Medical Biophysics

Aaron Schimmer

Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

Professor, Department of Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

• Campus
  • St. George
• Department
  • Medical Biophysics
  • Medicine

Areas of Expertise

• Acute leukemia
• Apoptosis
• Blood malignancies
• Chemical biology
• Clinical trials
• Drug discovery
• Hematology
• High throughput screening
• Leukemia
• Mitochondria and metabolism
• Stem cells

Office: 416-946-2838
Email: aaron.schimmer@utoronto.ca
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Alastair J. Cunningham

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Department
  • Medical Biophysics
  • Psychiatry

Areas of Expertise

• Group therapy
• Health psychology
• Mind and cancer

Office: 416-946-2943
Home: 416-423-7153
Email: a.cunningham@utoronto.ca
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Bojana Stefanovic

Associate Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Medical Biophysics

Areas of Expertise

• Brain function imaging
• Functional magnetic resonance imaging

Office: 416-480-4104
Website
Email: bojana@sri.utoronto.ca
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David Jaffray

Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

• Campus
  • St. George
• Department
  • Medical Biophysics

Areas of Expertise

• Cancer therapy
• Computed tomography
• Image-guided therapy
• Radiation therapy physics

Office: 416-581-8645
Email: david.jaffray@utoronto.ca
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David Malkin

Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

• Campus
  • St. George
• Department
  • Medical Biophysics
  • Paediatrics
• Centres
  • Institute of Medical Science

Areas of Expertise

• Bone sarcomas (tumors)
• Cancer genetics
• Cancer predisposition
• p53 tumor suppressor gene
• Pediatric oncology
• Tumor suppressor genes

Office: 416-813-5348
Home: 416-638-9327
Email: david.malkin@utoronto.ca
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Emil Pai

Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Biochemistry
  • Medical Biophysics
  • Molecular Genetics

Areas of Expertise

• Enzymes – nature’s catalysts
• Structural Biology
• Structure and function of proteins
• X-ray crystallography

Office: 416-978-7015
Home: 416-236-7002
Languages: German
Email: pai@hera.med.utoronto.ca
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Gil Prive

Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Biochemistry
  • Medical Biophysics

Areas of Expertise

• Membrane proteins
• Protein structure
• X-ray crystallography

Office: 416-581-7541
Languages: French
Email: prive@uhnres.utoronto.ca
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Hai-Ling Cheng

Assistant Professor, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
  • Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Medical Biophysics
  • Pharmaceutical Sciences
• Centres
  • Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering (IBBME)

Areas of Expertise

• Cancer imaging
• MR contrast agents
• Perfusion imaging
• Quantitative MR imaging
• tissue regeneration and engineering

Office: 416 978-4095
Website
Email: hailing.cheng@utoronto.ca
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James Till

Professor Emeritus, Department of Medical Biophysics, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Medical Biophysics

Areas of Expertise

• Open access scholarship

Office: 416-946-2948
Home: 416-481-0982
Email: till@uhnres.utoronto.ca
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Jane Aubin

Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

• Campus
  • St. George
• Department
  • Medical Biophysics
• Centres
  • Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering (IBBME)

Areas of Expertise

• Arthritis
• Mesenchymal stem cells
• Musculoskeletal health
• Osteoporosis
• Regulation of bone formation
• Skeletal development

Office: 416-978-4220
Home: 416-463-4152
Email: jane.aubin@utoronto.ca
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Jason Lerch

Associate Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Medical Biophysics

Areas of Expertise

• Brain plasticity
• Neurodevelopmental disorders
• Neuroscience

Office: 416-813-7654 ext. 309558
Email: jason.lerch@utoronto.ca
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Martin Yaffe

Professor;Tory Family Chair in Cancer

• Campus
  • St. George
• Department
  • Medical Biophysics
  • Medical Imaging

Areas of Expertise

• Breast cancer detection, imaging
• Mammography screening

Office: 416-480-5715
Home: 416-487-8365
Email: martin.yaffe@utoronto.ca
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Matthew Bjerknes

Associate Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Medical Biophysics
  • Medicine

Areas of Expertise

• Epithelium
• Intestine
• Stem cells

Office: 416-978-7788
Email: matthew.bjerknes@utoronto.ca
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Michael Hoffman

Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Computer Science
  • Medical Biophysics

Areas of Expertise

• Bioinformatics
• Cancer biology
• Computational biology
• Genomics
• Machine learning

Office: N/A
Website
Email: michael.hoffman@utoronto.ca
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Michelle Letarte

Professor, Department of Immunology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

• Campus
  • St. George
• Department
  • Immunology
  • Medical Biophysics
  • Paediatrics

Areas of Expertise

• Endoglin
• Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia
• Immunology
• Ovarian cancer
• Protein microarrarys
• Transforming growth factor beta
• Vascular biology

Office: 416-813-6258
Languages: French
Email: michelle.letarte@sickkids.ca
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Milton K. Woo

Assistant Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Department
  • Medical Biophysics
  • Radiation Oncology

Areas of Expertise

• Remote real-time education using the Internet

Office: 416-480-5853
Languages: Cantonese,Mandarin
Email: milton.woo@utoronto.ca
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Thomas Kislinger

Associate Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

Senior Scientist, Princess Margaret Cancer Center

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Medical Biophysics

Areas of Expertise

• Biomarkers
• Cell biology
• Exosomes
• Membrane proteins
• Proteomics

Office: 416-581-7627
Languages: German
Website
Email: thomas.kislinger@utoronto.ca
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