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Sunit Das

ResearcherSurgeryUniversity of Toronto

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Sunit Das

Researcher

Surgery

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.
95 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 33 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 2 research grants (2 CIHR), most recently in 2020.
Supervisor on 2 trainee awards (2 CIHR), most recently in 2025.

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186

Publications

435

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Research

Adolescent And Young Adult Cancer Central Nervous System Tumours Cohort Health Services Data Population-Based Bevacizumab Cancer Progression Cancer Stem Cell

Latest papers

MRI-guided adaptive radiotherapy for high grade glioma (UNITED): a single-centre, single-arm, non-inferiority, phase 2 trial
The Lancet Oncology · 2026
Machine learning identifies prognosticators of intracranial metastatic disease in patients with breast or lung cancer.
Communications medicine · 2026 · senior author
Longitudinal changes in DNA methylation in IDH-mutant glioma fuel disease progression through altered cell state differentiation.
Nature genetics · 2026

All 186 publications

Latest funding

Identifying the molecular signature of infiltrating edge cells in glioblastoma as drivers of tumour invasion and recurrence
CIHR · 2025 · Supervisor
$120,000
Combining Advanced Metabolic MRI with Genomics to Refine the Treatment Paradigm for Grade 2/3 IDH-wildtype Astrocytoma ("Molecular Glioblastoma")
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$787,950
Nano-isotopes for Nano-medicine: Synthesis of light-element isotopes in nano-scale for Next Generation biomedical applications
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$250,000

All 10 grants and awards

From the 150 most recent of 186 publications.

MRI-guided adaptive radiotherapy for high grade glioma (UNITED): a single-centre, single-arm, non-inferiority, phase 2 trial

Detsky JS, Chan AW, Moore-Palhares D, Safavi AH, Perry J, Fat MJL, Atenafu EG, Das S, Lipsman N, Heyn C

The Lancet Oncology20262 citations

DOI: 10.1016/s1470-2045(26)00088-4

Machine learning identifies prognosticators of intracranial metastatic disease in patients with breast or lung cancer.

Istasy MV, Verma A, Jerzak KJ, Das S

Communications medicine2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1038/s43856-026-01609-3 PMID: 42026134

Longitudinal changes in DNA methylation in IDH-mutant glioma fuel disease progression through altered cell state differentiation.

Nomura M, Raviram R, Schiffman JS, Bussema L, Lu V, Wheeler N, Lee JJY, Fan Y, Zheng MH, Ruiz F, Danish H, Kellett S, Nusrat L, Chaligne R, Huse JT, Yung WKA, Tanaka S, Saito N, Das S, Potenski C, Landau DA, Suvà ML

Nature genetics2026

DOI: 10.1038/s41588-026-02642-7 PMID: 42332268

AI Augmented Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy for Rapid Intraoperative Diagnosis of Brain Tumors.

Byun YH, Seo H, Won JK, Lee B, Hong DH, Nam SM, Hwang JH, Kim MS, Kim YH, Kim JH, Yu MO, Park KJ, Kim H, Das S, Kong DS, Park CK, Kang SH

NPJ digital medicine2026

DOI: 10.1038/s41746-026-02651-0 PMID: 42000880

A comprehensive review on the current applications and future perspectives of radioembolization in endovascular neurosurgery.

Liu XYE, Rutka J, Cheng HM, Spears J, Das S, Mendes Pereira V

Journal of neurointerventional surgery2026

DOI: 10.1136/jnis-2025-024053 PMID: 41167809

Incidence of treated brain metastases among patients with stage I-III breast cancer: A population-based study.

Jerzak KJ, Fernandes I, Soliman H, Zhang B, Saskin R, Liu G, Das S, Sahgal A, Chan KK, Kryzanowska M, Chehade R

Breast (Edinburgh, Scotland)2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.breast.2026.104723 PMID: 41722138

Brain metastases among patients with gynecologic cancers: a single-centre retrospective study of patients treated with brain radiotherapy.

