Dr. Davor Brinc

Biography

Davor Brinc is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, specializing in Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology. He earned his HonBSc degree in Immunology from the University of Zagreb before completing his PhD in Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto. After his graduate work in immunohematology, he completed a Postdoctoral Diploma Program in Clinical Chemistry, which included extensive rotations in various specialties, including pediatric clinical chemistry and toxicology. His postdoctoral research was conducted at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute alongside Dr. Diamandis, focusing on advanced cancer detection techniques. Currently, he serves as a consultant clinical chemist at the University Health Network and the Michael Garron Hospital. His research aims to discover disease biomarkers and improve clinical laboratory applications, utilizing innovative methods such as immuno-mass spectrometry for detecting post-translational modifications in proteins. His efforts are particularly focused on the challenges of biomarker discovery, given the complexity and low abundance of informative biomarkers in body fluids. Davor has published numerous articles related to immunoassays and protein quantification in high-impact journals and continues to contribute significantly to the field of clinical chemistry.

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