The BCCF Innovation Support Fund Awardees are:
The BC Cancer Foundation, in partnership with BC Cancer, established the Innovation Support Fund competition in 2010 to enable the acquisition of equipment essential to conducting research.
Congratulations to the Weng Lab on their publication in Nature Communications: Single-cell profiling reveals a memory B cell-like subtype of follicular lymphoma with increased transformation risk
Kwanjin Park (Hoodless Lab) has been awarded the Michael Smith Health Research BC 2022 Research Trainee Award for the project titled, "Roles of the Lysine Methyl Transferase (KMT) 2d in hepatocyte identity and hepatocellular carcinoma progression."
Michael Smith Health Research BC’s Research Trainee Program supports health researchers in the training phase of their research career to enable career development and enrich BC’s health research talent.
Lorenzo Lindo (Hay Lab) awarded Four Year Doctoral Fellowship starting September 2022
Afsaneh Panahi (Kuchenbauer lab) awarded IMS Young Investigator Award for Exemplary Abstract
Afsaneh Panahi (Kuchenbauer lab) awarded Dr. Andrew R Belch MEET Grant from Myeloma Canada
Xingjian (Tom) Zhai (Collings Stevens Chronic Leukemia Research Laboratory) awarded Four Year Doctoral Fellowship starting September 2022
BC Cancer Foundation is the fundraising partner of BC Cancer, which includes BC Cancer Research. Together with our donors, we are changing cancer outcomes for British Columbians by funding innovative research and personalized treatment and care.