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Dr. Brad Nelson
On July 1st 2003, Dr. Brad Nelson became the founding Director and Senior Scientist of the BC Cancer Agency’s Trev & Joyce Deeley Research Centre in Victoria. He is an expert on the immune system, and his research team is developing novel strategies to enhance the immune response against cancer as a new form of treatment.
Dr. Brad Nelson was born in New Westminster and raised in Vancouver. He completed his undergraduate studies at Camosun College, UVic and UBC. He then went on to receive his doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley. Brad spent six years as a postdoctoral fellow and then faculty member at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. From there, he joined the faculty at the Benaroya Research Institute and University of Washington in Seattle until returning to Canada in 2003.
Dr. Nelson has established an Immunology Research Lab and an Antibody Research Unit at the BC Cancer Agency’s Deleey Research Centre in Victoria. He also helped launch the provincial Tumour Tissue Repository, which will provide materials and research data to scientists around the world. In addition to research, Dr. Nelson is committed to education, as demonstrated by the High School Internship Programme he developed at the Centre. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Departments of Biology and Biochemistry/Microbiology at the University of Victoria, where he teaches within the graduate programme, the Island Medical Program and the Centre for Biomedical Research.
Dr. Nelson’s major goal for the future is to develop a Clinical Immunotherapy Programme at the Deeley Research Centre. This will provide clinicians and researchers the opportunity to develop and evaluate innovative new cancer treatments that harness the power of the immune system. Moreover, it will provide patients the opportunity to participate in leading edge cancer research. In this way, the Deeley Research Centre -- which is funded by donations to the BC Cancer Foundation – will help bring the very best ideas in cancer treatment to Vancouver Island, as well as exporting important new discoveries that will benefit patients around the world.
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