Dr. Patrick Tang
Medical Microbiologist, Laboratory Services, BCCDC and Clinical Assistant Professor, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, UBC
Dr. Tang is a Medical Microbiologist at the BCCDC and a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of British Columbia. He is the Program Head of the Tuberculosis/Mycobacteriology Laboratory and the Molecular Microbiology and Genomics Program. Along with Dr. Jennifer Gardy, he also heads the Genome Research Laboratory at BCCDC. He received a combined MD/PhD at UBC and completed residency training in Medical Microbiology at the University of Toronto. Prior to joining the BCCDC, he was a Visiting Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco where he used metagenomics to hunt for novel viruses. Dr. Tang’s research interests are in the application of metagenomics to public health and infectious diseases as well as the development of new molecular diagnostics. His research projects include searching for infectious agents in cancer, genomic epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and viral genomics.
Gardy JL, Johnston JC, Ho Sui SJ, Cook VJ, Shah L, Brodkin E, Rempel S, Moore R, Zhao Y, Holt R, Varhol R, Birol I, Lem M, Sharma MK, Elwood K, Jones SJ,Brinkman FS, Brunham RC, Tang P. Whole-genome sequencing and social-networkanalysis of a tuberculosis outbreak. N Engl J Med. 2011 Feb 24;364(8):730-9.Erratum in: N Engl J Med. 2011 Jun 2;364(22):2174.
Skowronski DM, Janjua NZ, De Serres G, Hottes TS, Dickinson JA, Crowcroft N,Kwindt TL, Tang P, Charest H, Fonseca K, Gubbay JB, Bastien N, Li Y, Petric M.Effectiveness of AS03 adjuvanted pandemic H1N1 vaccine: case-control evaluationbased on sentinel surveillance system in Canada, autumn 2009. BMJ. 2011 Feb3;342:c7297. doi: 10.1136/bmj.c7297.
Morshed M, Tang P, Petric M, Krajden M, Roth D, Henry B, Isaac-Renton J; the BCCDC West Nile Virus Team. West Nile Virus Finally Debuts in British Columbia 10 Years After Its Introduction to North America. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis. 2010 Oct 28.
Janjua NZ, Skowronski DM, Hottes TS, Osei W, Adams E, Petric M, Sabaiduc S, Chan T, Mak A, Lem M, Tang P, Patrick DM, De Serres G, Bowering D. Seasonal influenza vaccine and increased risk of pandemic A/H1N1‐related illness: first detection of the association in British Columbia, Canada. Clin Infect Dis. 2010 Nov 1;51(9):1017-27.
Tang P, Chiu C. Metagenomics for the discovery of novel human viruses. Future Microbiol. 2010 Feb;5(2):177-89. Review.