Dr. Andrew Stadnyk, PhD

Appointments: Professor of Pediatrics, Microbiology & Immunology and Pathology, Dalhousie University Affiliations: Affiliated staff member at IWK Health Research Interests: Intestinal pathology, intestinal cancer, epithelium, inflammatory bowel disease, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, asparaginase Combining my interests in epithelial cell roles and inflammatory bowel disease, it was a small step to begin to study colon cancer. In … Read more

Dr. Marianne Stanford, PhD

Appointments: Associate Scientific Director, Institute of Infection and Immunity, Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) Adjunct Assistant Professor, Microbiology and Immunology, Dalhousie Affiliations: Member, Vaccine Discovery Group, CCfV Research Interests: Dr. Marianne Stanford has expertise in preclinical research activities and clinical immunology assessment of cancer immunotherapies and infectious disease vaccines. She also serves as adjunct … Read more

Dr. Marc Surette, PhD

Appointments: Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Université de Moncton. Tier II Canada Research Chair for 10 years, followed by 6 years as a New Brunswick Innovation Research Chair. Chair, CIHR operating grant peer-review committee. Affiliations: New Brunswick Centre for Precision Medicine; Adjunct Professor in the Faculté de Médecine at Université Laval Research Interests: … Read more

Dr. Ellen Sweeney, PhD

Appointments: Research Director, Atlantic PATH, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University Affiliations: Associate Member, Beatrice Hunter Cancer Research Institute; Affiliate Scientist, Nova Scotia Health; Scholar, Healthy Populations Institute, Dalhousie University; Adjunct Professor, Department of Community Health and Epidemiology and Interdisciplinary PhD Program, Faculty of Graduate Studies, Dalhousie University Research Interests: Cancer, population health, environmental health, occupational … Read more

Dr. Alasdair Syme, PhD, FCCPM

Appointments: Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Dalhousie University Medical Physicist, Nova Scotia Health Authority Affiliations: Dalhousie University Nova Scotia Health Authority Research Interests: Medical Physics, radiation dosimetry, radiation detection, radionuclide therapy My research interests focus on the application of ionizing radiation to the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Novel radiation detectors This research is … Read more

Dr. Christopher G. Thomas, PhD, MCCPM

Appointments: Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Dalhousie University; Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University; Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, Dalhousie University; Medical Physicist, Nova Scotia Health Authority Affiliations: Dalhousie University Nova Scotia Health Authority Research Interests: Stereotactic radiotherapy, 4pi, medical physics, trajectory optimization, fMRI My research involves optimizing radiotherapy planning … Read more

Dr. Alison Thompson, BSc, PhD

Appointments: Full Professor, and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Pyrrole Chemistry for Chemical Biology and Energy, Faculty of Science Affiliations: Dalhousie University Research Interests: Medicinal chemistry, organic synthesis, inorganic chemistry, biological activities of compounds Organic and medicinal synthetic chemistry enables drug discovery and an understanding of biochemical processes that lead to disease In the Thompson group we pride ourselves … Read more

Dr. John Thoms, MD MSc FRCPC

Appointments: Assistant Professor of Oncology, Memorial University of Newfoundland Radiation Oncology Consultant – Eastern Health Research Interests: Prostate cancer carcinogenesis, biomarkers of treatment response, novel clinical trials, radiation therapy Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men. Radiation therapy is a common and accepted standard treatment option for men with prostate cancer. Yet, a … Read more

Dr. Sandra Turcotte, PhD

Appointments: Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Université de Moncton; BHCRI Assistant Scientific Director, New Brunswick Affiliations: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Université de Moncton; Researcher in residence at Atlantic Cancer Research Institute; Research Chair, Canadian Cancer Society, NB Research Interests: Exploiting synthetic lethality in kidney cancer for the development of anticancer therapy; miRNA profiling … Read more

Dr. Channakeshava S Umeshappa, DVM, MVSc, PhD

Appointments: Canada Research Chair in Human Immunology and Inflammation; Assistant Professor Affiliations: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dalhousie University; Department of Pediatrics, IWK Health Centre Research Interests: Human immunology and inflammation, Cancer, Autoimmunity, Antitumor immunity, T cell- and B cell-mediated adaptive immunity, Precision medicine, Cancer immunotherapy, Nanotechnology-based photoimmuno therapy, Cellular immunotherapy. Research Summary: Chronic diseases such … Read more