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Robert S. Kerbel

Robert S. Kerbel PhD

Immunology and Microbiology
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Dr. Kerbel received his PhD in immunology Queen’s University in Kingston in 1972, after which he undertook postdoctoral training in tumor immunology at the Chester Beatty Research Institute in London England. He started his career as an independent researcher focusing on tumor immunology and tumor immunotherapy as an Assistant Professor and career awardee as a Research Scholar of the National Cancer Institute of Canada (NCIC) in the Department of Pathology Queen’s University from 1975.

Until 1985, the focus of most of his work was in tumor immunology and therapy of metastatic disease. From 1981 until 1985, he was appointed Director of the Cancer Research labs at Queen’s. In 1985, he moved to Mount Sinai Hospital where he was recruited to develop a cancer research group. During this period he was the recipient of a Terry Fox Career Scientist Award from the NCIC. In 1991, he moved to the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, where he was recruited to develop a program in cancer research.
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