Faculty Member
Benjamin Haibe-Kains PhD
- Email Address(es)
- benjamin.haibe.kains(at)utoronto.ca
- Office Phone
- 4165818626
- Office Address
- Princess Margaret Research Tower, 11-310 101 College Street Toronto, Ontario M5G1L7 Canada
- Division(s)/Institute(s)
- Biostatistics Division
- Position
- Associate Professor
- SGS Status
- Associate Member
- Appointment Status
- Status Only
Research Interests
My research focuses on the integration of high-throughput data from various sources to simultaneously analyze multiple facets of carcinogenesis. In particular, my team is analyzing radiological and (pharmaco)genomic datasets to develop new prognostic and predictive models and to discover new therapeutic strategies with the aim to significantly improve disease management. My main scientific contributions include several prognostic gene signatures in breast cancer, subtype classification models for ovarian and breast cancers, genomic predictors of drug response in cancer cell lines, and radiomic prognostic models in head-and-neck cancers. My team is also working towards developing new ways to improve transparency and reproducibility in computational research.
I am a Senior Scientist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre (PM), University Health Network, Associate Professor in the Medical Biophysics department of the University of Toronto, and the Canada Research Chair in Computational Pharmacogenomics. I have earned my PhD in Bioinformatics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium). Supported by a Fulbright Award, I did my postdoctoral fellowship at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard School of Public Health (USA). I started my own laboratory at the Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal (Canada) and moved to PM in November 2013.