Scientific Member

Lesley Coulton Alpert MD, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Pathology McGill University & Associate Physician, Department of Pathology Sir Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital

MAILING ADDRESS
Department of Pathology
McGill University
3755 Cote St Catherine, Rm G-100
Montreal, Quebec H3T 1E2

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Degree	Year	Discipline/Field Institution and Country
B.A.	1967-1971	Biological Sciences (High Honours) Wellesley College, Massachusetts
M.A.	1971-1974	Physiology University of California at San Francisco, California
Ph.D	1974-1978	Anatomy-Neuroendochrinology Tufts University, Boston MA
M.D.	1976-1979	Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston MA
Residency	1979-1980	Pathology Peter Brent Brigham Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston MA
Residency	1981-1984	Pathology Baylor College of Medicine, Houston TX

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Position Held	Institution/Organization	Department/Faculty	Period
Assistant Professor	Baylor College of Medicine	Pathology	1984-1990
Pathologist	The Methodist Hospital	Pathology	1984-1990
Pathologist	Ben Taub General Hospital	Pathology	1994-1990
Assistant Member	Jewish General Hospital	Pathology	1990-1994
Associate Professor	McGill University	Pathology	1990-present
Associate Member	McGill University	Oncology	1992-present
Project Director	Lady Davis Institute	Medical Research	1992-1994
Associate Member	Jewish General Hospital	Pathology	1994-1999
Clinical Investigator	Lady Davis Institute	Medical Research	1994-present
Scientific Member	McGill University	McGill Centre for Translational Research into Cancer	1996-present
Tissue Bank Director	McGill University	McGill Centre for Translational Research into Cancer	1996-present
Senior Member	McGill University	Pathology	1999-present

RESEARCH SUPPORT

Principal/ Co Investigator	Title of Project	Funding Source and Program	Years of Tenure
H.T. Hung, L. Alpert	Investigation of molecular mechanisms underlying the effects of human chorionic gonadotropin and vitamin D on mammary gland growth and carcinogenesis	McGill Centre for Translational Research in Cancer	1997-1998
M. Trifiro, W. Miller, L. Alpert, C. Gadhirian	Length of the CAG repeat in the androgen receptor gene in breast cancer	McGill Centre for Translational Research in Cancer	1997-1998
P. Brodt, L. Alpert	The role of the regional lymph node stroma in breast carcinoma progression	McGill Centre for Translational Research in Cancer	1998-1999
M.A. Jamali, L. Alpert	Regulation of the DNA repair proteins ERCC2 and Ercc3 by the hepatitis B virus x protein. Implications for Liver carcinogenesis	Cancer Research Society Inc.	1997-1999
M.A. Jamali, L. Alpert	A dose response efficacy study of an angiogenesis inhibitor using the PC3 human prostrate adenocarcinoma cells in Nu/Nu mice	Aeterna Labs	1997-present
M.A. Jamali, L. Alpert	A concomitance of an angiogenesis inhibitor with cytotoxic agents using the mouse mammary adenocarcinoma model in BALB/c mice.	Aeterna Labs	1997-present
P. Brodt, L. Alpert, P Metrakos	Tumour-endothelial cell interactions in liver meatstasis	MRC	1999-2004