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Presenter Information: Dr. Calum MacAulay
Presenter Bio
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Dr. MacAulay is currently the Head of the Cancer Imaging Department, B.C. Cancer Research Centre, B.C. Cancer Agency where his work focuses on the quantitative imaging of early cancers at both the macroscopic and microscopic level using light and its interaction with tissue. Research interests include reflectance and fluorescence spectroscopy and other techniques of optical imaging in the diagnosis of pre-cancers and cancers, as well as the development of computer-assisted image based quantitative pathology for the analysis of cellular and tissue specimens. PhD (1989) from UBC in Physics, MSc (1985) from Dalhousie University in Physics, and an Engineering Physics BSc (1982) from Dalhousie. Dr. Calum MacAulay is Clinical Associate Professor Pathology Department, Faculty of Medicine, an associate member of the department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of British Columbia.
Dr. MacAulay has been awarded i) The B.C. Lung Association Scholar (1990-1995), ii) The Friesen-Rygiel Prize for outstanding Canadian academic discovery leading to uniquely positioned commercialization opportunities (1999), and iii) The Young Innovator Award, B.C. Science and Technology Award, Science Council of B.C.(1999). He has been involved in the invention and development of 6 technologies currently licensed to companies for the clinical detection of early cancers.
Dr. MacAulay’s research is focused on the early detection of cancer of the lung, cervix and oral cavity.
He has 152 career publications and 26 awarded patents. |
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