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Philip Awadalla

ResearcherOccupational and Environmental HealthUniversity of Toronto

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Philip Awadalla

Researcher

Occupational and Environmental Health

Health Sciences

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
28 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 5 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 4 research grants (3 CIHR, 1 NSERC), most recently in 2025.

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Research

Administrative Health Data Biospecimens Cohort Data Linkage Environmental Data Health Emergencies Longitudinal Pandemics

Latest papers

Pre-diagnosis plasma cell-free DNA reveals early signatures of prostate and breast cancer risk up to eight years prior to clinical detection.
Cell genomics · 2026 · senior author
Genetic dissection of stool frequency implicates vitamin B1 metabolism and other actionable pathways in the modulation of gut motility.
Gut · 2026
Provincial variation and associated factors in adherence to cervical cancer screening in Canada: Evidence from the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow's Health.
Journal of medical screening · 2026

All 55 publications

Latest funding

The Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow's Health (CanPath) Platform
CIHR · 2025 · Principal investigator
$2,999,685
Long COVID Web: Pan-Canadian Post-COVID Condition Research Network
CIHR · 2022 · Principal investigator
$19,999,614
Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative (HeLTI) - South Africa - Bukhali
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator
$2,500,000

All 9 grants and awards

55 publications.

Pre-diagnosis plasma cell-free DNA reveals early signatures of prostate and breast cancer risk up to eight years prior to clinical detection.

Cheng N, Ouellette TW, Skead K, Singhawansa A, Elliott M, Cescon DW, Bratman SV, De Carvalho DD, Soave D, Awadalla P

Cell genomics2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.xgen.2026.101364 PMID: 42767223

Genetic dissection of stool frequency implicates vitamin B1 metabolism and other actionable pathways in the modulation of gut motility.

Díaz-Muñoz C, Bozzarelli I, Lopera-Maya EA, Belbasis L, Lo Faro V, Camargo Tavares L, Heredia-Fernández F, Di Lorenzo B, Sinha T, Esteban Blanco C, Favé MJ, Awadalla P, Walters RG, Bonfiglio F, Zhernakova A, Sanna S, D'Amato M

Gut2026

DOI: 10.1136/gutjnl-2025-337059 PMID: 41558814

Provincial variation and associated factors in adherence to cervical cancer screening in Canada: Evidence from the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow's Health.

Darvishian M, Moustaqim-Barrette A, Awadalla P, Bhatti P, Broet P, Murphy RA, Skead K, Urquhart R, Vena J, Dummer TJ

Journal of medical screening2026

DOI: 10.1177/09691413261445025 PMID: 42029913

Psychosocial factors and the risk of cancer: An individual-participant data meta-analysis.

van Tuijl LA, Pan KY, Basten M, Vermeulen R, Portengen L, de Graeff A, Dekker J, Geerlings MI, Hoogendoorn AW, Lamers F, Voogd AC, Abell J, Awadalla P, Beekman ATF, Bjerkeset O, Boyd A, Cui Y, Frank P, Galenkamp H, Garssen B, Hellingman S, Huisman M, Huss A, de Jong TR, Keats MR, Kok AAL, Krokstad S, van Leeuwen FE, Luik AI, Noisel N, Payette Y, Penninx BWJH, Rissanen I, Roest AM, Ruiter R, Schoevers RA, Soave D, Spaan M, Steptoe A, Stronks K, Sund ER, Sweeney E, Twait EL, Teyhan A, Verschuren WMM, van der Willik KD, Rosmalen JGM, Ranchor AV

Cancer2026

DOI: 10.1002/cncr.70271 PMID: 41866892

Trans-eQTLs reveal the architecture of human gene regulatory networks.

