Precision Medicine at Single Cell Resolution

Dr. Trevor Pugh, PhD, FACMG is a cancer genomics researcher, board-certified molecular geneticist, and holder of the Canada Research Chair in Translational Genomics. His research program is focused on understanding clinical implications of clonal shifts in cancer and non-cancerous cell populations during treatment, most recently using cell-free DNA, immune repertoire, and single cell RNA-seq sequencing. He is appointed as Associate Professor in the University of Toronto Department of Medical Biophysics, Senior Scientist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, and Director of Genomics and Senior Investigator at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research. He has contributed to multiple large-scale genomics and data-sharing programs including AACR GENIE and the Terry Fox Marathon of Hope Cancer Centres Network. Most recently, he was awarded a Terry Fox New Investigator Award and a StandUp2Cancer Phillip A. Sharp Innovation in Collaboration Award, as well recognition by the Web of Science Highly Cited Researchers List for achieving the top 1% of citations by field internationally over the last decade.