Hi. I’m Mike, and I find it difficult to write ‘About’ sections of websites.
Where to begin?
Professionally, I work for a large pharmaceutical company, where I help lead development of novel drug strategies for prostate and other cancers.
Prior to this, I was a research scientist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research here in Toronto (where I was born and now live), and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urology at the University of Toronto. My long-standing research interests are in prostate cancer genomics, computational biology, and biomarker discovery. I had the great privilege to work on and lead a number of large international research teams, including the Canadian Prostate Cancer Genome Network (CPC-GENE), the International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC), and the Pan-Prostate Cancer Group (PPCG). I hold a Bachelor of Science from McGill University, a Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Medicine from the University of Ottawa, and I did post-doctoral studies in radiation medicine at the Princess Margaret in Toronto. I have authored or co-authored 161 research papers, reviews, editorials, and book chapters that have, collectively, been cited over 18,000 times, with an h-index of 56. You can find some of these publications in the ‘Papers’ section of this site.
On the personal side, I live in Toronto with my wife and two kids. I’m an accomplished amateur photographer and not-so-accomplished amateur musician. You can find selected photographs and music on the site. I’m also a huge baseball fan, which, coupled with my love of statistics and data, turned me into something of an amateur sabermetrician. I previously coached AA youth baseball but now I just enjoy watching my son play.