Dr. Nathan Lack

Dr. Nathan Lack is a Senior Research Scientist and the Co-Director of Pharmacology and Drug Design at the Vancouver Prostate Centre. He obtained a DPhil in Pharmacology from the University of Oxford in 2009 and then did a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Vancouver Prostate Centre with Dr. Emma Guns and Professor Paul Rennie. Nathan became an Assistant Professor at Koç University, Turkey in 2011 and was awarded Associate Professorship in 2015. Dr. Lack’s research focuses on non-coding regulatory elements in prostate cancer. The laboratory has obtained extensive funding from national, international and industrial sources. In addition to his academic research, Nathan previously worked for AnorMED Inc., where he was involved in the development of the FDA-approved therapeutic Plerixafor.