Benjamin Haibe-Kains

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. My research focuses on the integration of high-throughput data from various sources to simultaneously analyze multiple facets of carcinogenesis. 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 and 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 working towards improving transparency and reproducibility in computational research. My laboratory maintains 31 public genomic datasets and provides 15 open-source software packages.