Walter Kahr

Biography

Dr. Kahr received his MD and PhD (Biochemistry) from the University of Toronto in 1994. Following post-graduate training in Internal Medicine at the University of Toronto (1994-1997), Dr. Kahr completed a haematology fellowship in the Department of Medicine (1997-1999) and a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine (1999-2002) at McMaster University in Hamilton. During his post-doctoral fellowship, Dr. Kahr discovered that the underlying inherited bleeding defect in the Québec platelet disorder was the abnormal expression of urokinase in patient platelets. Dr. Kahr joined the Division of Haematology/Oncology at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in 2003 as a Clinician-Scientist. He has set up a research laboratory in the Cell Biology Program and is the recipient of a Phase II Clinician Scientist Award from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario. Dr. Kahr's clinical interests are in the field of haemostasis and thrombosis and his research focus is on the development and function of platelets in health and disease.

Research Interest

Inherited platelet function defects Mechanisms of megakaryocyte and platelet granule formation and secretion Role of VPS33B in megakaryocyte amd platelet alpha granule biogenesis