Professor, UBC Department of Psychiatry, Division of Neuroscience and Translational Psychiatry
Email: rholt@bcgsc.ca
Short Biography
Dr. Holt obtained his science undergraduate degree from the University of British Columbia and his PhD in Pharmacology from the University of Alberta. In 1998, after a short postdoctoral fellowship in Molecular Evolution at the State University of New York, Dr. Holt joined Celera Genomics in Rockville, Maryland where he served as the Scientific Operations Manager for the initial sequencing of the human genome. Since 2003 Dr. Holt has been a scientist at Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre located at the BC Cancer Research Institute.
Research Focus
Dr. Holt’s work is focused on the structural diversity of T cell and B cell receptors to genetically engineer immune cells to treat cancer and on the relationship between pathogens and cancer including the development of vaccines against carcinogenic pathogens.
Lab website: http://www.holtlab.ca/
