Biography
Dr. Michael Anglesio is a principal investigator in the Ovarian Cancer Research Program and Women's Health Research Institute (WHRI) as well as an assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of British Columbia. After studying microbiology and immunology at McGill University, he completed his PhD at the Pediatric Cancer Research Program and post-doctoral fellowship at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Center in Melbourne, Australia. His work focuses on further refining and differentiating ovarian cancer subtypes and the various origins of these subtypes. He has also taken a strong interest in understanding how malignancies arise from uterine tissues and is developing model systems to better understand how clear cell and endometrioid ovarian cancers differentiate as they arise from endometriosis.
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Honing in on precision treatments for endometriosis
Mar 14, 2023Publications
- The Journal of pathology -
- Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) -
- Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research -
- The New England journal of medicine -
- Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research -
- Gynecologic oncology -
- Clinical obstetrics and gynecology -
- Histopathology -
- Nature genetics -
- PloS one -