Director of Training Program: Dr. David R. Hampson, http://phm.utoronto.ca/hampson/. Professor in the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy and Director of the University of Toronto Collaborative Program in Neuroscience.  Please email biotherapeutics@utoronto.ca for all inquiries

 

The CIHR Strategic Training Program in Biological Therapeutics is grateful for the support of the following persons and organizations for their participation of the creation of the Program:

Institutional Support

Dr. Wayne Hindmarsh, former Dean of the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, U. of Toronto,

Dr.  Peter Lewis, Vice Dean, Research and International Relations, Faculty of Medicine, U. of Toronto

Dr. Marty Steinbach, Director Visual Systems Research Program at the Toronto Western  Research Institute

Dr. Michael G. Fehlings, Professor of Neurosurgery Toronto Western Hospital and Director U. of Toronto Neuroscience Program 

Dr. Mingtao  Liu, Director International Relations, U. of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine

 

Training Consultants and Experts

Dr. John Cryan, Professor University College Cork, School of Pharmacy, Cork, Ireland

Dr. Jin Tuo,  Professor, Shanghai JiaoTong University School of Pharmacy, Shanghai, China

Dr. Anna Wu, Professor  University of California, Los Angles

Dr. Brian O’Dowd, Professor University of Toronto and Centre of Addiction and Mental Health

Dr. Edward Nemeth, Consultant, formerly Chief Scientific Officer of NPS Pharmaceuticals

Andre Picard, Public Health Reporter for the Globe and Mail

Dr. Nils Jörgen Carlsson, Professor Biomedical Radiation Sciences, Head of the unit of Biomedical Radiation Sciences, Department of Oncology, Radiology and Clinical Immunology, Rudbeck Laboratory, Uppsala University, Sweden

 

Industrial Training Sites in the Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology Industry

ApoPharma Inc. (Innovative Drug Division of Apotex Inc.)

iCo Therapeutics Inc.

Lorus Therapeutics

NoAb Biodiscoveries

Jennerx Inc.

MDS Nordion

YM Biosciences Inc.

Merck Research Laboratories (USA)

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (USA)

Baxter Corporation

GlaxoSmithKline Inc. Canada

 

We look forward to working with our consultants, experts, and industry partners in the training of a new generation of scientists in the development and use of biologically based drugs.

CIHR Strategic Training Program in Biological Therapeutics: Pharmaceutical Partners and Academic Consultants