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Dr. Samuel Aparicio named co-lead of new Stand Up to Cancer Canada – Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation Dream Team
Dr. Samuel Aparicio named co-lead of new Stand Up to Cancer Canada – Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation Dream Team By: Jenn Currie, Communications Officer, BC Cancer Agency published on: 10/1/2015 Congratulations to our very own Dr. Samuel Aparicio who was recently named co-lead of the Stand Up to Cancer Canada—Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation Dream Team! […]
Significant childhood cancer discovery made by scientists at the BC Cancer Agency
Research published today by scientists at the BC Cancer Agency in Cancer Cell brings new hope for the treatment of high-risk childhood sarcomas – a type of cancer that has seen almost no treatment improvement in the last 20 years in spite of intense research efforts. Sarcomas are malignant – meaning they are cancerous – […]
Dr. Francois Benard and TRIUMF team win NSERC Brockhouse Prize
NSERC Brockhouse Prize For CycloMed99 17 February 2015 For their outstanding teamwork in realizing a solution for safe and reliable isotope production for hospitals in Canada, interdisciplinary research team CycloMed99 will be receiving a prestigious national award at a ceremony in Ottawa today. The Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, will present the NSERC Brockhouse Canada […]
BC Cancer Agency scientists make internationally significant discovery, mapping the evolution of breast cancer ‘avatars’
Vancouver – A just-published paper in the prestigious journal Nature highlights how researchers at the BC Cancer Agency are using human breast cancer ‘avatars’ — models of human breast cancers — to measure how complex cancers develop and change over time. The research is unprecedented because it uses single cancer cells to expose how breast […]
Dr. Samuel Aparicio named 2014 Aubrey J. Tingle Prize winner
Dr. Samuel Aparicio, 2014 Aubrey J. Tingle Prize recipient (photo: CNW Group/Canadian Cancer Society (National Office)) Breast cancer researcher Dr. Samuel Aparicio has been named the winner of the fifth annual Aubrey J. Tingle Prize. Created in honour of MSFHR’s founding president & CEO, this award is given to a British Columbia researcher whose work […]
Vancouver cancer researchers now key players on ‘dream team’
From the Vancouver Province By Mike Raptis The Province April 7, 2013 A group of Vancouver researchers will be playing a central role in a newly-formed international “pediatric cancer dream team.” The announcement came Sunday during the 2013 annual meeting of the St. Baldrick’s Foundation at the American Association for Cancer Research in Washington, D.C. The […]
Molecular Oncology Researchers Receive $1.25M Grant from the Canadian Cancer Society
Outsmarting breast cancer, one cell at a time With a $1.25 million grant from the Canadian Cancer Society, Dr Sam Aparicio and his team will answer questions about how breast cancer arises, grows and mutates. The researchers will use sophisticated techniques to analyze DNA from individual breast cancer cells and then observe how the cells […]
Department of Molecular Oncology researchers identify a genetic link between several rare cancers
Dr. David Huntsman and colleagues, including Drs. Aparicio, Sorensen and Shah, have identified mutations in a gene called DICER in rare, seemingly unrelated ovarian, uterine, and testicular cancers. When the group began sequencing the genomes of these and other rare tumours, they expected to find different gene mutations in each form of the disease. However, […]
Department of Molecular Oncology scientist to tackle medical isotopes problem
The world is facing a shortage of the key medical isotope Technetium-99m (Tc-99m). More than 80% of the estimated 1.5 million nuclear medicine procedures performed annually in Canada use radiopharmaceuticals based on this isotope, which is currently produced using nuclear reactors. Together with TRIUMF and other partners, the BC Cancer Agency (BCCA) has received a […]