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Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum
Research Institute
Mount Sinai Hospital
Joseph & Wolf Lebovic Health Complex
600 University Avenue
Toronto Ontario M5G 1X5
Tel: 416-586-4800 ext.6196
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Dr.
Laurence Pelletier
INVESTIGATOR
Dr.
Laurence Pelletier is a Senior Investigator in the
Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum's Centre for Systems Biology, where he studies
molecular mechanisms in cells that regulate cell division. A better
understanding of these fundamental processes has important implications
for chromosomal diseases and for cancer.
Dr. Pelletier's research brings
together the power of the Human Genome Project with leading-edge
microscopy of living cells. He uses these technologies to identify and
study the components of the cell involved in cell division, and to
investigate their role in healthy development and
diseases.
In August 2008, the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum
received the OMX (Optical microscopy eXperimental) -- one of the
world's highest-resolution light microscopes and the only one of
its kind in Canada. The OMX uses lasers, high-speed cameras and
computers to produce impressive images and gives scientists the
clearest view ever seen of cells in real time. This will help
researchers study and better understand a variety of biological systems
and ultimately help unlock some answers to cancer and birth
defects.
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