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Mitsu Ikura
University of Toronto and Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
Dr. Mitsu Ikura is a Professor in Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto and a Senior Scientist at the Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Cancer Centre. Dr. Ikura obtained his Ph.D. in Biophysics from Hokkaido University, Japan in 1986 and pursued post-doctoral studies with Dr. Ad Bax at National Institutes of Health, USA. Since 1991 Dr. Ikura has been conducting his research in Toronto, and currently holds a Canada Research Chair in Cancer Structural Biology. Dr. Ikura was previously an International Scholar of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a Senior Investigate of Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Dr. Ikura was trained as an NMR spectroscopist but now employs a variety of biophysical and biochemical techniques to answer biologically important questions. His major research achievement includes the elucidation of structural bases on Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent kinase activation and cadherin/catenin-dependent cell-cell interaction mechanisms. In the past decade, Dr. Ikura shifted his research focus more towards cancer biology and now actively working on small GTPase-mediated cell signaling processes such as Ras and Rho pathways. He hopes to elucidate molecular and structural mechanisms underlying cancer-associated signaling processes, in order to better understand tumourigenesis and to develop better therapeutics against the life-threatening disease.
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03 Aug 2014