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Osvaldo Espin Garcia

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Assistant ProfessorBiostatistics DivisionUniversity of Toronto

Osvaldo Espin Garcia

Assistant Professor

Biostatistics Division

Dalla Lana School of Public Health

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Scholar

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46 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 4 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.

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Publications

1,259

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Grants

Publications by year

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Education

PhD
MMath
BSc

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Research

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Latest papers

Understanding Motor Adaptation in the Transition to Sustained Pain: Protocol for a Longitudinal Experimental Study.
JMIR research protocols · 2026
Responders vs. non-responders to mesenchymal stromal cells in knee osteoarthritis: Mechanistic correlates of donor cell and patient features.
Stem cell reports · 2026
Methods for classifying physical activities using accelerometer data: a scoping review.
NPJ digital medicine · 2026 · senior author

All 88 publications

Latest funding

Application of Multi-Omics and Deep Learning for Endotyping and Theratyping in Osteoarthritis
CIHR · 2026 · Co-investigator
$726,752
Determining the safety and efficacy of microRNA-181a-5p blocker as a potential therapy for the treatment of osteoarthritis
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$684,675
Understanding the impact of age and frailty on immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) outcomes in cancer patients
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$153,000

All 6 grants and awards

88 publications.

Understanding Motor Adaptation in the Transition to Sustained Pain: Protocol for a Longitudinal Experimental Study.

Duport A, Phylactou P, Diotalevi G, Arseneau D, Ngoc Minh Pham T, Lowndes A, Espin-Garcia O, Seminowicz DA, Schabrun SM

JMIR research protocols2026

DOI: 10.2196/99833 PMID: 42313885

Responders vs. non-responders to mesenchymal stromal cells in knee osteoarthritis: Mechanistic correlates of donor cell and patient features.

Robb KP, Rabani R, Vohra S, Singh S, Chahal J, Audet J, Perruccio AV, Naraghi A, Gandhi R, Espin-Garcia O, Viswanathan S

Stem cell reports2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2026.103024 PMID: 42561945

Methods for classifying physical activities using accelerometer data: a scoping review.

Sadeghi Janbahan K, Espin-Garcia O

NPJ digital medicine2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1038/s41746-026-02694-3 PMID: 42091626

Predicting Dementia Risk: Progress, Pitfalls, and Priorities.

Nistor P, Espin-Garcia O, Merali Z, Ali S

International journal of public health2026

DOI: 10.3389/ijph.2026.1609520 PMID: 41658423

IL23R genetic variants associate with Crohn's disease risk and microbiome changes in healthy first-degree relatives

Leibovitzh H, Neustaeter A, Lee S-H, Xue M, Espin-Garcia O, Olivera PA, Huynh HQ, Griffiths AM, Turner D, Madsen KL

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2026.05.011

Childhood exposure to a sibling with Crohn's disease alters gut microbiome and Crohn's disease susceptibility.

Chen R, Kim HJ, Bushra M, Phi Dang C, Li Q, Espin-Garcia O, Huynh HQ, Jacobson K, Bitton A, Panaccione R

Gut2026

DOI: 10.1136/gutjnl-2026-339257

MicroRNA signature for early prediction of knee osteoarthritis structural progression using integrated machine and deep learning approaches.

Jamshidi A, Espin-Garcia O, Wilson TG, Loveless I, Pelletier JP, Martel-Pelletier J, Ali SA

Osteoarthritis and cartilage2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2024.11.008 PMID: 39617204

Identification of Ephrin type-B receptor 4 as a critical mediator of tissue fibrosis.

Wu B, Lively SS, Vohra S, Fine N, Pastrello C, Maglaviceanu A, Espin-Garcia O, Pollock-Tahiri E, Nakamura S, Kaur P, Delos Santos K, Rockel JS, Potla P, Gupta H, Datta P, Tang L, Kwon J, Nakamura A, Buechler MB, Gandhi R, Wu J, Hinz B, Jurisica I, Kapoor M

JCI insight2025

DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.189156 PMID: 41424388

Deep learning-based clustering for endotyping and post-arthroplasty response classification using knee osteoarthritis multiomic data.

Rockel JS, Sharma D, Espin-Garcia O, Hueniken K, Sandhu A, Pastrello C, Sundararajan K, Potla P, Fine N, Lively SS, Perry K, Mahomed NN, Syed K, Jurisica I, Perruccio AV, Rampersaud YR, Gandhi R, Kapoor M

Annals of the rheumatic diseases2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.ard.2025.01.012 PMID: 39948003

Healthy First-Degree Relatives From Multiplex Families vs Simplex Families Have Higher Subclinical Intestinal Inflammation, a Distinct Fecal Microbial Signature, and Harbor a Higher Risk of Developing Crohn’s Disease

Olivera PA, Martinez-Lozano H, Leibovitzh H, Xue M, Neustaeter A, Espin-Garcia O, Xu W, Madsen KL, Guttman DS, Bernstein CN

Gastroenterology202526 citations

DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2024.08.031

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Osvaldo Espin Garcia

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Understanding Motor Adaptation in the Transition to Sustained Pain: Protocol for a Longitudinal Experimental Study.

Responders vs. non-responders to mesenchymal stromal cells in knee osteoarthritis: Mechanistic correlates of donor cell and patient features.

Methods for classifying physical activities using accelerometer data: a scoping review.

Predicting Dementia Risk: Progress, Pitfalls, and Priorities.

IL23R genetic variants associate with Crohn's disease risk and microbiome changes in healthy first-degree relatives

Childhood exposure to a sibling with Crohn's disease alters gut microbiome and Crohn's disease susceptibility.

MicroRNA signature for early prediction of knee osteoarthritis structural progression using integrated machine and deep learning approaches.

Identification of Ephrin type-B receptor 4 as a critical mediator of tissue fibrosis.

Deep learning-based clustering for endotyping and post-arthroplasty response classification using knee osteoarthritis multiomic data.

Healthy First-Degree Relatives From Multiplex Families vs Simplex Families Have Higher Subclinical Intestinal Inflammation, a Distinct Fecal Microbial Signature, and Harbor a Higher Risk of Developing Crohn’s Disease

Application of Multi-Omics and Deep Learning for Endotyping and Theratyping in Osteoarthritis

Determining the safety and efficacy of microRNA-181a-5p blocker as a potential therapy for the treatment of osteoarthritis

Understanding the impact of age and frailty on immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) outcomes in cancer patients

"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it": A longitudinal study of knee osteoarthritis in people with stroke.

Triple negative breast cancer intratumour heterogeneity and disease progression

Participation in aerobic exercise during stroke rehabilitation: a mixed-methods study

Frequent collaborators

Wei Xu

Osvaldo Espin Garcia

Kenneth Croitoru

Paul Moayyedi

Geoffrey Liu

Remo Panaccione

John Kenneth Marshall

Michael Surette

Elena Elimova

David Mack

Mohit Kapoor

Alain Bitton

Rajiv Gandhi

Lawson Eng

Steven Gallinger

Patrick Veit-Haibach

Divya Sharma

Igor Jurisica

Jonathan Yeung

Anne Griffiths

Anthony Otley

Konstantin Shestopaloff

Doris Howell

Brian Feagan

Tracy Stockley

Mark Speechley

Michelle Cotterchio

Victoria Landsman