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One of the Foundation’s major objectives relates to the investigation and support of complementary and alternative medicine, particularly in the treatment of cancer.

Afsaneh will present her abstract at 18th International Myeloma Workshop in Vienna, Austria taking place September 8 to 11, 2021.

Dr. Peter Stirling (Stirling Lab) received grant funding from the France Canada Research Fund for his research entitled “Developing splice-switching oligonucleotides to rewire splicing SF3B1-mutated myelodysplastic syndromes”.

Congratulations to Dr. Kuchenbauer for receiving $50,000 USD in Proteona’s ESCAPE™ multi-omic single cell analysis services.

The Four Year Doctoral Fellowship (4YF) program ensures that UBC's best PhD, DMA, and MDPhD students are provided with financial support for up to four years of their doctoral studies.

Andrew Wu, MSc student (Jiang Lab) successfully defended his thesis entitled, "Characterization of the miR-185-PAK6-Mediated Survival and Cell Cycle Controls in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia" on March 22, 2021.