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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”.

The BC Cancer distinguished scientist joins the ranks of other esteemed scientists including Stephen Hawking, Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin.

Congratulations to Charu Sankaran (Hay Lab) who has been awarded a UBC Faculty of Medicine Summer Student Research Program scholarship for his research entitled "Improving the persistence of CAR T-cells using telomerase".

Congratulations to Lorenzo Lindo (Hay Lab) who has been awarded a CIHR – Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship – Master’s (CGS-M) for his research entitled "Engineering MicroMod CAR T-Cells to overcome the immunosuppressive microenvironment in myeloma".

The goal of these grants is to foster and support state-of-the-art investigator-initiated translational research that will contribute to improved prevention, early detection, diagnosis, and treatment.