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Connie Eaves, Ph.D.
Dr. Eaves joined the BC Cancer Agency as a Senior Scientist and the Department of Medical Genetics of the University of British Columbia as an Assistant Professor in 1973. She was a co-founder of the Terry Fox Laboratory in 1981, and became its Deputy Director in 1986 and Director in 2007. She has received numerous scholarships and awards, including election as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1993 and receipt of the NCIC annual Robert L. Noble Prize for Excellence in Cancer Research in 2003.

Her Ph.D. studies discovered that 2 cell populations contribute to the generation of antibody responses heralding the subsequent recognition of B and T cells. She has since contributed many seminal advances to our understanding of blood-forming stem cells and their regulation in both normal and perturbed states, with a particular emphasis on chronic myeloid leukemia. Over the last decade, she has also become an expert in breast stem cells and human embryonic stem cells.

She has published almost 400 papers and continues to direct an active and dynamic research group. She is a major protagonist of excellence in the training of postgraduate students and fellows having personally supervised more than 75 graduate students and post-doctoral fellows (both post-M.D. and post-Ph.D.). She has also served in many senior leadership positions including the Presidency of the Canadian NCI in 1997-8 and the Presidency of the International Society for Experimental Hematology in 2002-3. She continues to review grants and papers for both national and international audiences and sustains an interest in promoting collaborative translational and interdisciplinary research activities and programs.

Updated: April 16, 2009