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Michael  Pollak

Professor

Oncology; Medicine

FRSQ Chercheur National
Alexander Goldfarb Chair in Medical Oncology

Address:
Jewish General Hospital
Room E763
3755 Côte Ste. Catherine Road
Montreal, QC H3T 1E2

Telephone: 514-340-8222 X 5530
E-mail: michael.pollak@mcgill.ca
Website

Education: M.D., McGill University

Research Focus: Cancer Risk; Cancer Prevention; Hormones; Carcinogenesis; Animal Models; Insulin Resistance; Insulin-Like Growth Factors; Population Studies.

Recent Presentations:

Keystone Symposium on Cancer Metabolism. Banff, February 2012.

Are we winning the war on cancer? 1 Question * 100 Experts * 1 Answer. Lugano, Switzerland, October 2012: Invited Speaker, World Oncology Forum.
Recent Publications:

Pollak M.
The insulin receptor/insulin-like growth factor receptor family as a therapeutic target in oncology. Clini Cancer Res 18: 40-50, 2012.

Larsson O, Morita M, Topisirovic I, Alain T, Blouin MJ, Pollak M, Sonenberg N.
Distinct perturbation of the translatome by the antidiabetic drug metformin. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2012 May 18. Epub ahead of print.

Pollak M.
Investigating metformin for cancer prevention and treatment: the end of the beginning. Cancer Discov 2: 778-90, 2012.