We are very excited to welcome Dr. Stefan Burdach as the inaugural Academy of Translational Medicine (ATM) Visiting Professor to the University of British Columbia. Dr. Burdach is visiting from March to June of 2022 from the Translational Pediatric Cancer Research Action, Institute of Pathology and Children’s Cancer Research Center, Department of Pediatrics at Technical University of Munich School of Medicine and will be hosted at the BC Cancer Research Institute.
Dr. Burdach’s scientific merits include four decades of bringing together basic science and clinical application in the field of pediatric oncology and hematology and significant accomplishments in establishing a research collaboration across the Atlantic Ocean to fight childhood cancer, in particular the main cause of death in these diseases, metastasis. Dr. Burdach’s work has not only elucidated important mechanisms of metastatic spread but has also developed targeted immunotherapies to potentially target the metastatic process.
In acknowledging Dr. Burdach as a pioneer of translational medicine even before this term was coined, we are proud to welcome Dr. Burdach as the ATM’s inaugural Visiting Professor.
The ATM Visiting Professorship program aims to forge further collaborations between the University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine and other translational medicine centres of excellence across the world.