Prof. Liam R. Brunham

Prof. Liam R. Brunham

  MD, PhD, University of British Columbia, Canada

 

Liam Brunham is an assistant professor of medicine at the University of British Columbia and a Principal Investigator at the Centre for Heart and Lung Innovation. Dr. Brunham is a general internist with a focus on clinical lipidology and is an attending physician at the Health Heart Program Prevention clinic at St. Paul’s hospital, one of the largest specialty lipid clinics in Canada. He is board certified in internal medicine and clinical lipidology and is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada and the American College of Physicians.
Dr. Brunham’s research focuses on understanding how changes in specific genes contribute to differences in drug-response as well as to alterations in plasma lipid levels and their relationship to metabolic and cardiovascular disease. His laboratory uses human genetics including genome-wide association studies and next-generation sequencing to investigate the role of genetic variation in these phenotypes. His laboratory also uses genome-editing tools and stem-cell based cellular models to dissect the functional impact of genetic variants and investigate molecular mechanisms underlying adverse drug reactions. He is a Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada National New Investigator and a Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator.