Congratulations to Dr. Shoukat Dedhar (Dedhar Lab), for being awarded $125,000 from the Cancer Research Society Charlotte Légaré Memorial Fund for his project, “Targeting Hypoxia-Driven Metabolic Effectors of Immunosuppression in Pancreatic Cancer.”
Congratulations to Dr. Fumio Takei (Takei Lab) and Dr. Marco Marra (Marra Lab), for receiving a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Project Grant Program for the project titled, “Innate lymphoid cells in hepatitis and liver fibrosis.”
Congratulations to Dr. Faezeh Borzooee (Kuchenbauer Lab), for receiving the Michael Smith Health Research BC Research Trainee award 2023 for the work titled, "Targeting APOBEC3 enzymes as novel metabolic regulators in multiple myeloma."
Congratulations to Dr. Athena Phoa for receiving the Michael Smith Health Research BC Research Trainee award 2023 for the work titled, "Restoration of miR-185 in combination with BCR-ABL downregulation by non-viral delivery of siRNA with lipomeric carriers and lipid nanoparticles sensitizes drug resistant cells to TKIs."
Canadian research teams, including several from BC Cancer, will receive a total of $2.4 million to advance cancer research and treatment following new awards in the 2023 Terry Fox New Frontiers Program Project Grant (PPG) competition.
Afsaneh Panahi, graduate student at the Kuchenbauer Lab has been awarded an International Myeloma Society (IMS) Young Investigator Award for Exemplary Abstract, for the abstract titled, “Dysregulated APOBEC3B promotes cell proliferation and DNA damage in multiple myeloma."
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