• Afshin Raouf
  • Associate professor

    Department of Immunology
    Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba
    613 Basic Medical Sciences Building
    745 Bannatyne Avenue
    Winnipeg, Manitoba R3E 0W2

    Phone: 204-975-7704
    Email: afshin.raouf@umanitoba.ca

Research summary

Dr. Afshin Raouf is interested in developing more effective therapies for malignant breast cancer tumors, developing stem cell therapies for chronic non-healing wounds, and studying cancer, transplantation and cell therapy, wound healing, and stem cell therapy. He is the team leader for the TFRI-Prairie Cancer Research Consortium and breast cancer research group, and the Manitoba Breast Cancer Research group. Dr. Raouf's research program is focused on understanding the role of tissue environment and the tissue resident immune cells in healing and response to therapy. He uses patient samples to recreate the tumour microenvironment and understand the immunobiology of breast cancer tumours and uses primary human cells to create wound healing models to examine the immune suppressive properties of mesenchymal stem cells and how they can be used to improve chronic non-healing wounds. 

Research interests

Development of more effective therapies against malignant breast cancer tumours

Develop stem cell therapies for chronic non-healing wounds

Keywords

Breast cancer

Tumour microenvironment

Cancer stem cells

Adult stem cells

Wound healing

Cancer therapy

Transplantation

Cell therapy

Mesenchymal stem cells

Immunobiology

Research affiliations

Senior scientist at CancerCare Manitoba, Research Institute in Hematology and Oncology (RIOH), and Manitoba Institute of Cell Biology (MICB)

Co-chair of Terry Fox Research Institute-Prairie Cancer Research Consortium (TFRI-PCRC) Breast Cancer Research Group

Holds the Manitoba Foundation for Breast Cancer (MFBF) Chair in Chronic Wound Healing & Stem Cell Therapy

Team leader of Manitoba Breast Cancer Research Group

Research groups

Manitoba Breast Cancer Research Group

Application of mesenchymal stem cells to wound healing

Biography

Dr. Afshin Raouf is as an associate professor in immunology at the Max Rady College of Medicine. He is a senior scientist at CancerCare Manitoba, Research Institute in Hematology and Oncology, Manitoba Institute of Cell Biology, and also holds the MFBF Chair in Chronic Wound Healing & Stem Cell Therapy. Dr. Raouf's research interests include developing more effective therapies for malignant breast cancer tumors, developing stem cell therapies for chronic non-healing wounds, and studying cancer, transplantation and cell therapy, wound healing, and stem cell therapy. He is the team leader for the TFRI-Prairie Cancer Research Consortium and breast cancer research group, and the Manitoba Breast Cancer Research group. Dr. Raouf holds a PhD degree from the University of Toronto, and his postdoctoral training in the Terry Fox Labs in Vancouver, BC focused on normal and malignant stem cell biology. He is an active member of the CIHR College of Reviewers and serves as an ad hoc reviewer for high-impact journals such as Cell, Cell Stem Cell, and PNAS. Dr. Raouf is accepting graduate students for both Masters and PhD programs.

Education

Postdoctoral fellowship at BC Cancer Agency (2009)

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from the University of Toronto (2002)

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) from the University of Toronto (1996)

Contact us

Immunology
Max Rady College of Medicine
Apotex Centre
Room 471, 750 McDermot Avenue
University of Manitoba (Bannatyne campus)
Winnipeg, MB R3E 0T5 Canada

204-789-3509
204-789-3921
204-480-1347