Elections 2008
Congratulations to Dr. Ronan Foley who has just commenced his position as CBMTG's President-Elect (2008-2010)!
Dr. Ronan Foley, MD, FRCPC
Hamilton, ON, Canada
For President-Elect
Dr. Ronan Foley is a clinical haematologist and Director of the Stem Cell Laboratory, Hamilton Health Sciences. Over the past four years Dr. Foley has acted as Chair of the Clinical Trials Network of the Canadian Bone Marrow Transplant Group (CBMTG). An Associate Professor of Pathology and Molecular Medicine at McMaster University, Dr. Foley completed his medical and subspecialty training in Hamilton and Toronto. He completed a Terry Fox Fellowship in the Centre of Gene Therapeutics, McMaster University. During this time, he became interested in the evaluation of cellular gene transfer in the context of cancer immunotherapy, which led to his current research focus: the development of therapeutic cancer vaccines. In addition to fundamental research the clinical laboratory has been active in novel clinical stem cell manipulations for haploidentical transplants and photodynamic therapy for GVHD and tumor cell purging (NHL).
