Prospective Interns
Current Opportunities
Abstracts for 2013 internship opportunities are now posted.
- Project A: Integrated Prognostic mRNA and miRNA Signatures for Cervix Cancer Outcome
Supervisor: Dr. Paul C. Boutros, Principal Investigator at Informatics & Biocomputing Ontario Institute for Cancer Research Collaborator: Dr. Fei-Fei Liu, Professor at Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Staff Radiation Oncologist at Princess Margaret Hospital/University Health Network, and Senior Scientist at Ontario Cancer Institute Location: Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto Research Plan: Cervix [...]
- Project B: Assessment of functional impact score of somatic mutations for outcome prediction in TCGA datasets (GBM, Ovarian and Colorectal)
Supervisor: Dr. Paul C. Boutros, Principal Investigator at Informatics & Biocomputing Ontario Institute for Cancer Research Collaborator: Multiple collaborators Location: Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto Research Plan: Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), Ovarian and Colorectal cancers are amongst the most malignant cancers types. In 2010, an estimated 22,000, 21,888 and 142,270 patients were diagnosed with GBM, [...]
- Project C: Statistical Models for Pre-post-treatment Biomarkers Correlation to Patients’ Outcomes
Supervisor: Dr. Keyue Ding, Senior Biostatistician, NCIC-Clinical Trials Group, Associate Professor, Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Queen’s University Location: Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario Research Plan: In some biomarker studies accompanying clinical trials, serum/blood samples were collected at baseline and at certain time points after treatments. Usually based on the biological/medical background, those interested markers [...]
- Project D: Methodological Approaches for an Integrated Translational Pharmacogenomic Research in Esophageal and Lung Cancer: From Pre-Clinical Mouse Models to Genome Wide Association Studies and Combined Biostatistical-Bioinformatic Approaches
Supervisor: Dr. Wei Xu, Principal Biostatistician at the Princess Margaret Hospital, Scientist at the Ontario Cancer Institute, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics in School of Public Health, University of Toronto Collaborator: Dr. Geoffrey Liu, Alan B. Brown Chair in Molecular Genomics, University of Toronto, Cancer Care Ontario Research Chair in Experimental Therapeutics and Population Studies, medical [...]
- Project E: Genetic Polymorphisms and Head and Neck Cancer Outcomes
Supervisor: Dr. Wei Xu, Principal Biostatistician at the Princess Margaret Hospital, Scientist at the Ontario Cancer Institute, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics in School of Public Health, University of Toronto Collaborators: Dr. Geoffrey Liu, Clinical Scientist, Alan B. Brown Chair in Molecular Genomics, University of Toronto, Cancer Care Ontario Research Chair in Experimental Therapeutics and Population [...]
- Project F: Statistical Analysis for Several Projects Related to NCIC Clinical Trials Group LY.12 Trial
Supervisor: Dr. Bingshu Chen, Senior Biostatistician at the NCIC Clinical Trials Group, Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Queen’s University Location: Queen’s University, Kingston Research Plan: NCIC CTG LY12 is a multi-centre, randomized phase III study coordinated by the NCIC Clinical Trials Group. The primary objective of this study is to [...]
- Project G: The Prostate Cancer Risk Stratification (ProCaRS) Database Project – Impact of Androgen Ablation and Radiation Dose
Supervisor: Dr. George Rodrigues, Clinician Scientist at London Health Sciences Center, Associate Professor at the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Western University Location: London Regional Cancer Program, London Research Plan: The Genitourinary Radiation Oncologists of Canada (GUROC) published a consensus-based three-group (i.e. low-, intermediate-, and high-risk) risk stratification system for the management of prostate cancer [...]
