This is Personal – Martin Krzywinski
Martin Krzywinski, artist, musician, Polish-Canadian, scientist at BC Cancer, shares how his work as a data visualist sparks the imagination and helps people better …
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Why we need to expand personalized cancer treatment in British Columbia
Personalized Onco-Genomics needs to grow if we’re to fully address the cancer problem here in British Columbia. Right now we have around 26,000 new cancer diagnoses …
Experimental study revolutionizes cancer care across globe
The origins of POG We chart the origins of the Personalized Onco-Genomics (POG) platform to an experience that occurred around 9 years ago. We had …
Dr. Marra on cancer: “We’ve really got to get a handle on this”
Hello, my name is Dr. Marco Marra. I’m a distinguished scientist at BC Cancer, a professor of medical genetics at the University of British …
Introducing February guest blogger Dr. Marco Marra
Thank you to Dr. Connors for his insightful and informative posts this past month. It is pleasing to know that lymphoid cancer patients have some …
Cancer Research Turns Personal
My PhD was a veritable roller coaster of scares, successes, utter failures, exciting discoveries, disappointments, and a few seemingly insurmountable problems. The stakes are …
My Path to a Career in Cancer Research (Part III)
The sequencers at the GSC were rapidly gaining improvements in read length and throughput. I spent my time working with the more interesting (and …
My Path to a Career in Cancer Research (Part II)
The GSC was a part of a large consortium that was producing resources and data to help better annotate the human genome. I started …