Professor Daniel Schramek

Department of Molecular Genetics, Faculty of Medicine/University of Toronto

Dr. Daniel Schramek is a Senior Investigator and named Kierans-Janigan Cancer Research Scientist at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute at Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital and an Associate Professor at the Department of Molecular Genetics, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, where he holds a tier II Canadian Research Chair in Functional Cancer Genomics. Daniel was awarded an MSc in Molecular Biology from the University of Vienna, conducting his thesis work under the supervision Prof. Roger Daly at the Garvan Institute in Sydney. Upon returning to Vienna, Daniel performed his PhD work under the supervision of Prof. Josef Penninger, before pursuing postdoctoral work with Prof. Elaine Fuchs at the Rockefeller University. His lab pioneers research in functional cancer genomics using mouse models of Head & Neck, breast, brain, and pancreatic cancer with the goal to elucidate the genetic drivers as well as genotype-specific vulnerabilities and novel drug targets to treat these fetal cancers.