Peter Dirks
Staff Neurosurgeon
Neurosurgery
SickKids
Canada
Biography
Dr. Peter Dirks graduated from Queen's University Medical School in Kingston, Ontario in 1989. Then, he completed his PhD in Molecular and Cellular Pathology in 1997 at the University of Toronto, his neurosurgery training at the University of Toronto in 1998 (Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Canada, 1998) and his Paediatric Neurosurgery Fellowship training at L'hôpital Necker Enfants Malades (Paris) in 1998. Dirks was appointed to Neurosurgical Staff at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and the University of Toronto in 1998 and appointed to the SickKids Research Institute's Developmental & Stem Cell Biology Program in 1999. He established his research laboratory to study brain tumours in the Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumour Research Centre at SickKids in 1999.
Research Interest
Brain tumours Cancer stem cells Neural stem cells Neural development
