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James Lacefield PhD. PEng.

Professor, Professor, Departments of Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Medical Biophysics, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University. Director, School of Biomedical Engineering.

Research Interests / Specializations: Pre-clinical research; Ultrasound imaging; Translational research; mathematical oncology

David Laidley. MD. FRCPC.

Associate Professor, Department of Medical Imaging, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University. Director, Nuclear Medicine Residency Program. Clinical Nuclear Physician, London Health Sciences Centre.

Research Interests / Specializations: Radioligand Therapy,

Peeyush Lala. MD. PhD. Dsc (honoris causa).

Professor-Emeritus (active), Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology and Oncology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University. Fellow, American Association of Anatomy.

Research Interests / Specializations: Breast Cancer; Cellular and molecular mechanisms of metastasis; Cancer stem cells; Translational research

Pencilla Lang BEnd. MD. PhD. FRCPC.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Oncology, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University. Radiation Oncologist, Verspeeten Family Cancer Centre, London Health Sciences Centre.

Research Interests / Specializations: Clinical: specializing in head and neck, sarcoma, and lungs. Research interests: translational imaging, predictive modelling, applications of AI to oncology, clinical trials and quality of life.

Ting Lee PhD. FCCPM.

Professor, Departments of Medical Biophysics, Medical Imaging and Oncology. Scientist and Director, PET/CT Research at Lawson Research Institute at St. Joseph's. Medical Physicist, St. Joseph's Health Care London.Scientist, Robarts Research Institute.

Research Interests / Specializations: Quantitative molecular and functional with PET and CT, Machine learning to enhance and assist quantitative imaging.

John Lenehan MD. FRCPC. PEng.

Associate Professor, Department of Oncology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University. Medical Oncologist, Verspeeten Family Cancer Centre. Clinician-Scientist, London Health Sciences Research Institute.

Research Interests / Specializations: Clinician: GI and Melanoma. Research: Immunotherapy, Fecal Microbiome Transplant, Pancreatic Cancer

Shawn Li PhD.

Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University. Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Molecular and Epigenetic Basis of Cancer.

Research Interests / Specializations: Cancer mechanisms; Signal transduction; Proteomics; Novel cancer therapeutics

David Litchfield PhD.

Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Oncology, and Director Research Infrastructure, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University.

Research Interests / Specializations: Precision Oncology, Protein kinase inhibitors, Signal Transduction, Biomarker identification and characterization, Functional proteomics, Phosphoproteomics, Translational Research

Dan Lizotte PhD.

Associate Professor, Departments of Computer Science and Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Western University.

Research Interests / Specializations: Machine Learning; Sequential Decision-Making; Biostatistics; Causal Inference; Professor Lizotte's research aims to adapt and improve reinforcement learning, machine learning, and statistical techniques so they can be applied to new sources of medical data, and can in turn provide clinicians with the best available evidence for non-myopic medical decision making. He is particularly interested in problems involving multiple outcomes, causal inference, and outlier detection.

Michael Lock MD. FRCPC.

Professor, Department of Oncology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University. Radiation Oncologist, Verspeeten Family Cancer Centre, London Health Sciences Centre. Associate Scientist, Lawson Research Institute at St. Joseph's Health Care London.

Research Interests / Specializations: Signal transduction; Functional proteomics; Protein kinase inhibitors; Biomarker identification & characterization; Cell proliferation & survival; Translational research

Ana Lohmann MD. PhD.

Assistant Professor, Department of Oncology, Shulich School of Dentistry and Dentistry. Medical Oncologist, Verspeeten Family Cancer Centre, London Health Sciences Centre. Associate Scientist, London Health Sciences Research Institute.

Research Interests / Specializations: Clinical: Gynecological and Breast Cancers. Research Interests: Breast Cancer, Obesity and Liquid Biopsy.

Kun Ping Lu MD, PhD.

Professor, Western Research Chair in Biotherapeutics, Department of Biochemistry, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, and Scientist, Robarts Research Institute, Western University.

Research Interests / Specializations: Pin1 inhibitors to turn immunologically cold tumors hot for eradicating cancers

Len Luyt PhD.

Professor, Departments of Chemistry, Oncology, and Medical Imaging. Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University. Scientist, Cancer Research Laboratory Program, London Health Sciences Research Institute.

Research Interests / Specializations: Peptide Chemistry, Radiochemistry; Novel molecular imaging agents; PET imaging

Maria MacDonald MD. FRCPC.

