Michael Ohh
Professor
Department of Biochemistry
University of Toronto
Canada
Biography
Professor Ohh received his PhD from the University of British Columbia and was a Medical Research Council and National Cancer Institute of Canada postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. William G. Kaelin Jr., Howard Hughes Investigator and National Academy of Science Member at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School. Professor Ohh is known for his pioneering and paradigm-shifting work in the field of hypoxia signalling and cancer cell biology, and has published 75 peer-reviewed articles in journals with broad readership such as Nature Medicine, Cancer Cell, EMBO Journal, Science, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences with an H-index of 40, i10-index of 62 and over 10,000 total citations. Professor Ohh is a recipient of the Canadian Cancer Society’s Bernard and Francine Dorval Prize, Premier’s Research Excellence Award and Canada Research Chair in Molecular Oncology.
Research Interest
Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer
