine, Gene Therapy, Virus, Cancer, Flow Cytometry
Bridgewater, Darren	ß-catenin, Kidney Development, Glomerular Disease, SIOD
Burrows, Lori	Microbiology, Bacteria, Antibiotic resistance, Biofilms, Pseudomonas, Motility, Adherence, Type IV pili

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Name	Research Focus	Accepting New Students
Chan, Anthony	Thrombosis, Hemostasis, Development, Coagulation, Kinetics, Mechanism, Pediatric
Collins, Stephen M.	Gastroenterology, Gut Micobiome, Gut-brain Interactions, Inflammatory, Irritable Bowel Disorders
Cox, Gerard P.	Inflammation, Nerves, Bacteria, Gastrointestinal Disease, Neuroimmunology, Probiotics

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D

 

Name	Research Focus	Accepting New Students
Denburg, Judah A.	Eosinophils, Basophils, Hemopoiesis, Allergic Inflammation, Allergic Disease, Autoimmune Disease, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
De Souza, Russell
Dickhout, Jeffrey	Kindey desease, renal fibrosis, inflammation, chronic kidney disease
Doering, Laurie C.	Tissue culture, transplantation of stem cells into the CNS, immunocytochemistry, fluorescence and confocal microscopy.
Dolovich, Myrna B.	Aerosols, Asthma, COPD, Dry Powder Inhalers, Inhalation Systems, Lung Deposition, Positron Emission Tomography, Radioaerosols, Scintigraphic Imaging, Simulation
Duivenvoorden, Helga	Prostate, Cancer, Bone, Metastasis, Kallikrein, Matrix Metalloproteinase

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Name	Research Focus	Accepting New Students

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Name	Research Focus	Accepting New Students
Fahnestock, Margaret	Molecular Neurobiology
Foley Ronan S.	Gene Transfer, Dendritic Cells, Adenoviral Gene Transfer, Cytokines, Stem Cells, Clinical Trials
Forsythe, Paul
Foster, Warren G.	Endometriosis, Ovarian Regulation, Infertility,Cell Culture, Reproductive and Endocrine Toxicology, Pharmacology, and Natural Health Products
Fox-Robichaud, Alison	Inflammation, Sepsis, Liver, Endothelium, Adhesion molecules, Cytokines, Oxidative Stress

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Name	Research Focus	Accepting New Students
Gauvreau, Gail M.	Allergic Asthma, Airway Physiology, Clinical Trials, Inflammation, Progenitor Cells, Molecular Biology
Ghert, Michelle	Bone tumours, metastasis, bone degradation, primary cell cultures, siRNA, Multiplex protein detection
Gross, Peter	Intravital microscopy, Mouse Models, Platelets, Coagulation Factors, Thrombosis, Hemostasis
Gupta, Radhey	Drug-Resistance, Molecular, Heat-shock, Proteins, Evolution, Mitochondria

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Name	Research Focus	Accepting New Students
Hassell John A.	Transcription, Oncogenesis, Breast Cancer, Ets Transcription Factors, Transgenic and Knockout Mice, DNA Microarrays
Hawke, Thomas	Muscle regeneration, Muscle growth and adaptation, Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes, Muscle satellite (stem) cells, limb girdle muscular dystrophies
Hayward, Catherine	Platelets, Endothelial Cells, Cell Adhesion, Protein Sorting & Secretion, Multimerin, Factor V, Inherited Platelet Disorders, Hemostasis
Hirota, Jeremy	Respiratory mucosal immunology, environmental exposures, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cystic fibrosis, airway epithelial cells, ATP Binding Cassette (ABC) Transporters commercialization of research, science communication.
Hirte, Hal	Ovarian Carcinoma, Ascites, Growth Factors, Metastasis, Signal Transduction, Cancer
Holbrook, Anne	Therapeutics, Pharmacoepidemiology, Electronic Health Records, Decision-Making, Appropriateness of Prescribing, Practice Guidelines, Medications
Holloway, Alison C.	Fetal Origins of Adult Disease, Environmental Contaminants, Obesity,Type 2 Diabetes, Infertility, Endocrine Toxicology
Huizinga, Jan	Smooth Muscle, Electrophysiology, Patch Clamp, PCR, Single Cell PCR, Intestinal Motility, Molecular Biology, Gastrointestinal Pharmacology, Intercellular Communication, Pacemaker Systems, Ion Channel Activity, Inflammation
Hynes, Alexander	Bacteriophages (bacterial viruses) and their role in shaping the human gut microbiome

