Meera Rayar
BHSc, MD
Investigator, BC Children's Hospital
Pediatric Blood and Cancer
Pastore, Y.D. and Price, V. and Israels, S. and Chan, A.K.C. and Belletrutti, M. and Bruce, A. and Simpson, E. and Bowes, L. and Tole, S. and Sinha, R. and Brossard, J. and Malcomson, C. and Wheaton, L. and Rayar, M.
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.31740BMC Cancer
Oveisi, N. and Cheng, V. and Taylor, D. and Kang, P. and Brotto, L.A. and Peacock, S. and McTaggart-Cowan, H. and Hanley, G.E. and Gill, S. and Rayar, M. and Srikanthan, A. and Barnes, M. and Bechthold, H. and Jansen, N. and De Vera, M.A.
DOI: 10.1186/s12885-025-14561-7Pediatric Blood and Cancer
Jibb, L. and Laverty, M. and Johnston, D.L. and Rayar, M. and Truong, T.H. and Kulkarni, K. and Renzi, S. and Alvi, S. and Kaur, J. and Winch, N. and Gupta, S. and Marjerrison, S.
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.31472BMC Cancer
Oveisi, N. and Cheng, V. and Taylor, D. and Kang, P. and Brotto, L.A. and Peacock, S. and McTaggart-Cowan, H. and Hanley, G.E. and Gill, S. and Rayar, M. and Srikanthan, A. and Barnes, M. and Bechthold, H. and Jansen, N. and De Vera, M.A.
DOI: 10.1186/s12885-025-14380-wJournal of the National Cancer Institute
Oveisi, N. and Sayre, E.C. and Brotto, L.A. and Cheng, V. and Cheng, V. and Gill, S. and Hanley, G.E. and McTaggart-Cowan, H. and Peacock, S. and Rayar, M. and Srikanthan, A. and Taylor, D. and Barnes, M. and De Vera, M.A.
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djaf120Cancer
Sassine, S. and Ilinca, A.P. and Coltin, H. and Bittencourt, H. and Athale, U. and Bowes, L. and Brossard, J. and Israels, S. and Johnston, D.L. and Kulkarni, K. and McKillop, S. and Rayar, M. and Sinha, R. and Truong, T. and V{\'e}zina, C. and Wheaton, L. and Zorzi, A.P. and Sung, L. and Pelland-Marcotte, M.-C. and Tran, T.H.
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.35673Pediatric Allergy and Immunology
Duke, S. and Maiarana, J. and Yousefi, P. and Burks, E. and Gerrie, S. and Setiadi, A. and Amid, A. and Boerkel, C. and Erdle, S. and Guttman, O. and Kanani, A. and Lawrence, S. and Lee, A.F. and Pourshahnazari, P. and Rayar, M. and Rozmus, J. and Schrader, D. and Sharma, M. and Shopsowitz, K.E. and Tan, R. and To, F. and Yang, C. and Hildebrand, K.J. and James, E. and Turvey, S.E. and Markle, J.G. and Biggs, C.M.
DOI: 10.1111/pai.14077Current Oncology
Oveisi, N. and Cheng, V. and Taylor, D. and Bechthold, H. and Barnes, M. and Jansen, N. and McTaggart-Cowan, H. and Brotto, L.A. and Peacock, S. and Hanley, G.E. and Gill, S. and Rayar, M. and Srikanthan, A. and De Vera, M.A.
DOI: 10.3390/curroncol31040128Cancers
Oveisi, N. and Cheng, V. and Ellis, U. and Peacock, S. and McTaggart-Cowan, H. and Brotto, L.A. and Loree, J. and Hanley, G.E. and Gill, S. and Rayar, M. and Srikanthan, A. and De Vera, M.A.
DOI: 10.3390/cancers15061707JNCI Cancer Spectrum
Oveisi, N. and Cheng, V. and Brotto, L.A. and Peacock, S. and McTaggart-Cowan, H. and Hanley, G. and Gill, S. and Rayar, M. and Srikanthan, A. and Ellis, U. and De Vera, M.A.
DOI: 10.1093/jncics/pkad087Leukemia and Lymphoma
Tibout, P. and Ledjiar, O. and Athale, U. and Rayar, M. and Kulkarni, K. and Truong, T. and Cellot, S. and Bittencourt, H. and Pelland-Marcotte, M.-C. and Tran, T.H.
DOI: 10.1080/10428194.2022.2118536European Journal of Haematology
Lim, Y.J. and Arbiv, O.A. and Kalbfleisch, M.E. and Klaassen, R.J. and Fernandez, C. and Rayar, M. and Steele, M. and Lipton, J.H. and Cuvelier, G. and Pastore, Y.D. and Silva, M. and Brossard, J. and Michon, B. and Abish, S. and Sinha, R. and Corriveau-Bourque, C. and Breakey, V.R. and Tole, S. and Goodyear, L. and Sung, L. and Zlateska, B. and Cada, M. and Dror, Y.
