Torsten Nielsen
MD/PhD, FRCPC
Biography
Dr. Nielsen was born in North Vancouver and inspired to be a cancer researcher by Terry Fox. He completed the MD/PhD training program at McGill and the Anatomical Pathology residency program at UBC, with additional training at Stanford and in England. He was appointed as an Assistant Professor at UBC and started his lab at VCHRI in 2003, and was promoted to full professor in 2012. Dr. Nielsen is also an affilated member of the departments of Orthopaedics and of Urological Sciences
1. Translational research in breast cancer - developing clinically-practical predictive biomarkers using tissue microarray and Nanostring technology
2. Molecular oncology of sarcomas afflicting the AYA (adolescent and young adult) population - synovial sarcoma, myxoid liposarcoma, epithelioid sarcoma and related cancers
3. Correlative science support for clinical trials in breast cancer and sarcoma, in association with the Canadian Cancer Trials Group
- PloS one - 2017, Jan 5
- The Journal of molecular diagnostics : JMD - 2016, Dec 20
- Oncotarget - 2016, Oct 12
- Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 2016, Sep 7
- Histopathology - 2016, Sep 29
- Breast cancer (Tokyo, Japan) - 2016, Aug 12
- The Journal of pathology - 2016, Jan 15