Colin Collins, PhD

Dr. Collins specializes in translational cancer genomics and the applications of integrative analysis of multi-omics data to discovery and functional studies.

Dr. Collins is a tenured UBC Professor at the Department of Urologic Sciences. Based at the Vancouver Prostate Centre, where he leads the Laboratory for Advanced Genome Analysis, Dr. Collins’ lab focuses on translational cancer genomics to study mechanisms of treatment resistance for the benefit of precision oncology. In this context, genomics encompasses proteomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, bioinformatics, and computer science. The acquisition of complex high-dimensional data became increasingly affordable with the rapid advances in genomics, allowing the integration of different omics datasets to profoundly change our approach to investigating the mechanisms of tumour progression and resistance to therapy and enabling precision oncology.

Laboratory members

Colin Collins, Ph.D. (group head); Stéphane LeBihan, Ph.D. (lab manager); Stanislav Volik, Ph.D. (research scientist); Funda Sar Ph.D. (research scientist); Yen-Yi Lin, Ph.D. (bioinformatics); Anne Haegert, BSc (sequencing);  Robert Bell, MSc.(biostatistics, bioinformatics); Hans Adomat (proteomics and analytical pharmacology).