Leonardo
Salmena Ph.d.

Leonardo (Lenny) Salmena completed his Hon. BSc and M.Sc. in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Toronto before completing his Ph.D. in the Department of Medical Biophysics at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre. Lenny’s post-doctoral training in Cancer Biology and Genetics was split between Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City and the Beth Israel Deaconess Cancer Center at Harvard Medical School in Boston.

 

Currently, Lenny is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology holds a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Signal Transduction and Gene Regulation in Cancer.

 

Since its opening in 2014, the Salmena Lab has been home to over 30 undergraduate trainees, 20 graduate trainees and several postdocs participating in number of exciting projects in cancer biology.

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Here is a link to Dr. Salmena's Google Scholar Page