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Associate Professor
Temerty Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Biophysics
Orcid identifier0000-0002-4517-1562
- Associate ProfessorTemerty Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Biophysics
- (416) 634-8789
- Princess Margaret Cancer Research Tower, MaRS Centre, 101 College Street, Room 11-311, Toronto, ON, M5G 1L7
BIO
Michael Hoffman creates predictive computational models to understand interactions between genome, epigenome, and phenotype in human cancers. He implemented the genome annotation method Segway, which simplifies interpretation of large multivariate genomic datasets, and was a linchpin of the NIH ENCODE Project analysis. He is a principal investigator at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and Associate Professor in the Departments of Medical Biophysics and Computer Science, University of Toronto. He was named a CIHR New Investigator and has received several awards for his academic work, including the NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award, and the Ontario Early Researcher Award.
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DEGREES
- PhDUniversity of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
AVAILABILITY
- Media enquiries
INSTITUTIONAL STRATEGIC INITIATIVES
- Medicine by Design (MbD)
- PRiME (Precision Medicine Initiative)
- Data Sciences Institute (DSI)
AFFILIATED INSTITUTIONS
- University Health Network