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 Name: Clay Smith, MD – Senior Scientist:
Title: Senior Scientist at the Bc cancer Agency, Director, Leukemia / Bone Marrow Transplantation Program of B.C. and Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine, UBC
Previously: Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, Duke University Medical Centre and Morfitt Cancer Centre
Research focus: Clay directs a lab at the BC Cancer Agency that investigates how blood and marrow stem cells can be identified and expanded for transplant purposes.
Research Involves
Using the latest bioengineering and computer-based technologies, Clay and his team of research scientists are systematically exploring how blood-forming stem cells grow in the body to see if these conditions can be replicated in the laboratory.
Research Relevance
Stem cells play a variety of crucial rolls in the human body, including the production of blood cells throughout a person’s lifetime. These stem cells are small in number but are vital to regenerating the blood in people with leukemia and other blood cancers who have undergone a bone marrow transplant. Blood cell transplant therapy has enormous potential to boost survival so a great deal of research is being devoted to replicate and produce these cells in large quantities.
Years at BC Cancer Agency: 4 years
Proudest accomplishment
Career - "Still working on that..."
Personal - Son graduated from Harvard with honors in physics and he’s a nice guy!
In His Own Words: “I like people and I’m fortunate to work with a wonderful group of dedicated professionals whose sole purpose is to help others beat cancer. My greatest hope is that what my team and I are doing in the laboratory will translate into treatments that will free people of their cancer so they can return to living normal healthy lives.”
Favourite sport/hobby: Flying.
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