Dr. Sagi Abelson - Ontario Institute for Cancer Research

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Dr. Sagi Abelson

Early-Career Investigator

sagi.abelson@oicr.on.ca

Early-Career Investigator

Dr. Sagi Abelson’s work aims to understand the extrinsic selective pressures and cell-intrinsic mechanisms governing clonal dominance and cell transformation in healthy tissues and cancer-prone diseases.

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University of Toronto faculty

Better identification and characterization of the programs that lead to cancer will provide opportunities for early cancer detection and prevention. Dr. Abelson’s work focuses on the analysis of genomics and other age-related quantitative factors to understanding the aetiology of cancer for the purpose of risk estimation. To improve patient care and outcome, the team seek to develop and bring advanced sequencing methodologies and bioinformatics tools into clinical use.

Experience & Education

Post-Doctoral fellow, Princess Margaret Cancer Center, University Health Network
PhD, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Faculty of Medicine, Israel
MSc, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Faculty of Medicine, Israel
BSc, Biotechnology Engineering, Ort Braude, Israel

Current Affiliations

Early-Career Investigator, OICR
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto

Select Publications

Abelson S, Collord G, Ng SWK, …, Shlush LI. Prediction of acute myeloid leukaemia risk in healthy individuals. Nature. 2018;559(7714):400-404.
Shlush LI, Mitchell A, Heisler L, Abelson S, …, Dick JE. Tracing the origins of relapse in acute myeloid leukaemia to stem cells. Nature. 2017;547(7661):104-108.
Rostoker R, Abelson S, Genkin I, …, LeRoith D. CD24(+) cells fuel rapid tumor growth and display high metastatic capacity. Breast Cancer Res. 2015;17:78.
Abelson S. Eureka-DMA: an easy-to-operate graphical user interface for fast comprehensive investigation and analysis of DNA microarray data. BMC Bioinformatics. 2014;15:53.
Abelson S, Shamai Y, Berger L, …, Tzukerman M. Niche-dependent gene expression profile of intratumoral heterogeneous ovarian cancer stem cell populations. PLoS ONE. 2013;8(12):e83651.
Abelson S, Shamai Y, Berger L, …, Tzukerman M. Intratumoral heterogeneity in the self-renewal and tumorigenic differentiation of ovarian cancer. Stem Cells. 2012;30(3):415-24.

See Dr. Abelson’s recent publications on PubMed.

Research Areas

Biology Early Detection and Diagnosis Informatics and Data Standards

Disease Areas

Leukemia Ovarian

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Programs

Computational Biology

Utilizes datasets from multiple sources for the development and application of algorithms for cancer genome analysis, biomarker discovery, cancer pathway discovery, data integration and tumour evolution research.

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