Warmerdam CAR, Westra HJ, van der Graaf A, Bonder MJ, Deelen P, van Lieshout T, Landman AJ, Jesse M, Strober BJ, Boltz T, Lapinska S, Nagpal S, Xie M, Tay D, Kirsten H, Naeem H, Raghavan V, Farzeen A, Teumer A, Favé MJ, Persyn E, Tokolyi A, Pool R, Hottenga JJ, Rodríguez RD, Rivas-Torrubia M, Mishra BH, Pierce B, Tong L, Wang QS, Hasegawa T, Chhetri SB, Dutta D, Weiss S, Dupuis T, Lyytikäinen LP, Mishra PP, Wood AR, Burnham KL, Wen J, Cheruiyot E, Boahen CK, Jansen R, Krohn K, Thiery J, IMI DIRECT Consortium, Daida K, Gibbs JR, Verlouw J, Kukushkina V, Mägi R, Budde J, Johnson M, Sanford J, Slagboom E, Beutner F, Loeffler M, PRECISESADS Clinical Consortium, Martin J, Raitoharju E, Kibriya MG, Jasmine F, Nauck M, HELIOS Study Team, Souto JC, Martinez-Perez A, Ikram MA, Mykkänen J, Pahkala K, Rovio SP, Raffield LM, van Greevenbroek M, van der Kallen CJH, Schalkwijk CG, Veldink J, Freimann K, Vochteloo M, Kooijmans A, Ouadah L, Claringbould A, Huang Y, Bryois J, Tsai EA, Heinig M, van der Wijst MGP, Estonian Biobank Research Team, sc-eQTLGen Consortium, Kumar V, Visscher PM, McRae AF, Montgomery GW, Li Y, Knight JC, Singleton A, Ferrucci L, Frayling TM, Brown A, Soria JM, Völker U, Battle A, Okada Y, Fukunaga K, Namkoong H, Ahsan H, Lehtimäki T, Kähönen M, Raitakari OT, Alarcón-Riquelme ME, Barturen G, Penninx BWJH, Paul DS, Inouye M, Awadalla P, Sung YJ, Cruchaga C, van Meurs J, Prokisch H, Peters A, Gieger C, Blauwendraat C, Mokrab Y, Davenport EE, Scholz M, Loh M, Chambers J, Gibson G, Boomsma DI, Viñuela A, Pasaniuc B, Ophoff R, Price AL, Alasoo K, Kutalik Z, Esko T, Franke LH, Võsa U

medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences2026

DOI: 10.64898/2026.02.04.26343575 PMID: 42051578

Continuous versus Standard Palbociclib Treatment and Molecular Profiling of Solid Tissues and Liquid Biopsies in the CCTG MA.38 Trial in Advanced Breast Cancer.

Joy AA, Cheng N, Gelmon KA, Mates M, Desbiens C, Clemons M, Taylor S, Lemieux J, DeLuca A, Gasparini L, Lungu I, Soave D, Fortuna A, Pugh T, Liu SS, Bartlett JMS, Awadalla P, Spears M, Chen BE, Bayani J, Parulekar WR

Cancer research communications2025

DOI: 10.1158/2767-9764.crc-25-0346 PMID: 41123599

Geography, Ancestry, Age and Sex Shape Somatic Autosomal Mosaic Chromosomal Alterations in Blood.

Won Kang JR, Kim YJ, Skead K, Soave D, Evans J, Bruat V, Harwood MP, Morris Q, Matovu E, Mulindwa J, Noyes H, McLeod A, Hazelhurst S, Lombard Z, Ramsay M, Fave MJ, Awadalla P

medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1101/2025.10.19.25338239 PMID: 41282824

Visceral adipose tissue and hepatic fat as determinants of carotid atherosclerosis.

de Souza RJ, Pigeyre ME, Schulze KM, Lamri A, Al-Khazraji BK, Awadalla P, Beyene J, Desai D, Despres JP, Dummer TJB, Friedrich MG, Hicks J, Ho V, LaRose É, Lear SA, Lee DS, Leipsic JA, Lettre G, Moody AR, Noseworthy MD, Pare G, Parraga G, Poirier P, Tardif JC, Yusuf S, Vena J, Anand SS

Communications medicine2025

DOI: 10.1038/s43856-025-01123-y PMID: 41107464

Cohort profile: the CARTaGENE Cohort Nutrition Study (Quebec, Canada).

Ho V, Csizmadi I, Boucher BA, McInerney M, Boileau C, Noisel N, Payette Y, Awadalla P, Koushik A

BMJ open2024

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-083425 PMID: 39153764

Canada's approach to SARS-CoV-2 sero-surveillance: Lessons learned for routine surveillance and future pandemics.

