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Jorge Filmus, PhD
Senior scientist
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
2075 Bayview Ave., Room S2 20
Toronto, ON
M4N 3M5
Phone: 416-480-6100 ext. 63350
Fax: 416-480-5703
Email: jorge.filmus@sri.utoronto.ca
Administrative Assistant: Cassandra Cheng
Phone: 416-480-6100 ext. 63537
Email: cassandra.cheng@sunnybrook.ca
Education:
- M.Sc., 1979, clinical biochemistry, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
- PhD, 1983, biological chemistry, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Appointments and Affiliations:
- Senior scientist, Biological Sciences, Odette Cancer Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute
- Professor, department of medical biophysics, University of Toronto
Research Foci:
- Tumour biology
- Developmental biology
- Cell biology
- Molecular biology
- Signal transduction
Research Summary:
Dr. Filmus' research activities focus on the diagnosis and treatment of liver cancer, and the role of glypicans in inherited disorders and cancer.
Selected Publications:
See current publications list at PubMed.
Related News and Stories:
- National agency recognizes scientific excellence at Sunnybrook Research Institute: Scientists score high with multimillion-dollar funding investment (Oct. 13, 2015)
- Sunnybrook molecular biologists get funds for cancer research: Two cancer scientists at SRI have been awarded grants from CIHR (Aug. 26, 2009)
- Cited! (SRI Magazine, 2008)
- Spring Up: Eleven SRI researchers are recognized by a quartet of funding bodies (June 3, 2008)
- Gene’s function in regulating body size helps inform new cancer treatments: Findings of how loss of the glypican-3 gene induces overgrowth has implications for novel cancer therapies (May 13, 2008)
- Summer of science at Sunnybrook Research Institute: Four students honoured at 2006 Best Summer Research Project Competition (Sept. 11, 2006)
- Competition for CIHR funding grows: Canadian Institutes of Health Research awards Sunnybrook scientists $2.6 million (March 2, 2006)
- Funding promising research: Canadian Cancer Society grants six SRI scientists awards for new treatment, detection and quality of life research (Oct. 28, 2005)
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