BC Cancer scientist Dr. Ly Vu is one of 11 recipients of A Grant of Her Own: The Women Scientists Innovation Award for Cancer Research. This new granting program, developed by the V Foundation for Cancer Research, sees $8 million in funding invested in cancer research being led by women scientists. Dr.
A recent study conducted by researchers at BC Cancer has shed light on the cause behind the different outcomes of patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) who experience a relapse of their disease. The study, led by Dr. Laura Hilton, staff scientist at BC Cancer’s Centre for Lymphoid Cancer (CLC), and Dr. David Scott, clinical director of the CLC, aimed to understand the molecular characteristics of the initial diagnostic and relapse tumour samples of patients with DLBCL.
Dr. Carol Chen is dedicated to understanding the complexities and finding innovative solutions to high-grade gliomas (HGGs); a particularly aggressive form of brain cancer affecting children and young adults. The new BC Cancer scientist, who joined the Terry Fox Laboratory in 2023, is focused on understanding how mutations in certain proteins, called histones or histone-modifying enzymes, contribute to the development of HGGs.
Congratulations to Dr. Peter Lansdorp (Lansdorp Lab), along with Dr. Kasmintan Schrader and Dr. Steven Jones, for being awarded a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Project Grant for the project titled “Parent-Of-Origin-Aware Genomic Analysis in Hereditary Cancer."
Congratulations to Dr. Peter Stirling (Stirling Lab) for being awarded a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Project Grant for the project titled “Dominant genetics of cohesion pathway proteins to kill cancer."
Congratulations to Dr. Kwangjin Park of Hoodless Lab for being retroactively awarded a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) 2022 Post Doctoral Fellowship. This compliments his 2022 Michael Smith Health Research BC Fellowship.
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