Joseph Brandwein

Area of Study / Keywords

leukemia chemotherapy drug resistance apoptosis acute myeloid leukemia acute lymphoblastic leukemia Clinical trial

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About

Dr. Brandwein is a Professor in the Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine at the University of Alberta, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Oncology. He graduated from McGill University Medical School in 1983 and completed his internal medicine residency at Dalhousie University, followed by a hematology residency in Vancouver. He then completed a research fellowship in leukemia and autologous bone marrow transplantation at the Toronto General Hospital. He worked as an academic clinical hematologist at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto for nearly ten years. From 2000-2013, he was a clinical investigator in the Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology at Princess Margaret Hospital/University Health Network in Toronto. He joined the faculty at the University of Alberta in August, 2013. 

His major academic focus has been clinical research in acute leukemias and related hematologic malignancies. He has completed a number of investigator-initiated clinical studies evaluating novel treatments for leukemia, and performed extensive evaluations of prognostic factors in AML and ALL. He has over 180 peer-reviewed publications in this area, and has been an invited speaker at numerous national and international meetings. He was the NCIC National Chair of an international clinical trial in AML, and was also the chair and lead author of a national group of leukemia experts that developed consensus guidelines for the treatment of AML in the elderly. He is a member of the executive of the recently formed Canadian Leukemia Study Group.

Dr. Brandwein's  research efforts are directed toward the pre-clinical evaluation of potential new therapeutic approaches in acute leukemia, with a focus on understanding mechanisms of drug resistance and circumventing these, in collaboration with other researchers at the University.  He serves as Director of the Adult Hematology Clinical Research Program at the University of Alberta Hospital, coordinating early and late phase clinical trials across the spectrum of hematology. In addition, he was instrumental in setting up the Marshall Eliuk Fund in Hematology, which promotes clinical research, innovation and fellowship training in Hematology at the University, and serves on its steering committee.

Andre C. Schuh, Joseph Brandwein, Mahmoud Elsawy, David Sanford, Brian Leber

Current Oncology. 2026 July; 10.3390/curroncol33070431

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Andre C. Schuh, Nicholas Chornenki, Mohamed A. Elemary, Mahmoud Elsawy, Brett L. Houston, Brian Leber, Lee Mozessohn, Mitchell Sabloff, Brittany Salter, David Sanford, Joseph Brandwein

Current Oncology. 2026 July; 10.3390/curroncol33070429

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Joseph Brandwein, Artur Szkotak, David Page, Peng Wang

Leukemia Research. 2026 May; 10.1016/j.leukres.2026.108206

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Joseph Brandwein, David Page, Elena Liew, Jennifer Croden, Peng Wang

Clinical Lymphoma Myeloma and Leukemia. 2026 February; 10.1016/j.clml.2025.10.027

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Joseph Brandwein, David Page, Elena Liew, Mark Hnatiuk, Lauren Bolster, Marlene Hamilton, Daniel Sawler, Peng Wang

Clinical Lymphoma Myeloma and Leukemia. 2025 July; 10.1016/j.clml.2025.01.024

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A Zeidan, P Fenaux, M Gobbi, J Mayer, G Roboz, J Krauter, T Robak, H Kantarjian, J Novak, W Jedrzejczak, X Thomas, M Ojeda-Uribe, Y Miyazaki, Y H Min, S-P Yeh, J Brandwein, L Gercheva, J Demeter, E Griffiths, K Yee, J-P Issa, J Bewersdorf, H Keer, Y Hao, M Azab, and H Döhner.

Blood. 2022 May; 10.1182/blood.2022015832

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Rücker F.G., Du L., Luck T.J., Benner A., Krzykalla J., Gathmann I., Voso M.T., Amadori S., Prior T.W., Brandwein J.M., Appelbaum F.R., Medeiros B.C., Tallman M.S., Savoie L., Sierra J., Pallaud C., Sanz M.A., Jansen J.H., Niederwieser D., Fischer T., Ehninger G., Heuser M., Ganser A., Bullinger L., Larson R.A., Bloomfield C.D., Stone R.M., Döhner H., Thiede C., Döhner K.

Leukemia. 2022 January; 36 (1):90-99 10.1038/s41375-021-01323-0

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162. De Botton S; Brandwein J; Wei,A ; Pigneux A; Quesnel B; Thomas X; Legrand O; Recher C; Chantepie S; Hunault M; Boissel N; Nehme S ; Frattini M; Tosolini A; Marion-Gallois R; Wang J; Cameron C; Siddiqui M; Hutton B; Milkovich G; Stein E.

Cancer Medicine. 2021 September; 10 (18):6336-6343 10.1002/cam4.4182. Epub 2021 Aug 24.PMID: 34427990

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Mohseni M., Kucharski C., Remant Bahadur K.C., Nasrullah M., Jiang X., Uludag H., Brandwein J.

PLoS ONE. 2021 June; 16 (6 June) 10.1371/journal.pone.0251719

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Daver N., Salhotra A., Brandwein J.M., Podoltsev N.A., Pollyea D.A., Jurcic J.G., Assouline S., Yee K., Li M., Pourmohamad T., Samineni D., Sumiyoshi T., Vaze A., Dere R.C., Ma C., Cooper J.

American Journal of Hematology. 2021 May; 96 (5):E175-E179 10.1002/ajh.26136

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Larson R.A., Mandrekar S.J., Huebner L.J., Sanford B.L., Laumann K., Geyer S., Bloomfield C.D., Thiede C., Prior T.W., Döhner K., Marcucci G., Voso M.T., Klisovic R.B., Galinsky I., Wei A.H., Sierra J., Sanz M.A., Brandwein J.M., de Witte T., Niederwieser D., Appelbaum F.R., Medeiros B.C., Tallman M.S., Krauter J., Schlenk R.F., Ganser A., Serve H., Ehninger G., Amadori S., Gathmann I., Döhner H., Stone R.M.

Leukemia. 2021 January; 10.1038/s41375-021-01179-4

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Joseph M. Brandwein, Darren Hallett, Mohammad Karkhaneh, Nancy Zhu, Elena Liew, Lauren Bolster, Marlene Hamilton, Jeffrey Patterson, Minakshi Taparia, Cynthia Wu, Tiffany Van Slyke, Aniket Bankar, Lalit Saini

American Journal of Hematology. 2021 January; 10.1002/ajh.26012

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American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting 2020. 2020 December;

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Voso M.T., Larson R.A., Jones D., Marcucci G., Prior T., Krauter J., Heuser M., Lavorgna S., Nomdedeu J., Geyer S.M., Walker A., Wei A.H., Sierra J., Sanz M.A., Brandwein J.M., de Witte T.M., Jansen J.H., Niederwieser D., Appelbaum F.R., Medeiros B.C., Tallman M.S., Schlenk R.F., Ganser A., Amadori S., Cheng Y., Chen Y.M., Pallaud C., Du L., Piciocchi A., Ehninger G., Byrd J., Thiede C., Döhner K., Stone R.M., Döhner H., Bloomfield C.D., Lo-Coco F.

Blood Advances. 2020 October; 4 (19):4945-4954 10.1182/BLOODADVANCES.2020002904

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