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Pillar leads
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Dr. Megan Levings
Professor, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, UBC;
Investigator, BC Children’s Hospital;
Director, Childhood Diseases Research Theme
Bio
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Dr. Peter Zandstra
Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering and Michael Smith Laboratories, Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Applied Sciences, UBC;
Chief Scientific Officer, Centre for the Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine (CCRM);
Chief Scientific Officer, Notch Therapeutics
Bio
International Scientific Advisory Committee
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Dr. Harold Atkins, University of Ottawa (Chair)
Research interests: Stem cell transplantation for the treatment of autoimmune diseases (MS), stem cell transplantation for organ graft tolerance, immunotherapy of hematologic malignancies, cancer virotherapy
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Dr. Amit Bar-Or, University of Pennsylvania
Research interests: Human immune-monitoring and immune regulation studies, precision medicine in MS and other autoimmune and CNS-inflammatory diseases
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Dr. Jeffery Hubbell, The University of Chicago
Research interests: Immunotherapy, immune response, auto-immune diseases, growth factor variants
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Dr. Jiwon Oh, University of Toronto
Research interests: MRI biomarkers with clinical utility in prognostication and disease monitoring, cohort studies (MS)
Bio
Steering Committee
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Dr. Shelly Au
Associate Director, Research Programs and Administration, Faculty of Medicine
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Erin Bartlett
Director, Development and Alumni Engagement, Faculty of Medicine
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Dr. Virginia Devonshire
Director of the UBC MS/NMO Clinic, Vancouver Coastal Health; Clinical Associate Professor, Division of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine
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Dr. Vinay Dhingra
Co-Senior Medical Director, Vancouver Acute, Vancouver General Hospital; Clinical Professor, Critical Care and Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine
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Dr. Megan Levings
Professor, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine
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Dr. Robert McMaster
Vice Dean, Research, Faculty of Medicine; Professor, Department of Medical Genetics
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Dr. Erik Pioro
Professor, Division of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine; ALS Society of BC Professorship in ALS Research
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Dr. Lynn Raymond
Director, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, Faculty of Medicine; Professor, Department of Psychiatry
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Dr. Dean Regier
Associate Director, Academy of Translational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine; Associate Professor, School of Population and Public Health
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Dr. Anthony Traboulsee
Professor, Division of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine; MS Society of Canada Research Chair
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Dr. Michelle Wong
Senior Director, Research, Faculty of Medicine; Executive Director, Canada’s Immuno-Engineering and Biomanufacturing Hub
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Dr. Peter Zandstra
Professor and Director, School of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Applied Sciences