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Conférence de Michael Taylor, MD, PhD, FRCS(C), invité pour l'axe Maladies immunitaires et cancers.
- Professeur, University of Toronto
- Neurochirurgien pédiatrique, Hospital for Sick Children
- Chercheur principal, SickKids Research Institute
Biographie :
Dr. Taylor is The Garron Family Endowed Chair in Childhood Cancer Research at the Hospital for Sick Children, and a paediatric neurosurgeon at SickKids with a special focus on paediatric neuro-oncology. His research interests examine the molecular genetics of medulloblastoma and ependymoma, two of the most common malignant paediatric brain tumours. Dr. Taylor is a principal investigator at The Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumour Research Centre at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), and is a senior researcher in the Developmental & Stem Cell Biology Program at the SickKids Research Institute. He is also a Professor in the Department of Surgery (Neurosurgery) and cross-appointed in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto.
Dr. Taylor was born in Calgary, Alberta and grew up in cities across Canada. Dr. Taylor graduated cum laude from The Faculty of Medicine at The University of Western Ontario. He completed his Neurosurgery residency and a PhD in Molecular Pathology at The University of Toronto. In 2003, Michael was awarded a Detweiler Travelling Fellowship from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada for training in paediatric neurosurgery and paediatric neuro-oncology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis Tennessee. Dr. Taylor also completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Developmental Neurobiology at SJCRH.
Dr. Taylor has published over 200 peer-reviewed publications, many in high impact journals such as Nature, Science, Cell, Cancer Cell, Nature Genetics, Journal of Clinical Oncology and Lancet Oncology. His publications have been cited by other authors >10,000 times. Dr. Taylor has been recognized for his research contributions with numerous awards including the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Gold Medal Award in Surgery, a Canadian Institutes for Health Research’s Clinician Scientist Award, Canada’s Top 40 under 40, and CIHR’s Brainstar Award. His laboratory is funded by awards from Genome Canada, The Terry Fox Research Institute, the National Cancer Institute of Canada, National Institutes of Health – USA, CIHR, Stand Up 2 Cancer, CureSearch, The Cancer Research Society, The Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation, SickKids Foundation, American Brain Tumor Association and B.R.A.I.N.child.
Conférence prononcée en anglais.