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Name	Research Focus	Accepting New Students
Igdoura, Suleiman	Sialidosis, Tay-Sachs, Adenovirus, Sialidase, Mouse Models, Human Genetics, Mutations, Promoters, Gene Therapy
Inman, Mark D.	Asthma, Physiology, Morphology, Lung, Inflammation, Morphometry, Airway Hyperresponsiveness, Bone Marrow, Hematopoiesis

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Name	Research Focus	Accepting New Students
Janssen, Luke J.	Airway Smooth Muscle, Pulmonary Vasculature, Inflammation, Asthma, Hypertension, Ca2+, Contraction/Relaxation, Signal Transduction, Ion Channels
Jordana, Manel	Allergic Inflammation, Asthma, Peanut-induced Anaphylaxis, Immune Regulation, Cytokines, Chemokines, Co-stimulatory Molecule

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Name	Research Focus	Accepting New Students
Kaushic, Charu	Mucosal Immunology, Female Genital Tract, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Sex Hormones, HIV, Vaccines
Kavsak, Peter	Clinical Chemistry, Cardiac Biomarkers, Cancer Biomarkers
Kelton, John	Platelet Activation, Thrombocytopenia, HIT, Atherosclerosis, Adhesion Molecules
Khan, Waliul	Mucosal Immunity, Host Defense, T Cells, Cytokines, Chemokines, Enteroendocrine Cells, Goblet Cells, Enteric Infection, Inflammation
Killian, Kieran J.	Physiology of Respiration, Exercise Performance, Symptoms
Kim, Paul	Fibrinolysis, Coagulation, Fibrinogen, Plasminogen, TAFI, Protein C, Platelets, Prothrombin, Factor V(a), Enzymology
Kolb, Martin	Lung Fibrosis,Tissue Repair, GeneTherapy, Small Animal Imaging, Drug Trials, Clinical Research
Kretz, Colin	Bleeding disorders & cardiovascular disease, high throughput screening, phage display and next generation sequencing, protein identification, structure/function of proteases and their substrates.
Krepinsky, Joan	Hypertensive kidney disease, Diabetic kidney disease, Matrix Upregulation, Mesangial cell signaling
Kunze, Wolfgang	Gut-brain neurophysiology and sensory processing in health, disease and aging

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Name	Research Focus	Accepting New Students
Labiris, N. Renée	Molecular imaging, Lung Imaging, Drug Targeting in the lung, Positron Emission Tomography, Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography, X-ray Computed Tomography, Aerosolized Drug Formulations, Pharmacokinetics, Pulmonary Pharmacology
Larché, Margaret	Rheumatoid arthritis, Ultrasound Imaging, Systemic sclerosis, fibrosis
Larché, Mark	Immunology, Immunotherapy, T cell, Epitope, Peptide, Vaccine, Allergy, Asthma, Autoimmunity, Transplantation, Translational medicine
Leber, Brian F.	B Lymphocyte, Antibody, Autoantibody, Leukemia, Apoptosis, Differentiation, Myelopoiesis, Chemotherapy
Li, Chumei
Liaw, Patricia	Activated Pprotein C, Sepsis, Chemotherapy, Vascular Biology, Inflammation, Coagulation, Apoptosis, Monocytes, Endothelium, Endothelial Protein C Receptor, Thrombomodulin
Lichty, Brian	Vesicular Stomatitis Virus, Coronavirus, Cancer, Myeloma, Interferon
Lobb, Derek K.	Ovary, Testis, Growth-Factors, Relaxin, Cervix, Ovarian Cancer

