Nadine Kolas
Adjunct Professor
| Degrees: | PhD (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY) |
| Email: | nadine.kolas@hc-sc.gc.ca |
Nadine has 15 years of experience working at the science and policy interface with Health Canada, leading or contributing to science for policy, policy for science, and regulatory policy. Prior to her current role in classification of products regulated under the Food and Drugs Act, she was the policy lead for advanced cell therapies and gene therapies, including on Health Canada’s position on use of autologous stem cells for therapeutic purposes. As a former research scientist, with expertise in the DNA damage response that contributes to genetic diversity and healthy germ cell development, as well as cancer development, she has worked with mouse models of disease, and high throughput human cell genomics approaches. After completing her PhD in molecular genetics with Dr. Paula Cohen at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, she conducted post-doctoral work in the Durocher lab at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute in Toronto where she discovered novel genes that modulate DNA repair. Her work has been published in journals including Science and Cell, she has held fellowships from CIHR and the Terry Fox Research Institute, is an alumnus of the STARS21 Program (formerly the Excellence in Radiation Research for the 21st Century Program), and won the 2008 Polanyi Award for medicine/physiology from the Ontario government. Shifting her focus from research to policy, she joined Health Canada to move more of “what we know” into “what we do”. Prior to joining the medicine regulatory side of Health Canada’s Health Products and Foods Branch, she worked with an expert panel to review the federal ecosystem supporting fundamental research in Canada; and developed operational policies for knowledge translation and research governance to support the management of HECSB’s regulatory research programs including chemicals, nanomaterials, Northern contaminants and air pollution. View a complete list of peer-reviewed publications on Pubmed.