Faculty Member
Philip Awadalla
- Email Address(es)
- Philip.Awadalla(at)oicr.on.ca
- Office Phone
- 647-260-7990
- Office Address
- 661 University Avenue, Suite 6-42, Toronto, Ontario Canada M5G 0A3
- Website(s)
- CanPath Website
- Division(s)/Institute(s)
- Epidemiology Division
- Position
- Professor
- SGS Status
- Full Member
- Appointment Status
- Status Only
Research Interests
- identifying genomic determinants of blood disorders and cancers
- understanding mutation and recombination biology
- genomic epidemiology of age-related disorders in population cohorts
CanPath, the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow’s Health
Dr. Philip Awadalla is the National Scientific Director of CanPath, a centre at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and Canada’s largest population Health Study. CanPath has collected data from over 330,000 Canadian participants, including information about health, lifestyle, environment, and behaviour. This rich dataset is helping researchers solve some of Canada’s largest health problems, including understanding chronic diseases and predicting cancer earlier.
Education & Training History
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council / Killam Trust Fellowship – University of British Columbia
- Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Fellowship – University of California, Davis and Edinburgh
- PhD Epidemiology – Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology, University of Edinburgh
- MSc – University of Toronto
- BSc – University of Western Ontario
Professional Summary & Appointments
- 2018–Present: National Scientific Director – CanPath – Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow’s Health
- 2015–Present: Senior Principal Investigator & 2018 – Present Director, Computational Biology – Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
- 2014–Present: Executive Director – Genome Canada Technology Platform (CDIC)
- 2016–Present: Professor – Department of Molecular Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, & Division of Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
- 2015–Present: Executive Director – Ontario Health Study
- 2009–2015: Executive Director – CARTaGENE
- 2007–2014: Associate Professor – CHUM, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal
Primary Teaching Responsibilities
- MGY470 Human Genetics
- Advanced Computational Biology
- Supervision of graduate students