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Strategic Priority Fund Award: Dr. Peter Lansdorp
Support from the Strategic Priority Fund Award will allow Dr. Peter Lansdorp, distinguished scientist, BC Cancer Research Centre, and his colleague Dr. Intan Schrader, …
Strategic Priority Fund Award: Dr. Haishan Zeng
Support from the Strategic Priority Fund Award will allow Dr. Haishan Zeng, distinguished scientist, imaging unit – integrative oncology, to embark on his project …
Strategic Priority Fund Award: Dr. Dean Regier
Dr. Dean Regier, scientist, BC Cancer Agency, will use the support from his Strategic Priority Fund award to embark on his Personalized Onco-Genomics focused …
Strategic Priority Fund Award: Dr. Dirk van Niekerk
Support from the Strategic Priority Fund Award will allow Dr. Dirk van Niekerk, medical director, Cervical Screening Program, BC Cancer Agency, to embark on …
Strategic Priority Fund Award: Dr. Pierre Lane
Dr. Pierre Lane, senior scientist, will use the support from his Strategic Priority Fund award to embark on his research project titled Novel image-guided …
Strategic Priority Fund Award: Dr. David Huntsman
Dr. David Huntsman, Dr. Chew Wei memorial professor of gynecologic oncology and director of the BC multidisciplinary ovarian cancer research team (OVCARE), will use …
Strategic Priority Fund Award: Dr. Connie Eaves
Support from the Strategic Priority Fund award will allow Dr. Connie Eaves, distinguished scientist, and her colleagues Drs Davide Pellicani and Martin Hirst to …
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 …
B.C. Clinical Trials: A Unique Approach Achieves Results
Yesterday started off well but ended poorly. I saw Chris for his regular visit – he’d just returned from a vacation …
Finding New Hope Through Clinical Trials
As a medical oncologist, I specialize in treating about five cancer types, and the main focus of my current research is in bladder …