CHARLES ISHAK
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I will join the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center as an Assistant Professor within the Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis and the Department of Gynecologic Oncology and Reproductive Medicine during summer 2023.

I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Daniel De Carvalho at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network in Toronto, Canada. I earned my PhD from Western University under Dr. Frederick Dick.

My work explores mechanistic connections between tumor suppression and repetitive elements, with a particular focus on how changes to heterochromatin at repetitive elements may promote immune evasion during cancer initiation.
 EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Postdoctoral Fellow
Princess Margaret Cancer, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
2017-2023
Cancer epigenetics

Ph.D.
Western University, London, Canada
2011-2017
Biochemistry​

B.Sc
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
2006-2011
Molecular Biology

FELLOWSHIPS
2019   CIHR Postdoctoral Fellowship , Canadian Institutes of Health Research
2017   Princess Margaret Excellence Fellowship, Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation

HONORS AND AWARDS
2022     Travel Award, Canadian Epigenetics, Environment & Health Research Consortium Network
2021     Forbeck Scholar, William Guy Forbeck Research Foundation
2020     F1000Prime Award – Associate Faculty Member Travel Grant, F1000Prime
2019     Travel Award, Institute of Cancer Research, Canadian Institutes of Health Research
2019     Associate Faculty Member, Faculty Opinions (Formerly F1000Prime)
2018     Travel Award, University Health Network
2018     METIOR Incubator Early Career Researcher, Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer
2017     Lawson Leadership Impact Award, Lawson Health Research Institute
2017     Lucille & Norton Wolf Publication Award: Epigenetics, Lawson Health Research Institute
2016     Editor’s Choice, Mobile DNA
2016     Scholarship for Commercialization and Entrepreneurship, WORLDiscoveries
2014     Poster Award, Oncology Research & Education Day, Western University
2013     Scholarship, Strategic Training Program in Cancer Research and Technology Transfer, CIHR
2012     PhD Scholarship, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2021              Session Co-chair, Translational Research Conference, Ontario Institute of Cancer Research
2020-             Reviewer, Doctoral Research Awards Peer Review Committee, Canadian Institutes of Health Research
2019-             Associate Faculty Member, Faculty Opinions (formerly F1000 Prime)
2018-             Ad hoc reviewer: Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology, Clinical Cancer Research, Nature Cancer, Oncogene
2018-2019    Co-chair and Co-lead, Research Information Outreach Team, Canadian Cancer Society
2016-2017    Co-founder. Victoria Research Laboratories Bioinformatics Group, London Health Sciences Centre.
2015-2016    Strategic Planning Steering Committee Member, Department of Oncology, Western University
2013-2019    Science outreach author and speaker, Research Information Outreach Team, Canadian Cancer Society






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