We are excited to announce the recipients of round two of the inaugural BC Cancer Clinician Researcher Start Up Competition.
BC Cancer Clinician Researcher Start Up Competition 2024 recipients – Round 2
Alan Nichol (BC Cancer – Vancouver): Predicting upgrades from non-invasive core biopsy specimens to invasive ductal carcinoma in surgical specimens using histology-based DNA organization analysis
Alison Weppler (BC Cancer – Vancouver): The utility of ctDNA to detect and monitor minimal residual disease in resected stage IIB-IV melanoma
Bernhard (Bernie) Eigl (BC Cancer – Vancouver): Evaluation of early ctDNA reduction as a surrogate marker of response in urothelial cancer
Deepesh Lad (BC Cancer – Vancouver): Impact of Inner Engineering Yoga (No Mind-Body) program on Distress in Recipients undergoing Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation (IMNoT)
Diego Villa (BC Cancer – Vancouver): Characterization of the Intestinal Microbiome in Patients with Mantle Cell Lymphoma
Juanita Crook (BC Cancer – Kelowna): Multi-omic Approach to Study High Dose Rate (HDR) Brachytherapy as Monotherapy for Favorable and Intermediate Risk Prostate Cancer (Brachy Tracks)
Zu-Hua Gao (BC Cancer – Vancouver): Hydrogel-based adhesive artificial mucosa (HAAM): a paradigm-shifting platform for postsurgical wound repair and local precision therapy of esophageal cancer
Applications were awarded across the following disciplines:
- medical oncology
- pathology
- radiation oncology
The Office of Research Administration received 16 applications and granted 7 recipients.
Funding for this competition was made available through the BC Ministry of Health and in collaboration with the BC Cancer Foundation.
The competition will help facilitate stand-alone research projects for clinician researchers at BC Cancer that will support future grant or investigator-initiated studies to be funded by other organizations. Read about the recipients of round one of the inaugural BC Cancer Clinician Researcher Start Up Competition.
Find the recipients of round one of the BC Cancer Clinician Researcher Start Up Competition here.