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Leading experts from across the country are putting on a united front to help restart the stalled momentum of cancer research in Canada.

Congratulations to Dr. Mónica Romera Hernández (Takei Lab) who has been awarded a MSHRF Research Trainee Award for her proposal entitled “Don't Let ILC3s Take Your Breath Away” and Mitacs Elevate Postdoctoral Fellowship for her proposal entitled “Discovery of antibodies against challenging membrane protein targets using microencapsulation-assisted rare clone selection”.

Congratulations to Justin White (Stirling Lab) who has been awarded a B.C. Graduate Scholarship for his project entitled "Investigating the role of translesion synthesis polymerases in mutation and chemotherapy resistance".

Congratulations to Louis-Alexandre Fournier (Stirling Lab) who has been awarded a CIHR Doctoral Award (Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship) for his project entitled “Investigating the role of ARID1A loss in cancer and its effects on R-loop accumulation and genome instability”.

Giovanna Cameron, supervisor of the Clinical Cell Therapy Laboratory (CCTL), helped solve patient care concerns by relieving symptoms with no added expense for patients.

Congratulations to Tabea Stephan (Hoodless Lab) who won first place for her poster at the 2020 BCRegMed 4th Annual Symposium, presenting her work entitled "Chromatin landscape and transcription factor networks driving human hepatocyte cell fate".