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Marco Magalhaes

Associate Professor

Faculty of Dentistry

BIO

Dr. Marco Magalhaes is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Dentistry and the Graduate Program Director for Oral Pathology and Oral Medicine. Dr Magalhaes is a clinician-scientist who combines experience in cancer cell biology, immunology with clinical training in Oral Medicine and Pathology.
He has completed his PhD in cell biology and immunology at the Faculty of Dentistry and trained in cancer cell biology at the laboratory of Dr Condeelis at the Albert Einstein in New York.
His laboratory (Cancer invasion and metastasis laboratory - CIMlab) studies the mechanisms of invadopodia-dependent cancer invasion using oral squamous cell carcinoma models.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Assistant Professor
    University of Toronto, Toronto, CanadaJul 2015 - present
  • Teacher's Assistant
    University of Toronto, Toronto, CanadaJan 2007 - Jan 2009

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Staff Oral Pathologist
    Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, Toronto, CanadaSep 2015 - present

DEGREES

  • PhD
    University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada2006 - 2009
  • Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS)
    Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil2000 - 2005

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING

  • Oral Medicine and Oral Pathology Resident
    University of Toronto, Toronto, CanadaJul 2011 - Jun 2015
  • Post Doctoral Research Fellow
    Albert Einstein College of Medicine, The Bronx, United StatesMar 2009 - Feb 2012

AVAILABILITY

  • Industry Projects

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