Pamela Ohashi

Dr. Ohashi received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto with Dr. Tak Mak, and did her post-doctoral training at the University of Zurich with the Nobel Laureate Dr. Zinkernagel, and Dr. Hans Hengartner. She is the Co-Director of the Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer Research, Senior Scientist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, and Professor in the Departments of Medical Biophysics and Immunology at the University of Toronto. She is also Director of the Tumor Immunotherapy Program at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre. Her interests include understanding CD8+ T cell biology and mechanisms that regulate anti-tumor immunity.

Dr. Ohashi has received a number of prestigious awards and honors including the American Association of Immunologists (AAI) Pharmingen Investigator Award, the National Cancer Institute of Canada’s William E. Rawls Award, the Canadian Society of Immunology’s Investigator Award and Cinader Award as well as a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair. She recently received the Canadian Cancer Society’s Robert L. Noble Prize. She served as Chair of the Cancer Immunotherapy Steering Committee of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) and was elected as a member of the Royal Society of Canada. She currently is a member of the Executive Council for the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC).