About Michael Olson

Michael Olson is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Molecular Cell Biology, in the Department of Chemistry and Biology at Toronto Metropolitan University. His research seeks to identify and understand the characteristics of cancer cells that are prone to migrate from their primary sites to secondary sites (known as metastasis) so that drugs can be created to treat cancer more effectively. He is also the editor-in-chief of Small GTPases.

Education

Institute of Cancer Research, London UK
Institute of Cancer Research Fellow

University College London, London UK
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Fellow

University of Toronto, Toronto Canada
PhD, Pharmacology

University of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Bachelors of Science, Genetics

Academic & Professional Positions

2018 – Present

Toronto Metropolitan University — Toronto, Canada
Tier 1 Canada Research Chair, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biology

University of Glasgow — Glasgow, UK
Honorary Senior Lecturer, Institute of Cancer Sciences

2004 – 2018

Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute — Glasgow, UK
Senior Group Leader, Director of Graduate Studies

University of Glasgow — Glasgow, UK
Professor of Molecular Oncology, Deputy Postgraduate Convenor, Institute of Cancer Sciences

2001 – 2004

University of Pennsylvania — Philadelphia, USA
Assistant Investigator, Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute
Assistant Professor, Department of Cancer Biology
Assistant Professor, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology

1998 – 2001

Institute of Cancer Research — London, UK
University Research Fellow of The Royal Society