Brian Lichty
Associate Professor, Medicine

Dr. Brian Lichty has extensive expertise in oncolytic viruses and related immunotherapies. He has been a professor in the Department of Pathology & Molecular Medicine and the McMaster Immunology Research Centre (MIRC) at McMaster University since 2004. He is also a co-founder of Turnstone Biologics. Dr. Lichty’s expertise includes influence research in the identification of strategies to leverage oncolytic viruses to harness the patient’s immune system in a sustainable manner, including vaccine design and engineering to directly engage the adaptive immune system tumour-specific and/or to enhance combinations with other immunotherapies. He is also director of the Robert E. Fitzhenry vector lab at McMaster where clinical grade viral vaccines are manufactured for human clinical trials. Dr. Brian Lichty received his PhD from the University of Toronto and holds a BSc from the University of Guelph.
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