Cynthia Hawkins
Neuropathologist
Paediatric Laboratory Medicine
SickKids
Canada
Biography
Dr. Hawkins obtained her PhD in 1996 and her MD in 1997 from the University of Western Ontario. She completed her residency training in neuropathology at the University of Toronto in 2002, including a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Zurich. Dr. Hawkins joined The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) as a neuropathologist in 2002 and has been appointed at the Research Institute in the Cell Biology program since 2004. She is a principal investigator at the Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumour Research Centre and a Professor at the University of Toronto.
Research Interest
Molecular pathogenesis and therapeutics for paediatric astrocytomas, in particular diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG)
