
Joel Pearson
PhD
- Accepting Students: Yes
- Research Category: Childhood Diseases
Contact
Current Positions
Scientist, CancerCare Manitoba Research Institute
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, University of Manitoba
Education
PhD, University of Alberta
BSc, Thompson Rivers University
Research Focus
My research focuses on neural and neuroendocrine cancers, which include childhood cancers such as retinoblastoma, neuroblastoma and certain brain cancers. My goal is to develop a better understanding of the molecular basis of these cancers and leverage these findings to identify better ways to treat them.
Research Interests
- molecular basis of cancer
- neural and neuroendocrine cancers
- cancer therapeutics
- cancer genomics
- epigenetics
- CRISPR screening