Experimental Medicine
Experimental Medicine offers research opportunities in the following specialties: cardiology, cancer biology, dermatology, gastroenterology, hematology/oncology, infectious diseases, molecular medicine, nephrology, neurology, and respiratory medicine. All these fields can involve patients and/or experimental animal models.
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Faculty Members in Experimental Medicine
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Fleetham, John | Sleep disorders, neuromuscular disorders, obstructive sleep apnea, imaging techniques, respiratory muscle function, systemic blood pressure, hypothalamic pituitary function, psychological status, disordered breathing |
| Forbes, Connor | Urology; Other basic medicine and life sciences; Drug discovery, design and delivery; Endourology; Minimally Invasive Surgery; Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia; Kidney stones; Translational research |
| Ford, Nancy | Medical physics; Medical biotechnology diagnostics (including biosensors); Dental materials and equipment; micro-computed tomography; physiological gating; contrast agents; models of respiratory disease; image-based measurements; dental imaging; x-ray imaging |
| Francis, Gordon | lipoproteins; Cholesterol metabolism; Cardiovascular risk factors; Prevention of cardiovascular disease and diabetes; High density lipoproteins (HDL) |
| Garnis, Catherine | Cancer biology; Tumor progression; Oral premalignant lesions; Head and neck cancer; RNA biology, microRNAs; Alternative splicing; Biomarkers |
| Gerrie, Alina | Clinical medicine; Lymphoid Cancer; Leukemia; genomics; Population-based outcomes; Cellular therapy; Quality of life; Survivorship |
| Goerges, Matthias | Electronic health (e-Health); Health information systems (including surveillance); Expert systems technologies in artificial intelligence; Anesthesiology; Medical devices; Human-computer systems and interface; Bio-signal processing and analysis; Digital health; predictive analytics; decision support systems; Critical Care Medicine; Biomedical Technologies; Health Care Technologies; Human Computer Interaction and Design; Medical informatics; Software Development; patient-oriented research; Data sharing / open data |
| Gonzalez-Montaner, Julio Sergio | Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, development of antiretroviral therapies and management strategies |
| Gregory-Evans, Kevin | retina, stem cells, gene therapy, retinitis pigmentosa, macular degeneration, age-related macular degeneration, Stargardt’s disease, Best’s disease, x-linked retinoschisis, electroretinography., Eye, novel molcular approaches in the treatment of retinal disease, cell-based therapeutics ofr age-related macular degenration and retinitis pigmentosa, molecular defects underlying retinal disease |
| Gregory-Evans, Cheryl | Tissue fusion during development, Aniridia, retinal therapeutics |
| Grunau, Brian | Medical, health and life sciences; Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest; Resuscitation; Extracorporeal-CPR |
| Hackett, Tillie-Louise | Molecular determinants of COPD, small airway obstruction, angiotensin signalling, defective airway epithelial differentiation in asthma, human lung cell repository |
| Harriman, David | Kidneys and Urinary System |
| Harris, Kevin | Evidence to Innovation; Preventive Cardiology; Cardiovascular Outcomes; Interventional Pediatric Cardiology |
| Hodgson, Antony | Image guided surgery systems; computer assisted orthopaedic surgery; Medical Imaging; surgical navigation; orthopaedics; biomechanics; surgical robots; Image Processing; Machine Learning |
| Hoffman, Bradford | Understanding how the genes critical to endocrine pancreas development, as well as ?-cell function and proliferation are regulated is essential for the development of novel strategies for the production of insulin-secreting cells, and for improving the efficacy of available transplantable material. |
| Hohl, Corinne | Emergency Medicine; Epidemiology; Pharmacoepidemiology; Health Information Systems; Health Care Organization; Decision Making; Patient Safety; Medication Safety; Adverse Drug Events; Drug safety and effectiveness; Health Information Technology; Clinical Decision Making; Health services research; Adverse Event Reporting |
| Isaac, Kathryn | Surgery; Breast Reconstruction Surgery |
