Jean Gariépy Research Laboratory - Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto and the Ontario Cancer Institute

Designing new classes of chemotherapeutic agents
The process of drug discovery needs to be accelerated if our society is to cope with rapidly rising numbers of cancer patients, newly unveiled mechanisms of drug resistance and the realization that cancer represents a collection of diseases that will require the tailoring of more selective therapies. Synthetic, combinatorial and genetic approaches are being applied in our laboratory to design peptide-based delivery shuttles or to re-engineer large structural templates such as bacterial toxins with the view to generating selective vehicles for cancer cells and other eukaryotic cell targets. The principles developed in our laboratory will be applicable to other disease states.

LAB MEMBERS


Jean Gariépy Principal Investigator Professor, Ph.D. University of Alberta	Erik Orava Ph.D. Student H.B.Sc. Queen's University	Melissa Cheung Ph.D. Student H.B.Sc. University of Toronto	Amirul Mallick Post-Doctoral Fellow DVM, PhD Aligarh Muslim University Post Doc Fellow University of Guelph


Wei Wei M.Sc. Student H.B.Sc. McMaster University	Aws Abdul-Wahid Post-Doctoral Fellow B.Sc. McGill University Ph.D. McGill University	Caitlin Latimer M.Sc. Student B.Eng. Queen's University	Jeehye (Linda) Choi Ph.D. Student H.B.Sc. University of Western Ontario M.Sc. University of Western Ontario


Eleonora Bolewska-Pedyczak Peptide Chemist M.Sc. Phrm. Medical Academy of Wroclaw Ph.D. Wroclaw University	Eric Huang Research Assistant H.B.Sc. (Veterinary Medicine), Gansu Agricultural University	Arshiya Mohammed Ph.D. Student H.B.Sc.University of Toronto	Nicholas Fischer M.Sc. Student H.B.Sc. University of Waterloo
DISTINGUSHED ALUMNI

Andrew McCluskey B.Sc. Honours Dalhousie University Ph.D. University of Toronto Currently: Harvard University	Leigh Revers B.A. M.A. D. Phil. Honours University of Oxford Currently: University of Toronto

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Last Updated: 27th April 2010