Oral, Mouth and Throat Cancer

Biography

Dr. Richard Kremer is currently Professor and Director of the Bone and Mineral Unit in the Department of Medicine of McGill University. He is also the co-leader of the Musculoskeletal Axis of the McGill University Health Centre. Born in Paris, Dr Kremer received his MD (1977) and Ph.D. (1979) degrees at the Pierre et Marie Curie University of Paris, and completed his internal medicine and endocrinology residency at La Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris. He then moved to Canada and completed his residency training at the Montreal General Hospital, Royal Victoria and Ottawa Civic Hospitals. He pursued his research training at the Royal Victoria Hospital and joined the Division of Endocrinology as a full-time physician-scientist in 1989.

Research Interest

Develop targeted therapies in cancer based on the unique profile of cancer cells that are refractory to most chemotherapeutic interventions.