Taha Azad, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

Université de Sherbrooke

Education/Training

Post Doctoral training, Oncolytic virotherapy, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute.

Ph.D. Pathology and molecular medicine, Queen's University.

M.Sc. Biochemistry, Tarbiat Modares University.

B.Sc. Cellular and molecular biology, University of Tehran.

CIHR Operating Grant: Bioengineering viruses to create safer and more effective oncolytic viruses (PI, $986,000)

Terry Fox New Investigator Award "Developing novel Oncolytic Viruses as Therapeutic Tools for Pediatric Brain Tumors" (PI, $450,000)

Scholarships for the Next Generation of Scientists, (PI, $170,000)