Senior Scientist
at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network
Dr. Benjamin Haibe-Kains is a senior scientist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre(PM), University Health Network, and professor in the Medical Biophysics Department of the University of Toronto. Dr. Haibe-Kains earned his PhD in bioinformatics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Supported by a Fulbright Award, he did his postdoctoral fellowship at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard School of Public Health (USA). He is now the Canada Research Chair in Computational Pharmacogenomics, the scientific director of the Cancer Digital Intelligence Program at PM and head of data science of the Structural Genomics Consortium. Dr. Haibe-Kains’ research focuses on integrating high-throughput data from various sources to analyze multiple facets of cancer progression and therapy response jointly using machine learning and artificial intelligence methods. Dr. Haibe-Kains’ team analyzes large-scale chemical, radiological and (pharmaco)genomic datasets to develop new therapeutics, prognostic and predictive models to improve cancer care.
Education
Awards & Certifications
New Scholar, Royal Society of Canada
Runner Up, MAQC Society Award
Mona Gauthier Award, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Canadian Research Chair Tier 2 in Computational Pharmacogenomics
Canadian Cancer Society Bernard and Francine Dorval Prize
Early Career Researcher Program award, Canadian Institutes of Health Research-Institute of Cancer Research, Canadian Cancer Society and Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
New Investigator Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Early Researcher Award from the Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation/Ministry of Research & Innovation of Ontario
Solvay Awards for doctoral research, Solvay Institutes
Fulbright award for postdoctoral research
Accreditations
BSc - Computer Science recognised by Université Libre de Bruxelles
MSc - Bioinformatics recognised by Université Libre de Bruxelles
MSc - Advanced Studies in Science recognised by Université Libre de Bruxelles
PhD - Computer Science recognised by Université Libre de Bruxelles
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