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The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)
Canada's largest children's hospital, where brain tumour stem cells were first isolated and where the Li-Fraumeni surveillance protocol was developed.
Also called: SickKidsGarron Family Cancer Centre
Overview
SickKids is Canada's largest paediatric hospital and a University of Toronto teaching site whose Garron Family Cancer Centre and Research Institute have an outsized record in paediatric oncology. Peter Dirks first isolated cancer stem cells from human brain tumours in 2003-04; Michael Taylor (now at Texas Children's) defined the four molecular subgroups of medulloblastoma; Cynthia Hawkins's group characterised H3K27M diffuse midline glioma. David Malkin and Uri Tabori developed the 'Toronto protocol' of whole-body MRI surveillance for Li-Fraumeni syndrome, now adopted internationally, and Tabori's international consortium showed hypermutant, replication-repair-deficient childhood cancers respond to checkpoint inhibitors. SickKids is a major Children's Oncology Group site with programmes in leukaemia, neuroblastoma and sarcoma.
Location
Toronto, ON, CA
Type
hospital · University of Toronto
Website
Newsweek 2026 oncology rank
Not in top 300 listing used
OnCo score
#215 · 28 points (0 Newsweek + 0 NCI + 28 from 14 linked objects) · ranking
Research output
From OpenAlex, oncology works in the last five years (2022 to 2026, current year in progress); counted on 2026-09-17.
Matched to Hospital for Sick Children, including child institutions. 264 works · 4,071 citations · 65% open access · 5% clinical trials · 5% reviews.
Oncology works per year
542022
682023
602024
512025
312026
Most works
- David Malkin34 works
- Lillian Sung16 works
- Adam Shlien14 works
- Anita Villani13 works
- Nicholas W. Fischer12 works
- Christian P. Kratz11 works
- Paul C. Nathan10 works
- Sarah Alexander9 works
- L. Lee Dupuis9 works
- Vallijah Subasri8 works
Most cited
- Brain tumour research
- Cancer predisposition and surveillance
- Paediatric leukaemia and solid tumours
Meredith Irwin
Paediatrician-in-Chief
Paediatric oncologyNeuroblastomaTumour biology
Paediatric oncologist and neuroblastoma researcher who serves as Paediatrician-in-Chief at SickKids in Toronto.
Ronald Cohn
President & CEO
PaediatricsClinical geneticsPrecision child health
Clinical geneticist who leads The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, one of the world's largest paediatric academic health centres.
Stephen Scherer
Chief of Research
GenomicsCopy number variationAutism genetics
Genome scientist who heads research at SickKids and co-discovered genome-wide copy number variation in humans.
Sumit Gupta
Staff Oncologist and Senior Scientist, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Toronto
Paediatric acute lymphoblastic leukaemiaImmunotherapyHealth outcomes research
Led COG AALL1731, which showed adding blinatumomab to chemotherapy improves survival for children with standard-risk leukaemia.
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