Chehade R, Al-Humiqani A, Hanna L, Sahgal A, Moravan V, Das S, Soliman H, Mackay H, Jerzak KJ

Journal of neuro-oncology2026

DOI: 10.1007/s11060-026-05513-7 PMID: 41838212

First Report of Staged Adaptive Frameless Stereotactic Radiosurgery in 3 "Pulses" to Salvage Brain Metastases that Failed Previous Radiosurgery.

Tong D, Shor D, Zhang B, Ruschin M, Detsky JS, Dinakaran D, Soliman H, Tseng CL, da Costa L, Das S, Heyn C, Holden L, Atenafu EG, Sahgal A, Chen H

Neurosurgery2026

DOI: 10.1227/neu.0000000000004142 PMID: 42340322

Neoadjuvant therapy and translational biomarkers for metastatic risk in early breast cancer.

McCracken A, Grafinger OR, Leong HS, Lohmann AE, Jerzak KJ, Das S

Cancer treatment reviews2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.ctrv.2026.103111 PMID: 41734562

Central nervous system schwannoma, VGLL-fused (EWSR1::VGLL1 fusion) with neuroblastoma-like cell dense areas in the frontal lobe of a young man with schwannomatosis due to a germline LZTR1 mutation.

Munoz DG, Das S, Yoon JY, Siddaway R, Levine A, Aldape KD

Free neuropathology2026

DOI: 10.17879/freeneuropathology-2026-8898 PMID: 41522855

Identifying the molecular signature of infiltrating edge cells in glioblastoma as drivers of tumour invasion and recurrence

SupervisorCIHR2025DRA : Canada Graduate Research Scholarship - Doctoral Program (CGRS D)

Principal investigators: Ivanova, Alena

Keywords: Biomarker; Cancer; Ex Vivo Brain Slice Culture; Glioblastoma; Infiltration; Invasion; Recurrence; Spatial Biology; Spatial Proteomics; Spatial Transcriptomics

$120,000

Combining Advanced Metabolic MRI with Genomics to Refine the Treatment Paradigm for Grade 2/3 IDH-wildtype Astrocytoma ("Molecular Glioblastoma")

Co-investigatorCIHR2024Project Grant

Principal investigators: Stanisz, Greg J; Dinakaran, Deepak; Lim-Fat, Mary Jane; Sahgal, Arjun

Keywords: Astrocytomas; Brain Tumour; Cest; Gbm; Gd-Enhancement Mri; Gliomas; Magnetization Transfer; Molecular Gioblastoma; Mri; Screening

$787,950

Nano-isotopes for Nano-medicine: Synthesis of light-element isotopes in nano-scale for Next Generation biomedical applications

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023New Frontiers in Research Fund - Exploration

Principal investigators: Venkatakrishnan, Krishnan

Keywords: Ultrashort laser material processing; cancer diagnosis and therapy; nanomedicine; isotopes; nanoparticles

$250,000

Next generation precision oncology for pediatric-type AYA gliomas

Co-investigatorCIHR2022Project Grant

Principal investigators: Hawkins, Cynthia E

Keywords: Aya; Low Grade Glioma; Pediatric Brain Tumor; Precision Medicine; Ras/Mapk Pathway; Single Cell Sequencing

$1,342,576

Redefining the paradigm for surveillance in patients with low-grade glioma using saturation transfer magnetic resonance imaging

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Project Grant

Principal investigators: Stanisz, Greg J; Jabehdar Maralani, Pejman; Sahgal, Arjun

Keywords: Brain Tumour; Cest; Gd-Enhancement Mri; Low Grade Glioma; Magnetization Transfer; Metabolism; Mri; Screening; Tumour Progression

$830,024

Improving outcomes across the cancer journey for adolescents and young adult with central nervous system tumours: The IMPACT-CNS Cohort

Principal investigatorCIHR2020Project Grant

Principal investigators: Gupta, Sumit; Bartels, Ute; Das, Sunit

Keywords: Adolescent And Young Adult Cancer; Central Nervous System Tumours; Cohort; Health Services Data; Population-Based

$948,600

Integrated Nanotechnology and Biomedical Sciences Laboratory

Co-investigatorCIHR2017Foundation Grant

Principal investigators: Chan, Warren C

Keywords: Cancer; Nanotechnology

$2,100,092

Porphyrin Nanomedicine for Cancer Imaging and Therapy

Co-investigatorCIHR2016Foundation Grant

Principal investigators: Zheng, Gang

Keywords: Blood Brain Barrier; Cancer Imaging; Image-Guided Therapy; Immunotherapy; Lipoprotein; Microbubbles; Nanoparticle; Photodynamic Therapy; Photothermal Therapy; Radiotherapy

$3,300,088

Targeting bevacizumb resistance via LIVE-mediated vascular mimicry in glioblastoma.

