Joanna Przybyl

Title: 
Assistant Professor, Surgery; Associate Member, Pathology, Medicine (Exp. Med.)
Joanna Przybyl
Contact Information
Address: 

RI-MUHC, Glen site
Block E, EM2.3218
1001 boul. Décarie
Montreal, QC H4A 3J1

Email address: 
joanna.przybyl [at] mcgill.ca
Phone: 
(514) 934-1934 x37751
Degree(s): 

PhD

Area(s): 
Cancer
Liquid biopsy
Research
Biography: 

Dr. Przybyl is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery, McGill University and a Principal Investigator in the Cancer Research Program of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC). 
Dr. Przybyl is also an Associate Member of the Department of Pathology, McGill University, and an Associate Member of the Division of Experimental Medicine in the Department of Medicine, McGill University.
Dr. Przybyl pursues a research program focused on the clinical applications of liquid biopsy, metabolic reprogramming and multi-omic profiling of sarcoma. 

Dr. Joanna Przybyl received a joint Ph.D. degree in biomedical sciences from KU Leuven, Belgium and Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland. Her doctoral studies focused on identifying new prognostic and predictive markers for soft tissue sarcoma. She then joined the laboratory of Dr. Matt van de Rijn in the Department of Pathology at Stanford University, where she completed her postdoctoral training in computational biology. During her postdoctoral studies, Dr. Przybyl demonstrated potential clinical utility of ctDNA monitoring in patients with leiomyosarcoma and leiomyoma, discovered activation and prognostic role of hexosamine biosynthesis pathway in leiomyosarcoma, and identified macrophage infiltration in undifferentiated uterine sarcomas. 

Current research: 

Dr. Przybyl's research group employs multi-omic high-throughput experimental methods and bioinformatic tools to discover new therapeutic targets and markers for diagnosis and classification of soft tissue sarcomas. The goal of her research is to develop clinically applicable assays and investigate new therapeutic approaches that will improve care for patients with soft tissue tumours.

Selected publications: 
Location: 
RI-MUHC
Group: 
Associate Members
PhD Researchers
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