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Name	Research Focus	Accepting New Students
MacNeil, Lesley
Mahony, James B.	Infectious Diseases, Chlamydia Pneumoniae, Virology, Atherosclerosis, Pathophysiology, Gene Expression, SARS, West Nile Virus
Margetts, Peter J.	Adenovirus, Fibrosis, Angiogenesis, Gene Therapy, Laser Capture Microdissection, Gene Regulation, Renal Disease, Peritoneal Dialysis
Mazurek, Michael F.	Neural signalling in the basal ganglia and cerebral cortex
Meyre, David	Genetic epidemiology, obesity, type 2 diabetes, gene identification, high-throughput genotyping, next generation sequencing, physiopathology, gene x environment interactions, ethnic diversity, pharmacogenetics, disease prediction, personalized prevention, genomic medicine
Mishra, Ram K.	Gene Expression, Mental and Neurological Disorders, cDNA Expression Array, Antipsychotic Drugs, Signal Transduction in Brain and Retina, Dopamine Receptors and Binding Proteins
Morrison, Katherine	Obesity, cardiometabolic health, adiposity, lipid disorders, clinical practice guideline
Mossman, Karen	Virus Pathogenesis, Interferon, Immune Evasion, Signal Transduction, Tissue Culture, Gene Therapy, Cancer Therapy, Oncolytic Viruses

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Name	Research Focus	Accept New Students
Nair, Parameswaran	Asthma, Airway Inflammation, Sputum cell counts, Airway smooth muscle, Migration, Cysteinyl leukotrienes
Nazy, Ishac	Immune-mediated platelet disorders, Platelet activation, Immune thrombocytopenia, Platelet receptors, Immune response
Neighbour, Helen	Asthma and allergic airways disease
Niles, Lennard P.	Molecular neuropharmacology, Melatonin receptors, Gene expression, Neuroprotection, Epigenetic mechanisms

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Name	Research Focus	Accepting New Students
Obeid, Joyce	Pediatrics, Exercise Medicine, Physical activity, Exercise immunology, Natural killer cells, Accelerometers, Movement
O'Byrne, Paul M.	Asthma, Airway Hyperresponsiveness, Airway Inflammation Eicosanoids, Cytokines

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Name	Research Focus	Accepting New Students
Papaioannou, Alexandra	Osteoporosis & Fracture; Cystic Fibrosis & Osteo; Clinical Trials; Falls; Bone Density; Quality of Life; Aging; Long-Term Care; Pharmacology; Appropriate Prescribing
Paré, Guillaume	genetic and molecular epidemiology of cardiovascular disease.
Phillips, Stuart	Human, Skeletal Muscle, Protein Turnover, Protein Synthesis, Proteasome, Hypertrophy, Atrophy, Muscle Wasting, Sarcopenia
Pinthus, Jehonathan
Potter, Murray A.	Microencapsulation, artificial cell, tissue engineering, gene therapy, enzyme replacement therapy, lysosomal storage disorders, fusion protein, tandem mass spectrometry, GC-MS, LC-MS

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Name	Research Focus	Accepting New Students

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Name	Research Focus	Accepting New Students
Raha, Sandeep	Mitochondria, Intracellular Signaling, Aging, Obesity, Hypoxia, Cell Culture, Skeletal Muscle, Cardiovascular, Apoptosis, Diagnostics, Oxidative Stress, Respiratory Chain Enzymes
Ratcliffe, Elyanne M.	Investigations of normal and abnormal development of the extrinsic innervation of the gut.
Rathbone, Michael P.	Regulation of cell growth, differentiation and survival, particularly in the nervous system, in health and disease
Richards, Carl D.	Chronic Inflammation, Cytokines, Arthritis, Asthma, Atherosclerosis, Adenovirus
Rosebush, Patricia
Rosenthal, Kenneth L.	Mucosal Immunity, Mucosal Vaccination, Recombinant Adenovirus Vectors, CpG DNA, Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV), Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte (CTL), Chemokines
Rullo, Anthony	Chemical biology, Chemical immunology, Synthetic tumor immunotherapy, Immune receptor and antibody covalent labeling, Superselective therapeutic targeting

