Appointments: Professor, Dalhousie University Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Division of Anatomical Pathology Research Interests: Neuro-Oncology, Glioma Genetics I am a diagnostic Neuropathologist with research interest in both biobanking and molecular diagnostics of brain tumors. As a Biobanker, I teamed up with Dr. Zhaolin Xu to create the NSHA-Dalhousie Biobank. The QEII Foundation provided … Read more
Appointments: Assistant Professor, Department of Dental Clinical Sciences, Dalhousie University Affiliations: Associate Member, Beatrice Hunter Cancer Research Institute Healthy Populations Institute, Scholar Research Interests: Oral Health, Frailty, Healthy Aging, Chronic Disease in Elderly, Chronic Disease Prevention, Psychosocial Oncology, Cancer Survivorship, Cognitive Decline, Population Health I am interested in cancer survivorship research. To date, I have conducted … Read more
Appointments: Research Scientist, Atlantic PATH; Adjunct Professor, Community Health & Epidemiology, Dalhousie University; Part-time Faculty, Department of Applied Human Nutrition at Mount Saint Vincent University. Affiliations: Dalhousie University, Mount Saint Vincent University Research Interests: Nutrition, health risk factors, obesity, population health, lifestyle behaviours, cancer, chronic disease Lifestyle behaviours and cancer Dr. Declercq’s research interests span … Read more
Appointments: Professor, Departments of Pathology and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; CRTP Co-Chair from 2010-2018; Editor of Cancer Genomics: From Bench to Personalized Medicine Affiliations: Dalhousie University Research Interests: Structure and function of nuclear compartments and bodies and their role in tumour suppression and growth; biomarkers; correlative light and electron microscopy Unlocking the Secrets of the Nucleus … Read more
Appointments: Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, Dalhousie University Research Interests: Peroxisomes, Innate immunity, Immunometabolism, cancer metabolism, Lipid signaling, Stem cells proliferation, Intestinal epithelium integrity and Homeostasis, host pathogens/commensals interaction Cancer cells often alter metabolism to support their malignant phenotype. Despite the advances in research connecting metabolism and cancer, we still do … Read more
Appointments: Associate Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics Affiliations: Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine Research Interests: ion channel and transporters, calcium signalling, autophagy, lysosomes, lysosomal storage disease, cancer, neurodegenerative disease, bacterial infection. My primary research interests include lysosome physiology and lysosome-related diseases. Specifically, we study lysosomal ion channels and transporters in cancer progression, lysosomal storage … Read more
Appointments: Associate Professor, Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies; Faculty of Medicine Affiliations: Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland Research Interests: TGF-beta, signal transduction, cell cycle regulation Transforming growth factor beta converts from a growth inhibitor to a promoter in cancer During the transformation of normal cells to epithelial cancers the main hormone used to … Read more
Appointments: Associate Professor, Immunology & Infectious Diseases Research Group, Division of BioMedical Sciences Affiliations: Memorial University of Newfoundland, Faculty of Medicine Research Interests: Cancer Immunology, Breast Cancer and Autoimmunity Immune Markers and Immune Modulation in Breast Cancer Patients with breast cancer have a better outcome if their tumor cells express certain types of HLA molecules … Read more
Appointments: Assistant Professor, Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University Staff Medical Oncologist, Nova Scotia Cancer Centre Member Cancer Care Nova Scotia Breast and Genitourinary Site Teams Affiliations: Dalhousie University, Faculty of Medicine, Capital Health Research Interests: Mechanisms of carcinogenesis and cancer genetics, development of surrogate markers of cancer diagnosis/progression … Read more
Appointments: Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology; cross-appointed to Department of Pediatrics; cross-appointed to Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Affiliations: Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine, IWK Health Centre, Canadian Centre for Vaccinology, Dalhousie Infectious Disease Research Alliance (DIDRA) Research Interests: membrane proteins; membrane fusion; virology; fusogenic liposomes to deliver liposome-encapsulated cancer therapeutics and vaccines … Read more