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MICHAEL POLLAK


Professor – Department of Medicine, Division of Experimental Medicine

Contact information:

Telephone: (514) 340-8222, ext. 5530
e-mail address: michael.pollak@mcgill.ca
website: http://www.mcgill.ca/pollak-lab/
            http://www.medicine.mcgill.ca/oncology/displayoncology.asp?Oncology_ID=25

Projects for Thesis Supervision:

1. Any projects related to peptide growth factors and neoplasia.


Recent Publications:

Venkateswara, V., Haddad, A.Q., Fleshner, N.E., Fan, R., Sugar, L.M., Nam, R., Klotz, L.H. and Pollak, M. (2007)
Association of diet-induced hyperinsulinemia with accelerated growth of prostate cancer (LNCaP) xenografts. J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 99: 1793-1800.

Raina, K., Blouin, M.J., Singh, R.P., Majeed, N., Deep, G., Varghese, L., Glodé, L.M., Greenberg, N.M., Hwang, D., Cohen, P., Pollak, M.N. and Agarwal, R.  Dietary feeding of silibnin inhibits prostate tumor growth and progression in transgenic adenocarcinoma of the mouse prostate model.  Cancer Res. 67: 11083-11091.

Dowling, R.J., Zakikhani, M., Fantus, I.G., Pollak, M. and Sonenberg, N. (2007)
Metformin inhibits mammalian target of rapamycin-dependent translation initiation in breast cancer cells. Cancer Res. 67: 10804-10812.