Dr. Mark Basik
Herbert Black Professor of Surgical Oncology
MDCM
Drug resistance and liquid biopsy in breast cancer
Breast cancer
Dr. Mark Basik was born in Montreal, graduated in medicine from Ï㽶ÊÓƵ, completed a general Surgery Residency at the Université de Montreal, followed by a fellowship in Surgical Oncology at Roswell Park Cancer Institute. He was a visiting investigator at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda. He returned to Montreal in 2003, where he is now practicing breast cancer surgery at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, QC, and he is the Herbert Black professor of Surgical Oncology at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ. He heads the Cancer Genomics and Translational Research Laboratory at the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research. His research interests include understanding the causes of resistance to therapy in breast cancer as well as developing new diagnostic blood tests for breast cancer.
Recent articles:
Aguilar-Mahecha A, Lafleur J, Brousse S, Savichtcheva O, Holden KA, Faulkner N, McLennan G, Jensen TJ, Basik M. Cancers (Basel). 2021 Mar 16;13(6):1331. doi: 10.3390/cancers13061331.
Cavallone L, Aguilar-Mahecha A, Lafleur J, Brousse S, Aldamry M, Roseshter T, Lan C, Alirezaie N, Bareke E, Majewski J, Ferrario C, Hassan S, Discepola F, Seguin C, Mihalcioiu C, Marcus EA, Robidoux A, Roy JA, Pelmus M, Basik M. Sci Rep. 2020 Sep 7;10(1):14704. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-71236-y.
Sirois I, Aguilar-Mahecha A, Lafleur J, Fowler E, Vu V, Scriver M, Buchanan M, Chabot C, Ramanathan A, Balachandran B, Légaré S, Przybytkowski E, Lan C, Krzemien U, Cavallone L, Aleynikova O, Ferrario C, Guilbert MC, Benlimame N, Saad A, Alaoui-Jamali M, Saragovi HU, Josephy S, O'Flanagan C, Hursting SD, Richard VR, Zahedi RP, Borchers CH, Bareke E, Nabavi S, Tonellato P, Roy JA, Robidoux A, Marcus EA, Mihalcioiu C, Majewski J, Basik M. Mol Cancer Res. 2019 Dec;17(12):2492-2507. doi: 10.1158/1541-7786.MCR-19-0264. Epub 2019 Sep 19.
Gui Y, Aguilar-Mahecha A, Krzemien U, Hosein A, Buchanan M, Lafleur J, Pollak M, Ferrario C, Basik M. Clin Cancer Res. 2019 Dec 1;25(23):7229-7242. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-19-1268. Epub 2019 Sep 12.