Assistant Professor, Department of Oncology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry. Director, Adult Neuro-Oncology Neurofibromatosis Clinic. Neuro-Oncologist, Verspeeten Family Cancer Centre, London Health Sciences Centre.

Research Interests / Specializations: Neuro-oncology and Neurofibromatosis.

John H. MacFarlane

President & CEO, London Health Sciences Foundation.

Allison Maciver MD. MSc. FRCSC.

Assistant Professor, Departments of Surgery, and Oncology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University. General Surgeon and Surgical Oncologist, London Health Sciences Centre.

Research Interests / Specializations: Knowledge translation and patient outcomes in breast, melanoma, sarcoma, and gastric cancers.

Saman Maleki PhD.

Assistant Professor, Departments of Oncology, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and Medical Biophysics. Principal Scientist, London Health Sciences Research Institute. Scientist, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research.

Research Interests / Specializations: Tumor Immunologist and Cancer Biologist. Focused on understanding how to sensitize hard-to-treat cancers to immunotherapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors.

Sarah Mattonen PhD.

Assistant Professor, Departments of Medical Biophysics, Oncology, and Biomedical Engineering, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University. Chair, Gerald C. Baines Research Chair for Translational Cancer Imaging, London Health Sciences Centre. Scientist, London Health Sciences Research Institute.

Research Interests / Specializations: Cancer Imaging, Medical Image Analysis, Radiomics, Machine Learning, Translational Research.

Richard McClelland

Manager, Cancer Research Operations, London Health Sciences Centre.

Research Interests / Specializations: Cancer Clinical Research Unit

John McCormick PhD.

Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Western University. Scientist and Member, Canadian Research and Development Centre for Probiotics, Lawson Research Institute at St.Joseph's Health Care. Member, Centre for Human Immunology, Western University.

Research Interests / Specializations: Bacterial exotoxins, protein engineering, immunotherapeutics, tumour-targeted superantigens

Jacob McGee MD. MPH. FRCSC.

Associate Professor, Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Oncology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University. General Surgeon and Surgical Oncologist, London Health Sciences Centre. Associate Scientist, Lawson Research Institute at St. Joseph's Health Care London. ICES Scientist, Western University.

Research Interests / Specializations: Optimizing tumor testing capabilities for the identification of genetic mutations associated with the development of gynecologic malignancies.

Lucas Mendez MD. MSc. DRCPSC.

Associate Professor, Department of Oncology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University. Radiation Oncologist, Verspeeten Family Cancer Centre, London Health Sciences Centre.

Research Interests / Specializations: Clinical and translational research projects involving brachytherapy in gynaecological and genitourinary cancers.

Karen Metcalfe

Assistant Director, WE-SPARK Health Institute.

Donna Murrell PhD. MSc. MCCPM.

PhD. Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics, and Oncology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University. Medical Physicist, Verspeeten Family Cancer Centre. Clinician-Scientist, London Health Sciences Research Institute.

Research Interests / Specializations: Radiation oncology physics, imaging, cellular MRI, 3D printing.

Joe Mymryk PhD.

Distinguished Professor, Departments of Oncology, Microbiology & Immunology and Otalaryngology; Distinguished Oncology Scientist, Verspeeten Family Cancer Centre, London Health Sciences Centre. Scientist, London Health Sciences Research Institute.

Research Interests / Specializations: Tumour Viruses; Head & Neck Cancers induced by HPV; Gastric Cancers induced by EBV; Epigenetics; Translational Research.

Krista Naccarato BSc. BEd. CCRP.

Manager, Oncology Informatics, Windsor Regional Hospital.

Timothy Nguyen MD. FRCPC.

Associate Professor, Department of Oncology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University. Radiation Oncologist, Verspeeten Family Cancer Program. RO Lead for spine SABR. RO Resident Program Director.

Research Interests / Specializations: Clinical: CNS Tumors, Oligometastatic Disease, GI Malignancies, Neuroendocrine Tumors, Palliative Radiotherapy. Research: Oligo and Poly Metastatic Disease.

Anthony Nichols MD. FRCSC. FACS.

Professor, Departments of Otolaryngology, and Oncology, , Chair and Physician Lead, Division of Head and Neck. Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University. Oncology Scientist, Cancer Research Laboratory Program, London Health Sciences Research Institute. Director, Translational Head and Neck Cancer Research Program. Director, Microvascular Surgery Fellowship.

Research Interests / Specializations: Head & Neck Cancer; Robotic Surgery; Translational research; Biomarkers; Tumor virology; Clinical genomics