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Name	Research Focus	Accepting New Students
Samaan, M. Constantine	Immunometabolism, childhood obesity, Pediatric Endocrinology, type 2 diabetes, inflammation, metabolism, cytokines, translational research
Samaan, Zainab
Schertzer, Jonathan	Immunometabolism, Diabetes, Obesity, Microbiome, Inflammation, Insulin
Sehmi, Roma	Asthma Pathology, Allergic Inflammation, Tissue Eosinophilia, Eosinophilia, Eosinophil Progenitor Cells, Hemopoiesis, Cell Migration and Traffic, Bone Marrow, Eosinophils
Schulman, Sam	Clinical studies on thromboembolism/ bleeding. Observational and rendomized controlled studies
Sheardown, Heather	Polymeric Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering, Wound Healing, Surface Modification, Cornea, Vascular
Sheffield, William	Hemostastis, Thrombosis, Coagulation, Mutagenesis, Recombinant Proteins, Plasma Proteins
Singh, Gurmit	Mitochondria, Reactive Oxygen Species, Stress Signal Pathway, Bone Metastasis, Matrix Metalloproteinases, Photodynamic Therapy
Sloboda, Deborah	Perinatal programming, Reproduction, Metabolism, Early life origins, Maternal microbiome, Obesity
Smaill, Fiona	HIV Infection, Infectious Diseases, Diagnostic Microbiology, Meta-Analyses, Pregnancy
Stacey, Michael
Stämpfli, Martin R.	COPD, Asthma, Immunology, Tolerance, Experimental Research
Stearns, Jennifer	Microbial Succession of the Infant Micorobiome
Steinberg, Greg	Insulin resistance, Obesity, Cytokines, Inflammation, Lipid metabolism, Exercise

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Name	Research Focus	Accepting New Students
Tang, Damu	Apoptosis, Tumor Suppressors (pTEN, p14ARF), DNA Damage, Erk Activation
Tarnopolsky, Mark	Mitochondria, Estradiol, Muscle Damage, Apoptosis, Inflammation, Skeletal, Muscle, Exercise, Neuromuscular Disorders, Aging, Corticosteroids
Teo, Koon
Timmons, Brian	Children and Adolescents, Physical Activity and Exercise, Health and Disease, Inflammation, Energy Metabolism, Nutrition
Trigatti, Bernardo	Atherosclerosis, Cardiovascular Disease, Glycosylation, Inflammation, Knockout, Lipoprotein, Mouse Genetics,Transgenic, Vascular Biology
Tsakiridis, Theos	Cancer Biology, Radiation Biology, Tumor Biomarkers, Growth Factor Signal Transduction, Tumor Radiation Sensitizers, Targeted therapy

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Name	Research Focus	Accepting New Students

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Name	Research Focus	Accepting New Students
Van Ameringen, Michael	Anxiety disorders, ADHA, Problematic internet use, Psychopharmacology, Treatment resistance.
Verdu, Elena	Intestinal microbiota and gut barrier, celiac disease, inflammatory bowel disease. Diet-microbiota interactions in chronic intestinal disorders

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Name	Research Focus	Accepting New Students
Wan, Yonghong	Dendritic Cells, Tumor Immunology, Cancer Vaccines, T Cells, Gene Therapy, Genetic Immunization, Adenovirus
Waye, John S.	Thalassemia, Sickle Cell Disease, Smith-Lemli-Opitz Syndrome, Metachromatic Leukodystrophy, Forensic Identity Testing
Weitz, Jeffrey	Coagulation, Fibrinolysis, Thrombin, Thrombosis, Anticoagulants, Mutagenesis, Recombinant Proteins
Werstuck, Geoff	Diabetes Mellitus, Atherosclerosis, Obesity, Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress, Lipid Metabolism, Inflammation
West-Mays, Judy	Eye, Development, Transgenic Mice, AP-2 Transcription Factor, Cataract, Lens, Retina
Whyte, Peter	Cell Cycle, Tumour Suppressor Genes, Cancer

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Name	Research Focus	Accepting New Students
Xing, Zhou	Mucosal immunity, T cell activation, antigen presenting cells, infectious disease, genetic vaccine development, tuberculosis, flu viral infection

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Name	Research Focus	Accepting New Students
Yusuf, Salim	Epidemiology, Cardiovascular Disease, Ethnicity, Clinical Trials

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Name	Research Focus	Accepting New Students