Aru Narendran
Professor
MD, PhD
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Karen Fandrey
Email: karen.fandrey@ahs.ca
Office: 403-955-7272
Research and teaching
Area of Focus
- New therapies for refractory pediatric cancers
Summary of Research
Dr. Narendran's laboratory focuses on the development of a “trial-in-a-cell” approach for future personalized cancer treatment in children. They have expertise in establishing molecularly relevant cell lines and tumor xenografts to screen libraries of novel therapeutics and biological agents for relapsed pediatric cancers. They are also establishing collaborations to derive genomic, epigenomic and transcriptomic data to find driver mutations and decisive genetic alterations in individual tumor specimens so druggable targets can be identified and matched to most applicable therapeutic agents for precision medicine in pediatric oncology. http://poeticphase1.org/biology/Preclinical.aspx
Career Opportunity currently available in Dr. Narendran's lab:
Laboratory Research Opportunity in Immunology and Pediatric Cancer.
Project Aim: Currently, every year more than 400 Canadian children die because their cancer did not respond to current treatments. Our laboratory is investigating novel therapeutic approaches to cure these children, including antitumor vaccines.
We are looking for a graduate student (MSc. or PhD) or a postdoctoral fellow to join our group. We are part of Cumming School of Medicine, Charbonneau Cancer Institute, University of Calgary and Alberta Children’s Hospital.
Position available immediately.
Qualifications: Interest and expertise in immunology including animal models would be as an asset.
Please forward your inquiries to:
Michael O’Connell, E-mail: mwoconne@ucalgary.ca or call Dr. Aru Narendran (403) 210 6418
Biography
Dr. Narendran has undergraduate and graduate degrees in Biochemistry and Immunology respectively, PhD in Neuroimmunology and a postdoctoral fellowship training in cancer biology from the Ontario Cancer Institute (OCI). His medical training were from McMaster University (MD), Tufts University, Massachusetts (Pediatrics Residency) and the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto (Pediatric Hematology and Oncology fellowship). He is the recipient of a number of awards including the Odile Schweisguth International Prize for pediatric oncology research and the young investigator award from the Children’s oncology group (COG). Dr. Narendran is currently a professor of oncology and pediatrics. His current responsibilities also include directing a laboratory for preclinical and drug discovery studies and phase I clinical trials for children with currently incurable malignancies, training students and postdoctoral fellows in pediatric cancer research and teaching graduate level courses in cancer biology, novel cancer therapeutics and ethics in reserch. Dr. Narendran sits on the Research and Ethics Board (REB) for the Calgary Health Region.
