Biography

Dr. Bryan Lo is the lead scientist and medical director of the Ottawa Hospital's Molecular Oncology Diagnostics Laboratory. Lo previously worked in San Francisco, California where he conducted research at the biotechnology firm, Genentech. Lo received his MD-PhD from the University of Toronto, finished his residency at the Hospital for Sick Children and was a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University. Dr Lo's lab will facilitate analysis of genetic flaws inside tumor cells, which will allow the personalization of treatment for each patient's individual type of cancer. It will also give patients access to the latest experimental cancer therapies and reduce wait times for test results since tissue samples will no longer have to be sent away for testing.