A laboratory built around connected questions.

Rod Bremner

Rod Bremner, Ph.D., is a Senior Investigator and the Freiberg Cancer Research Chair at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health. He is Professor in the Departments of Ophthalmology & Vision Sciences and Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology at the University of Toronto. His laboratory asks why the same cancer-causing defect transforms only certain cell types, and whether shared higher-order tumour states can reveal vulnerabilities that cut across molecular heterogeneity. The group combines single-cell and functional genomics, proteomics, high-throughput screening, three-dimensional culture and in vivo models to study cancer initiation, therapeutic resistance, retinoblastoma and retinal neuroprotection and regeneration.