Immunotherapy

Dr. Stephanie Snow MD FRCPC

Appointments: Medical Oncologist, QEII Health Sciences Centre; Associate Professor (anticipated promotion to Full Professor effective July 2023) Dalhousie University; President, Lung Cancer Canada; Vice Chair, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Medical Oncology Examination Committee; Associate Editor, Current Oncology Affiliations: QEII Health Sciences Centre, Dalhousie University Research interests: Lung Cancer, Esophageal Cancer, Gastric Cancer, Colorectal … Read more

Dr. Marya Ahmed, MSc, PhD

Appointments: Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry & Faculty of Sustainable Design and Engineering; BHCRI Assistant Scientific Director, PEI Affiliations: University of Prince Edward Island Research Interests: Biomaterials, Drug delivery, immunotherapy, drug resistant carcinoma, polymer peptide hybrids, nanoparticles, proteomics The use of combination drugs to overcome aggressive, metastatic and resistant cancerous anomalies is a focus of … Read more

Dr. Kimberly Brewer, PhD

Appointments: Research Scientist, Nova Scotia Health Authority Staff Scientist, IWK Health Centre Affiliations: Nova Scotia Health Authority, IWK Health Centre, Biomedical Translational Imaging Centre (BIOTIC) Research Interests: Molecular imaging, cancer immunotherapy, MRI, drug development Using Molecular Imaging for the Development of Novel Cancer Therapeutics There are hundreds of novel cancer therapeutics currently under development in … Read more

Dr. Brent Johnston, PhD

Appointments: Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology Professor, Department of Paediatrics Cross-appointed to Department of Pathology Affiliations: Dalhousie University Research Interests: Mechanisms of immune activation and cell recruitment; adhesion molecules, chemokines, and cytokines; NKT cells  in inflammation and cancer; immunotherapy; oncolytic viruses Stimulating natural immunity against cancer Natural Killer T (NKT) cells are a population of immune … 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