Ly Vu awarded Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar Award

Ly Vu has been awarded the Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar Award for the project titled, "Post-transcriptional regulation of hematopoietic stem cell function during normal and malignant hematopoiesis."

The Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar Program supports early-career health researchers who are building leading-edge health research programs, training the next generation of scientists and expanding their potential to make significant contributions to their field.

First made-in-Canada CAR-T cell therapy for cancer shows promise in clinical trial

More than a dozen people with cancer who had exhausted all treatment options are alive and cancer-free today thanks to a pioneering Canadian clinical trial of a highly personalized kind of immunotherapy. The results, presented at the 2022 Cell Therapy Transplant Canada Conference, could open the door to a new era of made-in-Canada immunotherapies for cancer.

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