Michelle Brazas
Director, Adaptive Oncology at Bioinformatics.ca
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMichelle Brazas, PhD, is a strategic leader in cancer research and bioinformatics with over 15 years of experience building national training platforms and multi-million dollar research initiatives. As Director of Adaptive Oncology at OICR she oversees a province-wide portfolio of programs, resources and projects, driving cross-functional collaboration and measurable research impact reflected in hundreds of publications and high citation rates. She co-led the transformation of Bioinformatics.ca into the Canadian Bioinformatics Hub, securing $6M to professionalize national training and community networks that have trained thousands of scientists. Known for combining deep domain expertise in genomics, oncology and infectious disease with strengths in adult learning and knowledge translation, she also pioneers patient-partner integration and inclusive community-building practices. Anecdotally, Michelle has repeatedly turned operational programs into sustainable national infrastructure—whether launching an applied lab at BCIT with CFI funding or reshaping workshop formats to better meet researcher needs.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Hon. B.Sc, Pharmacology, Hon. B.Sc, Pharmacology at McMaster UniversityPhD, Microbiology, PhD, Microbiology at The University of British Columbia
Github Skills (19)
genomics8
tla8
cancer-genomics8
taxonomy8
bioinformatics7
specification7
markup6
markdown5
operation2
seq1
python1
cloud-infrastructure1
browser1
terraform1
javascript1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bioinformaticsdotca/CSHL_2019
Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
Contributions:155 commits, 142 pushes in 1 month
bioinformaticsdotca/RNAseq_2019
May 2019 - Jun 2019
Content for RNAseq 2019 workshop
Contributions:34 commits, 1 PR, 33 pushes in 1 month
rnaseqworkshop
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