O'Brien SF, Asamoah-Boaheng M, Grunau B, Krajden M, Buckeridge DL, Goldfarb DM, Anderson M, Germain M, Brown P, Stein DR, Kandola K, Tipples G, Awadalla P, Lang A, Behl L, Fitzpatrick T, Drews SJ

Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2024

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-024-00901-w PMID: 38981961

The Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow's Health (CanPath) Platform

Principal investigatorCIHR2025Op Grant: Pandemic Research Platforms Interim Funding - Population-Based Cohort

Principal investigators: Brooks, Jennifer D; Awadalla, Philip

Keywords: Administrative Health Data; Biospecimens; Cohort; Data Linkage; Environmental Data; Health Emergencies; Longitudinal; Pandemics; Research Platform; Surveillance

$2,999,685

Long COVID Web: Pan-Canadian Post-COVID Condition Research Network

Principal investigatorCIHR2022Operating Grant: Canadian Post COVID-19 Condition Research Network

Principal investigators: Cheung, Angela M; Goulding, Susie E; Graves, Donna Lorraine; Archambault, Patrick; Awadalla, Philip; Bakal, Jeffrey A; Bhéreur, Anne; Brotto, Lori Anne; Busse, Jason W; Cameron, Jill I; Churchill, Katie; Crawley, Angela M; Décary, Simon; Durand, Madeleine; Falcone, Emilia L; Fowler, Robert A; Gommerman, Jennifer L; Graham, Kathryn E; Graham, Simon J; Groot, Gary; Gross, Douglas P; Guyatt, Gordon H; Halas, Gayle; Ho, Chester; Hohl, Corinne M; Holroyd, Brian R; Janjua, Naveed Z; Johnson, Pauline; Juando Prats, Clara; Kashuba, Sherri; Katz, Alan; Kho, Michelle E; Lam, Grace Y; Lamontagne, Francois; Langlois, Marc-Andre; Lavis, John N; Law, Susan K; LeBlanc, Annie; Levin, Adeera; Liu-Ambrose, Teresa Y; Liu, Peter P; Lix, Lisa M; Mandhane, Piush; Mann, Balraj; McGrail, Kimberlyn M; McNagny, Kelly M; Miciak, Maxi A; Mishra, Sharmistha; Muhajarine, Nazeem; Mukherjee, Manali; Mushquash, Christopher J; Nacul, Luis; O'Brien, Kelly K; Osgood, Nathaniel D; Papathanasoglou, Elisavet; Penninger, Josef; Piche, Alain; Pinto, Andrew D; Quinn, Kieran L; Rafferty, Ellen; Raj, Satish R; Razak, Fahad; Russell, James A; Sander, Beate H; Sekuler, Allison B; Soares, Claudio D; Tailfeathers, Esther; Tomlinson, George A; Tricco, Andrea C; Valdez, Yanet; Verma, Amol; Vohra, Sunita; Walmsley, Sharon L; Walsh, Jillian; Weeks, Laura C; Williams, Kienan; Wu, Jianhong; Yeung, Rae S

Keywords: Biobanking; Knowledge Translation; Long Covid; Mechanism Of Disease; National Network; Patient Engagement; Patient Registries; Post-Covid Condition; Research Communications; Social Determinants Of Health

$19,999,614

Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative (HeLTI) - South Africa - Bukhali

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Team Grant: Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative (HeLTI) - South Africa

Principal investigators: Lye, Stephen J; Clinton, Jean M; Lule, Elizabeth L; Connor, Kristin L; Draper, Catherine E; Hung, Rayjean; Norris, Shane A

Keywords: Child Health And Development Outcomes; Childhood Adiposity; Clinical Trial; Developmental Origins Of Health And Disease; Maternal-Child Health; Non-Communicable Disease; Preconception, Pregnancy And Infancy Intervention

$2,500,000

Canadian COVID-19 Prospective Cohort Study (CanCOV)

Co-investigatorCIHR2020Op Gr: COVID-19 Rapid Research FO - Clinical Mgmt/Health System Interventions

Principal investigators: Cheung, Angela M; Ahmed, Sofia B; Batt, Jane Andrea E; Binnie, Alexandra; Dos Santos, Claudia C; Ghassemi, Marzyeh; Herridge, Margaret S; Lamontagne, Francois; Morin, Suzanne N; Palepu, Anita; Razak, Fahad; Stelfox, Henry T; Strug, Lisa J; Tsang, Jennifer L; Verma, Amol; Yeung, Rae S

Keywords: Caregiver Health; Clinical Presentations & Trajectories; Full Spectrum Of Covid-19 Disease (Mild To Severe); Host Genetic Profiling; Knowledge To Action Cycles; Mental Health & Stigma; Prediction Models Using Machine Learning; Prospective Cohort Study; Sociodemographic And Clinical Predictors Of Outcomes; Transcriptomic, Epigenomic And Immunologic Host Response

