Extended Faculty Research Descriptions

FirstTorsten
LastNielsen
Current RankProfessor
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Are willing to serve on graduate student committees related to your expertise areas?depends. My duties as MD/PhD program director force me onto a large number of committees, more than my bandwidth really allows. I can only sit on Pathology student committees if they are also in the MD/PhD program, as a few are.
Are you interested in collaborative research?Yes
Do you have any biobanks available for collaborative research?Yes
If yes, please provide more details or describe the biobanks available:

I help manage the Bone & Soft Tissue biobank, as well as MAPcore which can provide access to tissue microarrays of most tissues and tumor types

Do you have any other equipment or resources available for collaborative research?Yes
If yes, please provide more details or describe the equipment and resources available:

equipment including immunohistochemistry autostainers, microscope slide scanners, nanoString prep station / digital analyzer / GeoMX digital spatial profiler, and a Zeiss axioscan https://mapcore.med.ubc.ca/equipment/

Please check all research categories that apply to your interests
  • Cancer Research and Oncology
  • Translational Medicine and Drug Discovery
  • Molecular Genetics and Precision Medicine
Post your research keywordsbreast cancer, histopathology, molecular diagnostics, sarcoma
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