Senior Investigator, Lady Davis Institute
Associate Professor, Department of Oncology, McGill University
Major Research Activities
Following her training in hematology and oncology, Dr Assouline completed a Master’s program in clinical epidemiology and biostatistics at McGill University, and a CIHR funded drug development fellowship at the National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group. Since 2005, she has been involved in the design and conduct of numerous clinical trials testing novel therapies in patients with leukemia and lymphoma. These therapies include novel targeted monoclonal antibody therapies, proteasome inhibitors, histone deacetylase inhibitors, and drugs targeting protein translation. Dr. Assouline is the Director of the Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia Clinic of the Jewish General Hospital and, in this capacity, has contributed to epidemiological research into the outcome of patients treated with tyrosine kinase inhibitors.