Walter H.a. Kahr
Associate Professor
Department of Biochemistry
University of Toronto
Canada
Biography
He has received my 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), He completed a hematology 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 He discovered that bleeding problems in patients with the rare inherited Québec platelet disorder arose from the abnormal expression of urokinase in their platelets. This information aided the effective treatment of this bleeding disorder. As a clinician-scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children He follow children with bleeding and clotting disorders. his research is focused on understanding the structure and function of platelets – the smallest cells in the blood – and how they develop from megakaryocytes, the largest cells in the bone marrow.
Research Interest
Structure and Function of Platelets and Their Development from Megakaryocytes
