Savvas Damaskinos, University of Toronto

Research

Cancer Imaging Machine Learning

Latest funding

Applying machine learning to 3D tumor histopathology for predicting patient outcomes
CIHR · 2019 · Principal investigator
$484,151

All 1 grants and awards

Applying machine learning to 3D tumor histopathology for predicting patient outcomes

Principal investigatorCIHR2019Collaborative Health Research Projects (NSERC partnered)

Principal investigators: Chan, Warren C; Damaskinos, Savvas; Tsao, Ming-Sound

Keywords: Cancer; Imaging; Machine Learning

$484,151

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

Write to this professor

A short, specific email works best. This draft uses one of their recent papers; replace the parts in brackets with your own details before sending.

Applying for

Mention their CIHR grant from 2019

Subject: Prospective PhD student: Cancer Dear Professor Damaskinos, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on cancer connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your CIHR-funded project "Applying machine learning to 3D tumor histopathology for predicting patient outcomes" (2019), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]