Dr. Jordan Lerner-Ellis
Dr. Lerner-Ellis is a clinical molecular geneticist who serves as Head of the Advanced Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory at Mount Sinai Hospital; Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto in the department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology and Associate at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research.
In addition to his core interests in molecular diagnostics, as applied to breast and colon cancer, a major aim of his research is to integrate genome sequencing into the general practice of medicine. His research aims to improve our understanding of the relationship between DNA variants and disease using technologies for data sharing and variant interpretation.
The Advanced Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory (AMD) at Mount Sinai Hospital is a clinically certified lab that serves as an international reference centre for molecular diagnostics. The lab has a focus in hereditary breast, ovarian; and colon cancer. Clinical services extend to tumour genotyping and microsatellite instability; gastrointestinal stromal tumours; a variety of sarcomas; and coagulopathies.
The AMD, located within Mount Sinai’s Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, includes one of the world’s largest collections of cancer-related patient samples, which also comprises a large number of tumour-normal tissues and DNA specimens. As a service genetics lab for clinicians, AMD processes approximately 10,000 patient samples per year.
Lunenfeld- Tanenbaum Research Institute
Mount Sinai Hospital
600 University Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
M5G 1X5
Web of Science Researcher ID J-5559-2016