The BC Cancer Excellence Awards provide an opportunity to shine a light on the inspiring people and teams who help ensure that British Columbians receive world-class, patient-centred cancer screening, treatment and support, and benefit from new discoveries that are helping change the face of cancer.

Dr. Arefeh Rouhi is a doctor and scientist, research at the Terry Fox Laboratories, BC Cancer Research Institute. She is the winner of this year’s BC Cancer Excellence Award in the category of Workplace Inspiration.

The BCCF Innovation Support Fund Awardees are:

• Ly Vu & Christian Steidl - equipment: Bio-Rad ChemiDoc Imaging System
• Pamela Hoodless - equipment: Thermo EVOS M5000 Cell Imaging Microscope

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

Kwangjin 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."

​​​​​​Lorenzo Lindo (Hay Lab) awarded Four Year Doctoral Fellowship starting September 2022

• Project Title: Engineering Microenvironment-Modulating CAR T-Cells for Multiple Myeloma

Afsaneh Panahi (Kuchenbauer lab) awarded IMS Young Investigator Award for Exemplary Abstract

• Project Title: Identification of misclassified multiple myeloma patient risk subgroups with a novel biological disease stratifier​

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

• Project Title: Molecular Investigation of a Novel Combination Therapy for Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Ly Vu has been awarded the Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar Award for the project titled, "Post-transcriptional regulation of hematopoietic stem cell function during normal and malignant hematopoiesis."

The Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar Program supports early-career health researchers who are building leading-edge health research programs, training the next generation of scientists and expanding their potential to make significant contributions to their field.