Nominated PICIHR2015Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Das, Sunit

Keywords: Bevacizumab; Cancer Progression; Cancer Stem Cell; Drug Resistance; Endothelial Cell; Epigenetics; Glioblastoma; Non-Coding Rna; Pericyte; Vascular Mimicry

$545,268

lncRNA Regulation of the Cancer Stem Cell Phenotype in Glioblastoma Multiforme

SupervisorCIHR2014Doctoral Award - Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarships

Principal investigators: Shahzad, Uswa

Keywords: Brain Tumors; Cancer; Cancer Stem Cells; Cancer Therapy; Glioblastoma Multiforme; Gliomas; Lncrna; Long Non-Coding Rnas; Recurrence; Stemness

$105,000

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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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Adolescent And Young Adult Cancer Dear Professor Das, 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]. I read your paper "MRI-guided adaptive radiotherapy for high grade glioma (UNITED): a single-centre, single-arm, non-inferiority, phase 2 trial" (2026), and it 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 "Improving outcomes across the cancer journey for adolescents and young adult with central nervous system tumours: The IMPACT-CNS Cohort" (2020), 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]

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Sunit Das

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

MRI-guided adaptive radiotherapy for high grade glioma (UNITED): a single-centre, single-arm, non-inferiority, phase 2 trial

Machine learning identifies prognosticators of intracranial metastatic disease in patients with breast or lung cancer.

Longitudinal changes in DNA methylation in IDH-mutant glioma fuel disease progression through altered cell state differentiation.

AI Augmented Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy for Rapid Intraoperative Diagnosis of Brain Tumors.

A comprehensive review on the current applications and future perspectives of radioembolization in endovascular neurosurgery.

Incidence of treated brain metastases among patients with stage I-III breast cancer: A population-based study.

Brain metastases among patients with gynecologic cancers: a single-centre retrospective study of patients treated with brain radiotherapy.

First Report of Staged Adaptive Frameless Stereotactic Radiosurgery in 3 "Pulses" to Salvage Brain Metastases that Failed Previous Radiosurgery.

Neoadjuvant therapy and translational biomarkers for metastatic risk in early breast cancer.

Central nervous system schwannoma, VGLL-fused (EWSR1::VGLL1 fusion) with neuroblastoma-like cell dense areas in the frontal lobe of a young man with schwannomatosis due to a germline LZTR1 mutation.

Nano-isotopes for Nano-medicine: Synthesis of light-element isotopes in nano-scale for Next Generation biomedical applications

Frequent collaborators

Arjun Sahgal

Nir Lipsman

Uri Tabori

Arash Zarrine-Afsar

Cynthia Hawkins

Gelareh Zadeh

Chinthaka Heyn

Jason Karamchandani

Vijay Ramaswamy

Jason Karamchandani

Ahmed Aman

Mark Bernstein

Mathieu Lupien

Greg Stanisz

Marco Gallo

Eric Bouffet

Daniel Moore Freitas Palhares

Michael Cusimano

Annie Huang

Sharon Nofech-Mozes

Pejman Jabehdar Maralani

Samuel Weiss

Ute Bartels

Angus Lau

Pejman Jabehdar Maralani

Michael Yan

Benjamin Haibe-Kains

Haider Samawi

Stephane Angers

David Malkin

Victor Yang

Tom Schweizer

Sumit Gupta

Amol Verma

Birgit Ertl-Wagner

Cindi Morshead

Adam Komorowski

Navdeep Nijhawan

Kamran Khan

Gary Bader