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SkIN Canada Research Map

A publicly accessible web database of skin researchers and expertise in Canada.

Title
Investigator
Affiliation
Primary department
City, Province
Degrees
Research pillars
Fields of research
Skin condition
Methodological expertise
Dr.

Fish, Joel

joel.fish@sickkids.ca

(416) 553-3474

Hospital for Sick Children
Surgery
Toronto,
Ontario
MD Master's of Science (Burns and Wound Care)
  • Clinical
Scars, Patient reported outcomes, Laser therapy, Burns
  • Burns

Clinical research with studies in patient related outcome measure (SCAR Q)
Burn Care Programs with clinical review papers in many areas of burn care

Dr.

Fradette, Julie

Full profile

julie.fradette@chg.ulaval.ca

(418) 525-4444

Université Laval
Department of Surgery
Quebec,
Quebec
PhD
  • Basic biomedical
Wound repair, tissue engineering, adipose tissue, mesenchymal cell-based therapies, biological dressings.
  • Dermatitis
  • Diabetic
  • Radiodermatitis
  • Diabetes

Tissue engineering (skin, adipose tissue, bone), cell culture, animal models of wound healing and tissue grafting, confocal imaging, histology.

Dr.

Gabriel, Vincent

Full profile

vince.gabriel@albertahealthservices.ca

(403) 944-5930

University of Calgary
Clinical Neurosciences
Calgary,
Alberta
MD Master's (Clinical Sciences)
  • Basic biomedical
  • Clinical
Wound healing therapeutics, wound healing outcomes, burn related disaster management, medical device design
  • Fibrosis

Clinical and translational research

Miss.

Gauthier, Josianne

gauthierjosianne@gmail.com

Whitehorse General Hospital
Pharmacy
Whitehorse,
Yukon
M.Sc. Pharm.
  • Clinical
Frostbite
  • Frostbite
Prof.

Germain, Lucie

Full profile

lucie.germain@fmed.ulaval.ca

(418) 525-4444

Université Laval
Department of Surgery and LOEX center
Quebec,
Quebec
PhD
  • Clinical
  • Basic biomedical
Regenerative Medicine, Stem cells, Tissue engineering.
  • Burns
  • Wound healing

Tissue engineering, Reconstruction of skin tissue, Analysis of stem cells, cell culture, skin substitutes.

Prof.

Ghahary, Aziz

ghaharya@yahoo.com

(604) 916-2548

University of Alberta, University of British Columbia
Surgery/ Plastic Surgery
Vancouver,
British Columbia
PhD
  • Basic biomedical
Wound Healing, Hypertrophic scaring and Burn
  • Hypertrophic scaring
  • Burn

Primary dermal cell culture, western blot, ELISA, FACS, histology, immunohistochemical techniques

Dr.
University of Alberta
Medicine/Dermatology
Edmonton,
Alberta
PhD DMSci
  • Clinical
  • Basic biomedical
Cutaneous lymphoma, Psoriasis, Scleroderma, Skin inflammation
  • Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma
  • Mycosis fungoides
  • Psoriasis

Cell culture, genomics, transcriptomics.

Dr.

Gooderham, Melinda

Full profile

mgooderham@centrefordermatology.com

(705) 761-7247

Queen’s University
Peterborough,
Ontario
MD (Dermatology) , Master's (Biochemistry)
  • Basic biomedical
Inflammatory skin diseases
  • Scarring
  • Fibrosis
  • Psoriasis
  • Atopic Dermatitis
  • Pruritus
  • Pressure injuries
  • Radiodermatitis
  • Autoimmune blistering disease
  • Stevens-Johnson syndrome/toxic epidermal necrolysis

Clinical trials, Phase 1 to 4.

Dr.

Granville, David

Full profile

dgranville@icord.org

(604) 675-8869

University of British Columbia
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Vancouver,
British Columbia
PhD
  • Basic biomedical
Wound healing, chronic inflammation, inflammatory skin diseases, burn wounds, pruritus, epithelial barrier function, extracellular matrix remodeling, granzymes, matricellular proteins, drug development
  • Stevens-Johnson syndrome/toxic epidermal necrolysis
  • Autoimmune blistering disease
  • Radiodermatitis
  • Pressure injuries
  • Pruritus
  • Atopic Dermatitis
  • Psoriasis
  • Fibrosis
  • Scarring

In vivo disease modeling, primary cell culture, histology, immunohistochemistry, ELISAs, molecular biology

Prof.
University of British Columbia
Faculty of Dentistry, OBMS
Vancouver,
British Columbia
PhD, DDS
  • Basic biomedical
Wound healing, oral mucosa, skin, fibroblast subpopulations, extracellular matrix
  • Scar formation

Animal models of skin and oral mucosal wound healing (mice, large domestic pigs), cell culture models, cell biology, proteomics, molecular biology, histology, immunohistochemistry.