Claudia Dos Santos
Toronto, Canada
Dr dos Santos is Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto attending at St Michael’s Hospital MSICU. She holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair for Translational CCM. She is a scientist at the Keenan Research Centre. Her research is aimed at building a world-class program in translational molecular critical care with three distinct areas of expertise: patient-based discovery (omics/bioinformatics); in-vitro mechanistic research; and in-vivo preclinical research. She was scientific director for the Canadian Critical Care Society and is co-director of CRAFT, the Centre for Research and Applications in Fluidic Technologies (CRAFT), a joint venture with the National Research Council of Canada. She creates and leads the PREcision meDIcine for CriTical Care (PREDICT) program and biobank as well as ARIATNE, Advanced RNA-Intelligence for Accelerated Therapeutic Nanoparticle Engineering, a collaboration with the Nanomedicine Innovation Network (NMIN) to develop RNA-therapies for rapid response to infection and pandemic preparedness.