$2,112,500

Characterizing evolutionary models driving stem cell and somatic tissue development

Principal investigatorNSERC2019Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Awadalla, Philip

$42,000

Lung cancer early detection and classification using methylome analysis of plasma cell free DNA

Co-investigatorCIHR2019Project Grant

Principal investigators: Bratman, Scott V; Liu, Geoffrey

Keywords: Cell-Free Dna; Ctdna; Diagnostics; Dna Methylation; Early Detection; Epigenomics; Liquid Biopsy; Lung Cancer; Machine Learning; Screening

$995,264

BUilding Knowledge and a foundation for HeALthy lIfe trajectories: BUKHALI Trial.

Co-investigatorCIHR2017Team Grant: Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative (HeLTI) - South-Africa

Principal investigators: Lye, Stephen J; Matthews, Stephen G; Norris, Shane A; Richter, Linda

Keywords: Child Cognitive Development; Child Development; Cohort Studies; Developmental Origins Of Health And Disease; Nutrition; Obesity; Pregnancy

$2,478,000

Identification and Characterization of Human Hematopoietic and Leukemia Stem Cells and Elucidation of their Role in Regenerative Medicine and Disease

Co-investigatorCIHR2016Foundation Grant

Principal investigators: Dick, John E

Keywords: Clonal Heterogeneity; Hematopoieisis; Hematopoietic Stem Cells; Leukemic Stem Cells; Leukemogenesis; Pre-Leukemic Stem Cells; Regenerative Medicine; Stem Cell Biology

$2,587,536

CANadian Urban Environmental (CANUE) Health Research Consortium

Principal investigatorCIHR2016Operating Grant: Canadian Environmental Urban Health Research Consortium

Principal investigators: Brook, Jeffrey R; Stieb, David M; Awadalla, Philip; Brauer, Michael; Hu, Howard; McGrail, Kimberlyn M; Subbarao, Padmaja

Keywords: Air Quality; Climate Change; Cohorts; Environmental Exposure; Greenness; Noise; Urban Form; Walkability

$4,165,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Philip Awadalla

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Pre-diagnosis plasma cell-free DNA reveals early signatures of prostate and breast cancer risk up to eight years prior to clinical detection.

Genetic dissection of stool frequency implicates vitamin B1 metabolism and other actionable pathways in the modulation of gut motility.

Provincial variation and associated factors in adherence to cervical cancer screening in Canada: Evidence from the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow's Health.

Psychosocial factors and the risk of cancer: An individual-participant data meta-analysis.

Trans-eQTLs reveal the architecture of human gene regulatory networks.

Continuous versus Standard Palbociclib Treatment and Molecular Profiling of Solid Tissues and Liquid Biopsies in the CCTG MA.38 Trial in Advanced Breast Cancer.

Geography, Ancestry, Age and Sex Shape Somatic Autosomal Mosaic Chromosomal Alterations in Blood.

Visceral adipose tissue and hepatic fat as determinants of carotid atherosclerosis.

Cohort profile: the CARTaGENE Cohort Nutrition Study (Quebec, Canada).

Canada's approach to SARS-CoV-2 sero-surveillance: Lessons learned for routine surveillance and future pandemics.

Characterizing evolutionary models driving stem cell and somatic tissue development

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Philip Awadalla

Ellen Sweeney

Jean-Claude Tardif

Jean-Claude Tardif

Philip Awadalla

Sonia Anand

Koon Teo

Maryam Darvishian

Parveen Bhatti

Paul Poirier

Nolwenn Noisel

Salim Yusuf

Grace Parraga

Alan Moody

Vikki Ho

Trevor Pugh

Vanessa Declercq

Trevor Dummer

Eric Larose

Michael Noseworthy

Louise Parker

Johanne Tremblay

Anish Kirpalani

Sasha Bernatsky

Marie Hudson

Sandra Black

Ines Colmegna

Quaid Morris

Robin Urquhart

Pavel Hamet

Stephanie Lheureux

Marie-Julie Favé

Anita Koushik

Matthias Friedrich

Enrique Sanz Garcia

Tiffany Fitzpatrick

Daniel Roth

Melanie Spears

Anita Koushik

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