Purzner | Biomedical and Molecular Sciences | School of Medicine | Queen's University

James Purzner

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Position(s)

Assistant Professor

Contact Info

jgp12@queensu.ca

Dr. James Purzner (along with Dr. Teresa Purzner) is a neurosurgeon scientist who did their neurosurgical training at the University of Toronto and their graduate training at Stanford University.

First and foremost, their research program is founded on an unrelenting commitment to ensuring that the goals of the research performed in the lab reflect the unmet needs of patients with brain tumors and, similarly, that each interaction with human disease, inside the OR and out, should be viewed as an opportunity to guide the work of the lab. There are two major themes to the lab:

1) designing novel molecular-based therapies for medulloblastomas that drive differentiation of cancer cells into benign neurons through harnessing, rather than fighting, cancer evolution

2) developing simple tools that help us better understand drivers of recurrence and invasion in glioblastoma and, through real-time molecular profiling, guide personalized, precision surgery.

Faculty

Abraham, Sheela, Associate Professor

Adams, Michael A., Professor

Allingham, John, Professor

Andrew, R. David, Professor

Banfield, Bruce W, Professor

Basta, Sam, Professor

Blohm, Gunnar, Professor

Boehnke, Susan, Associate Professor

Brennan, Faith, Assistant Professor

Campbell, Robert L., Associate Professor

Capicciotti, Chantelle, Assistant Professor

Carver, L.F., Associate Professor

Chan, Edmond, Associate Professor

Colpitts, Che, Assistant Professor

Craig, Andrew, Professor

Davies, Peter L., Professor

De Felice, Fernanda, Associate Professor

Dick, Sarah, Assistant Professor

Domnik, Nicolle, Assistant Professor

Duan, Qingling, Associate Professor

Dumont, Eric C, Associate Professor

Dunham-Snary, Kimberly, Assistant Professor

Ferguson, Alastair V., Professor

Gallivan, Jason, Associate Professor

Gee, Katrina, Professor

Ghasemlou, Nader, Associate Professor

Graham, Charles H., Professor

Hindmarch, Charlie, Assistant Professor

Jia, Zongchao, Professor

Jones, Glenville, Professor

Kan, Frederick W.K., Professor

Kaufmann, Eva, Assistant Professor

Kawaja, Michael D., Professor

Koti, Madhuri, Associate Professor

Lomax, Alan, Professor

MacKenzie, Leslie W., Associate Professor

Magoski, Neil S., Professor

Maurice, Donald H., Professor

Mueller, Christopher R., Professor

Mulder, Jeanne, Assistant Professor

Munoz, Douglas P., Professor

Oby, Emily, Assistant Professor

Ormiston, Mark, Associate Professor

Ozolins, Terence, Associate Professor

Pang, Stephen C., Professor

Pare, Martin, Professor

Petkovich, P. Martin, Professor

Postovit, Lynne-Marie, Professor and Department Head

Reynolds, James N., Professor

Scott, Stephen H., Professor

Simpson, Amber, Associate Professor

Smith, Steven P., Professor

Stroman, Patrick , Professor

Szewczuk, Myron R., Professor

Talbot, Sebastien, Associate Professor

Tayade, Chandrakant , Professor

Ward, Christopher A., Associate Professor

Winn, Louise M., Professor

Zhang, Shetuan, Professor