Dr. Karsan is a clinician-scientist at BC Cancer and Professor of Pathology at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He completed undergraduate training and medical school at Queen’s University, and internship and residency at UBC in Vancouver. This was followed by a research fellowship at the University of Washington in Seattle, prior to commencing a faculty position at UBC. His current research aims to understand the post-transcriptional mechanisms of resistance and relapse in the myeloid cancers using single cell sequencing and functional assays. His lab, comprised of wet lab scientists and bioinformaticians uses genomic, proteomic and in vivo methods to understand normal and leukemic stem cell function. His clinical interest centres on developing genomic methodologies, and improving automation and quality assurance in clinical genomics. In 2010 he established the Centre for Clinical Genomics (CCG) at BC Cancer, which was the first accredited lab in Canada to use next-generation sequencing techniques to deliver clinical testing. The CCG also supported four other Provinces in their clinical genomic testing needs.
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