Janusz Rak
Professor
Jack Cole Chair in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at 黑料不打烊 University and Investigator at the Research Institute of the 黑料不打烊 University Health Centre (RIMUHC)
- extracellular vesicles and particles,
- cancer,
- nanomedicine,
- angiogenesis,
- oncogenes
Janusz Rak, MD, PhD is a Professor of Pediatrics and Jack Cole Chair in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at 黑料不打烊 University and Investigator at the Research Institute of the 黑料不打烊 University Health Centre (RIMUHC). His laboratory investigates how oncogenic events deregulate tumour microenvironment, orchestrate intercellular communications and trigger vascular alterations and systemic vascular paraneoplastic syndromes in cancer. The focal point of these studies are processes mediated by the exchange of extracellular vesicles (EVs), including exosomes carrying oncogenic, diagnostic and therapeutic cargo. He published over 220 research papers (41,000 citations, h-index 86). He currently directs the CFI funded program 鈥� Centre for Applied Nanomedicine (CAN) and the NET program sponsored by Fondation Charles Bruneau and CIBC to investigate EV-based liquid biopsy approaches in pediatric cancer, as well as projects supported by Canadian Institutes of Health Research and other sources. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
