New Investigator Clinical Trials Course Faculty Philippe Bedard is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is a Staff Medical Oncologist in the Division of Medical Oncology and the Fellowship Director for the Bras Drug Development Program at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre. He received the 2017 William E. Rawls Prize from the Canadian Cancer Society. He is a Past Chair of the Canadian Clinical Trials Group (CCTG) Investigational New Drug (IND) Committee. His clinical practice includes the treatment of patients with breast and testicular cancers. His research involves early phase clinical trials with novel cancer drug treatments including immunotherapy agents and the personalization of cancer treatment based upon the results of testing for DNA mutations within tumor cells.
