Christopher Paige
Vice President of Research, University Health Network; Senior Scientist, Ontario Cancer Institute.
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Dr. Paige is Vice President of Research for the University Health Network, which oversees the Toronto General Hospital, Toronto Western Hospital, and Princess Margaret Hospital. He is also a professor in the departments of Medical Biophysics and Immunology and Ronald Buick Chair in Cancer Research at the University of Toronto. He is an active educator in the undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate programs of the university’s medical school and is a sought-after speaker at science and medical conferences worldwide.
He began his career as a member of the Basel Institute for Immunology in Switzerland where he worked from 1980-1987 before joining the Ontario Cancer Institute as a senior scientist in 1987. In 1990, he became the Founding Director of the Arthritis and Autoimmunity Research Centre as well as Director of Research at the Wellesley Hospital in Toronto. In 1998, he returned to the Ontario Cancer Institute and subsequently assumed his current position at the University of Toronto.
He is an internationally recognized leader in the area of lymphocyte development and antibody formation. He is the principal investigator in a Terry Fox Program project on blood cell development and his research has been supported for many years by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the National Cancer Institute of Canada. His original research is published in leading scientific journals. He has served on the advisory boards of the National Cancer Institute and the Arthritis Society of Canada.
He earned a Ph.D in Immunology at the Sloan-Kettering Division of Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences in 1979. He chairs the board of the Toronto Biotechnology Commercialization Center, a biotechnology incubator developed in partnership with the MaRS Centre and the Toronto Academic Health Sciences Network. He is also chair of BioDiscovery Toronto, one of Ontario’s Regional Innovation Networks, designed to provide a coordinated storefront for the research business development offices of the hospitals and universities in the Greater Toronto Area.
