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The BC Cancer Excellence Awards provide an opportunity to shine a light on the inspiring people and teams who help ensure that British Columbians receive world-class, patient-centred cancer screening, treatment and support, and benefit from new discoveries that are helping change the face of cancer.

Dr. Arefeh Rouhi is a doctor and scientist, research at the Terry Fox Laboratories, BC Cancer Research Institute. She is the winner of this year’s BC Cancer Excellence Award in the category of Workplace Inspiration.

The Doctors of BC Terry Fox Medal is awarded to outstanding individuals who have a track record of making a difference in cancer care. It is our pleasure to share that Dr. Dixie L. Mager, distinguished scientist emeritus at the Terry Fox Laboratory, BC Cancer Research Institute, is the recipient of this year’s prestigious award.

The BCCF Innovation Support Fund Awardees are:

• Ly Vu & Christian Steidl - equipment: Bio-Rad ChemiDoc Imaging System
• Pamela Hoodless - equipment: Thermo EVOS M5000 Cell Imaging Microscope

The BC Cancer Foundation, in partnership with BC Cancer, established the Innovation Support Fund competition in 2010 to enable the acquisition of equipment essential to conducting research. 

Congratulations to the Weng Lab on their publication in Nature Communications: Single-cell profiling reveals a memory B cell-like subtype of follicular lymphoma with increased transformation risk

Kwangjin Park (Hoodless Lab) has been awarded the Michael Smith Health Research BC 2022 Research Trainee Award for the project titled, "Roles of the Lysine Methyl Transferase (KMT) 2d in hepatocyte identity and hepatocellular carcinoma progression."