| Janssen, Patricia | Health sciences; Public and population health; Gestation / Parturition; health of marginalized women; Lifestyle Determinants and Health; maternal child health; mobile health for pregnancy and parenting; Perinatal Period; social determinants of health |
| Jiang, Xiaoyan | Cancer drug development and therapeutics |
| Johnson, Kate | Health care effectiveness and outcomes; Health economics; Health outcomes; Epidemiology |
| Ju, Myeong Jin | Medical and biomedical engineering; algorithms for quantitatively imaging biological dynamics in human retina; cellular resolution functional retinal imaging systems; Medical Imaging; optical imaging systems; signal processing algorithms |
| Kalia, Sunil | Skin Cancer; Optics and Photonics; Skin Disorders; Epidemiology; optics; photobiology; dermatoepidemiology; Cancer |
| Karsan, Aly | Hematological tumours; Cancer molecular targets; Leukemia; Hematopoiesis; Genomics and epigenomics; Noncoding RNAs; Aging |
| Kastrukoff, Lorne | MS; human immunology and multiple sclerosis particularly T-cell responses and most recently NK or natural killer cell responses |
| Kelleher, Dermot | immune response to many of the leading causes of gastrointestinal infectious disease worldwide |
| Keown, Paul Anthony | immune response in transplantation and autoimmune disease, and ranges from molecular genetics to healthcare economics |
| Keramatian, Kamyar | early intervention in bipolar disorder, Mental Health & Addictions |
| Kieffer, Tim | Diabetes |
| Kissoon, Niranjan | Sepsis and critical care |
| Kobor, Michael | Biochemistry; Bioinformatics; Genetic medicine; Genomics; Chromatin Biology; Epigenetics; molecular biology; Social Epigenetics |
| Kolind, Shannon | Medical physics; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; brain; Imaging; MRI; medical physics; multiple sclerosis; myelin; Neurological Disease; spinal cord |
| Kopp, Janel | Genomics; Modeling cancer; Pancreas; Pancreatic cancer; Pancreatic development |
| Krahn, Andrew | management of cardiac arrhythmias; investigation of genetic causes of arrhythmias, causes of loss of consciousness and implantable arrhythmia device monitoring |
| Krassioukov, Andrei | Other clinical medicine; spinal cord injury, autonomic nervous system, electrophysiology, rehabilitation |
| Krausz, Reinhard | addiction, complex concurrent disorders, E -Mental Health, Internet based healthcare, vulnerable urban populaton, Psychosis, opiate addiction, e-mental health, internet based healthcare, vulnerbale urban population, trauma, homelessness and mental health |
| Krystal, Gerald | Blood research, immunology, inflammation, effect of diet on cancer |
| Kuchenbauer, Florian | stem cell transplantation; translational leukemia research; treatment of patients with hematological diseases; physiology of normal and malignant hematopoiesis |
| Lacaille, Diane | General internal, Arthritis & Joint Health |
| Lack, Nathan | late-stage prostate cancer |
| Lallous, Nada | Cancer drug development and therapeutics; Cancer progression and metastasis; Cancer molecular targets; Biochemistry; Biophysics; Cancer biology; Therapeutics; Protein research; Drug resistance; transcription factors |
| Lam, Stephen C | Lung cancer, optical imaging, tomography, spectroscopy |
| Lange, Dirk | Ureteral stents; antifouling coatings; antimicrobial coatings; device complications |
| Lavoie, Pascal | Neonatal Immunity, Infection/Inflammation, Inheritance/Genetics of Neonatal Morbidities, Neonatal Chronic Lung Disease |
| Law, Michael | Health care administration; Health sciences; Public and population health; Global Health; Global Health and Emerging Diseases; Health Policies; Health Policy; Observational studies; Pharmaceutical policy; Pharmacoeconomics; Pharmacoepidemiology; Program evaluation |
| Lehman, Anna Michelle | Genetic medicine; Inherited Metabolic Diseases; Genes and Gene Therapy; Genetic causes of rare diseases; Genomic sequencing and variant interpretation; Neurodegenerative disorders; Cardiogenetics; Adams-Oliver syndrome |
| Leipsic, Jonathon | Diagnostic performance and radiation reduction as well as CT to guide minimally invasive valve intervention |
| Lester, Richard | Infectious diseases; Digital health; Mobile health (mHealth); Precision Public Health; Patient-centered care; Global Health |
| Leung, Janice | |
| Levin, Adeera | Hypertension/Renal Transplantation; Medical Education; Outcome/Evaluation Method Applied to Renal Patients |
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