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Peter Zandstra

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My lab applies engineering design principles, computational modeling and fundamental stem cell biology across all our endeavors to advance our understanding of cell fate control mechanisms and to develop new cell therapy bioprocess engineering and manufacturing strategies and principles with the goal of enabling accessible therapeutic approaches to disease treatment using living cells. Many of the industrially-oriented clinical stage products being developed today are using engineering innovations developed by my lab (either directly or through the efforts of the not-for-profit translation centre CCRM, which I co-founded).

Awards

  • Companion Member, Order of Canada, 2021
  • Fellow, Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS), Distinction, 2020/ 2021
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 2014
  • Till & McCulloch Investigator Award, 2013
  • Ontario Premier’s Research Excellence Award, 2000-2004

Relevant Publications

  • Discher, DE., Mooney, DJ, and Zandstra, PW. (2009). Growth factors, matrices, and forces combine and control stem cells. Science. 324 (5935), 1673- 1677. https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.1171643
  • Varelas, X., Sakuma, R., Samavarchi-Tehrani, P., Peerani, R., Rao, BM., Dembowy, J., Yaffe, MB., Zandstra, PW., and Wrana, JL. (2008) TAZ controls Smad nucleocytoplasmic shuttling and regulates human embryonic stem-cell self-renewal. Nat Cell Biol. 10(7), 837-48. https://www.nature.com/articles/ncb1748
  • Ng, SW., Mitchell, A., Kennedy, JA., Chen, WC., McLeod, J., Ibrahimova, N., Arruda, A., Popescu, A., Gupta, V., Schimmer, AD., Schuh, AC., Yee, KW., Bullinger, L., Herold, T., Görlich, D., Büchner, T., Hiddemann, W., Berdel, WE., Wörmann, B., Cheok, M., Preudhomme, C., Dombret, H., Metzeler, K., Buske, C., Löwenberg, B., Valk, PJ., Zandstra, PW., Minden, MD., Dick, JE., and Wang, JC. (2016) A 17-gene stemness score for rapid determination of risk in acute leukemia. Nature. 540(7633), 433-437. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature20598

Institution

University of British Columbia

Department

School of Biomedical Engineering

Education

  • PhD (Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology) University of British Columbia
  • BEng (Chemical Engineering, Minor in Biotechnology), McGill University

Country

Canada

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