Ming-sound Tsao

Biography

Dr. Tsao is a Consultant Thoracic Pathologist and Senior Scientist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, and the M. Qasim Choksi Chair in Lung Cancer Translational Research at the University of Toronto. Dr. Tsao received his B.Sc. from the Simon Fraser University and M.D. from the University of British Columbia. He trained as an Anatomic Pathologist at McGill University, and as an experimental pathologist at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine at Chapel Hill. He was a past faculty member in the Department of Pathology at McGill University and the Montreal General Hospital, Montreal, Canada.             Dr. Tsao is a Consultant Thoracic Pathologist and Senior Scientist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, and the M. Qasim Choksi Chair in Lung Cancer Translational Research at the University of Toronto. Dr. Tsao received his B.Sc. from the Simon Fraser University and M.D. from the University of British Columbia. He trained as an Anatomic Pathologist at McGill University, and as an experimental pathologist at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine at Chapel Hill. He was a past faculty member in the Department of Pathology at McGill University and the Montreal General Hospital, Montreal, Canada.            

Research Interest

My primary research interest is in understanding better the genomic and molecular abnormalities in lung and pancreatic cancer, such that we can improve the accuracy of our diagnosis and treatment of these deadly cancers. Comprehensive analysis of these tumors at gene sequence, gene copy number and proteomics levels may provide new “integrated” understanding of the molecular pathology of these tumors.