Reflecting on the Pace of Cancer Discovery
In his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of cancer, “The Emperor of All Maladies,” Siddhartha Mukherjee quotes the Red Queen from Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking …
Genomics
Love what you do and it doesn’t feel like work
My name is Intan Schrader and I am co-medical director of the Hereditary Cancer Program with Sophie Sun. I am a medical geneticist, specializing …
Come Together
Waiting for the elevators at the BC Cancer Agency Research Centre, I see the plaque commemorating the Jambor-McCarthy gift to the BC Cancer Foundation. …
We Can Work It Out
Over the past 13 years at the Genome Sciences Centre, I have led the development of teams of professional leaders, managers and coordinators, with …
A long and winding road
Like most people, I’m sure; I had no idea when I finished school what I would be doing today. I’ve been fortunate to find …
Research Enabler
I’m delighted to be this month’s blogger for the BC Cancer Foundation. Over the next month, I hope to share with a bit about …
Research leads to better understanding and diagnosis of blood cancers
Last week I blogged about what led me to study blood cancers and how they come about. This week, I will update you on …
Questions of medicine and science formed half way ‘round the world
My path to a career in science and medicine was convoluted, but not without direction. I grew up in east Africa on an island …
Cancer research continues to reveal exciting advances
Cancer is a complex disease, and so cancer research is by necessity multifaceted and involves lots of collaboration. We are fortunate in B.C. to …
A Petabase: no ordinary number
As Head of Bioinformatics at the Genome Sciences Centre, my role is to oversee the computational analysis of the DNA sequence data that we …