Heyu Ni, MD, Ph.D.
Platform Director, Hematology, Cancer and Immunological Diseases, St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto
Professor, Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Univ. of Toronto • Professor, Medicine, University of Toronto
Professor, Physiology, University of Toronto
Senior Scientist, Canadian Blood Services Centre for Innovation
Scientist, Laboratory Medicine, St. Michael's Hospital • Passed President, SCBA Toronto Chapter

Dr. Ni’s laboratory currently investigates the roles of adhesion molecules involved in thrombosis and hemostasis, inflammation/immune response, and tumorigenesis. His research team is currently studying the mechanisms of these processes using a confocal intravital microscopy suite, proteomics, and gene targeted mice. By directly monitoring molecular/cellular events in vivo, they hope to uncover some novel mechanisms of platelet aggregation, platelet-leukocyte/cancer cell interactions to enrich our knowledge in heart attack and stroke, inflammation and tumor metastasis. The laboratory also studies allo- and autoimmune diseases related to bleeding disorders such as Immune Thrombocytopenia (ITP), Fetal and Neonatal Alloimmune Thrombocytopenia (FNAIT). They have established several novel murine models of ITP and FNAIT. His studies have been well funded by both internal and external grant agencies including Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) project, and CIHR Foundation, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada (HSFC), Canadian Blood Services (CBS), Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI), National Institutes of Health (NIH, USA), and NSFC-CIHR (China- Canada Joint Health Research Initiative Program). Dr. Ni has many high impact publications, acts as a reviewer for more than 20 scientific journals, sits on various scientific committees and granting agencies in Canada (HSFC, CIHR, NSFCCIHR), China (NSFC), US (NIH), and Europe, and lectures at the local, national and international level. Dr. Ni have published >130 papers, and 3 book chapters, many in high impact journals, such as Blood (22), JCI (5), Nature series (5), Science Translational Medicine (1), PNAS (1), JEM (1), Circ Res (1), Diabetes (1) and Circulation (1). He is the first/senior author for 80 publications, have been cited ~ 5700 times, with an h-index of 44 (5yr h-index 36). Selected Awards: Graduate Student Mentorship Award (Faculty of Medicine), University of Toronto; Undergraduate Education Award, University of Toronto; S. C. Verma Young Investigator Award (Heart & Stroke/ Richard Lewar Centre of Excellence), University of Toronto; Keating Award for Hematology 2018.