DOI: 10.1111/ejh.13733CMAJ
Pelland-Marcotte, M.-C. and Xie, L. and Barber, R. and Elkhalifa, S. and Frechette, M. and Kaur, J. and Onysko, J. and Bouffet, E. and Fernandez, C.V. and Mitchell, D. and Rayar, M. and Randall, A. and Stammers, D. and Larouche, V. and Airhart, A. and Fidler-Benaoudia, M. and Cohen-Gogo, S. and Sung, L. and Gibson, P.
DOI: 10.1503/CMAJ.210659British Journal of Haematology
Catal, A. and Ali, S.S. and Cuvelier, G.D.E. and Steele, M. and Klaassen, R.J. and Fernandez, C.V. and Pastore, Y.D. and Abish, S. and Rayar, M. and Jardine, L. and Breakey, V.R. and Brossard, J. and Sinha, R. and Silva, M. and Goodyear, L. and Lipton, J.H. and Michon, B. and Corriveau-Bourque, C. and Sung, L. and Lauhasurayotin, S. and Zlateska, B. and Cada, M. and Dror, Y.
DOI: 10.1111/bjh.16445Pediatric Blood and Cancer
Truong, T.H. and Pole, J.D. and Bittencourt, H. and Schechter, T. and Cuvelier, G.D.E. and Paulson, K. and Rayar, M. and Mitchell, D. and Schultz, K.R. and O'Shea, D. and Barber, R. and Sung, L.
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.28263JCI Insight
Heidemann, S. and Bursic, B. and Zandi, S. and Li, H. and Abelson, S. and Klaassen, R.J. and Abish, S. and Rayar, M. and Breakey, V.R. and Moshiri, H. and Dhanraj, S. and De Borja, R. and Shlien, A. and Dick, J.E. and Dror, Y.
DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.131018Supportive Care in Cancer
Stein, E. and Rayar, M. and Krishnadev, U. and Gupta, A. and Hyslop, S. and Plenert, E. and Schechter-Finkelstein, T. and Sung, L.
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-019-04673-9Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Truong, T.H. and Pole, J.D. and Bittencourt, H. and Schechter, T. and Cuvelier, G.D.E. and Paulson, K. and Rayar, M. and Mitchell, D. and Schultz, K.R. and O'Shea, D. and Barber, R. and Wall, D. and Sung, L.
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2019.02.009npj Genomic Medicine
Lauhasurayotin, S. and Cuvelier, G.D. and Klaassen, R.J. and Fernandez, C.V. and Pastore, Y.D. and Abish, S. and Rayar, M. and Steele, M.G. and Jardine, L. and Breakey, V.R. and Brossard, J. and Sinha, R. and Silva, M. and Goodyear, L. and Lipton, J.H. and Michon, B. and Corriveau-Bourque, C. and Sung, L. and Shabanova, I. and Li, H. and Zlateska, B. and Dhanraj, S. and Cada, M. and Scherer, S.W. and Dror, Y.
DOI: 10.1038/s41525-019-0104-9International Forum of Allergy and Rhinology
Banglawala, S.M. and Schlosser, R.J. and Morella, K. and Chandra, R. and Khetani, J. and Poetker, D.M. and Rayar, M. and Rudmik, L. and Sautter, N.B. and Sommer, D.D. and Smith, T.L. and Soler, Z.M.
DOI: 10.1002/alr.21690Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Penner, M. and Rayar, M. and Bashir, N. and Roberts, S.W. and Hancock-Howard, R.L. and Coyte, P.C.
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-015-2447-0Pediatric Blood and Cancer
Cheng, S. and Rayar, M. and Punnett, A.
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.25638Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Rayar, M. and Webber, C.E. and Nayiager, T. and Sala, A. and Barr, R.D.
DOI: 10.1097/MPH.0b013e318279eea2Pediatric Blood and Cancer
Rayar, M.S. and Nayiager, T. and Webber, C.E. and Barr, R.D. and Athale, U.H.
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.24040Paediatrics and Child Health
Ratnapalan, S. and Rayar, M.S. and Crawley, M.
DOI: 10.1093/pch/14.7.433International Urology and Nephrology
Filler, G. and Rayar, M.S. and Da Silva, O. and Buffo, I. and Pepelassis, D. and Sharma, A.P.
DOI: 10.1007/s11255-007-9328-1Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship
Clinicial Graduate Degree Scholarship
Clinical Research Fellowship Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario
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