Jeffrey Lipton

Biosketch – Jeff Lipton, PhD MD FRCPC

Jeff Lipton is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto and a Staff Physician on the Leukemia and Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplant Services at the Princess Margaret Hospital. He received and honors BSc in Biochemistry at the University of Calgary and went on to to a PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Western Ontario. An MRC post-doctoral fellowship at the Weizmann Institute in Israel with Leo Sachs led to his developing interests in leukemia. After a short time as a junior staff at the University of Connecticut, he had a mid-life crisis and went back to Calgary to go to medical school, followed by a residency in Internal Medicine. He then completed sub-specialty training in Medical Oncology at the University of Toronto and stayed on a the PMH as a staff physician. His clinical practice is in chronic leukemias and bone marrow failure syndromes as well as allogeneic stem cell transplant. Research interests in particular are in CML and its therapy, outcomes and supportive care in BMT, especially the therapy of fungal infection and in the therapy of bone marrow failure syndromes. Jeff serves on the Unrelated Donor Transplant Advisory Board of the CBS, is an advisor to the Center for Research on Bone Marrow Transplantation (CIBMTR), has served on the Clinical Trials Group of the CBMTG, chief of the allogeneic stem stem cell transplant program at PMH and is on several international advisory boards relating to the therapy of CML. He has authored or co-authored more than 125 peer reviewed papers and 100 abstracts.