Dr. Shoukat Dedhar awarded UBC Killam Research Prize
Congratulations to Dr. Shoukat Dedhar for receiving the 2019 Faculty of Medicine UBC Killam Research Prize.
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Dr. Andrew Minchinton receives CIHR project grant of $573,750 for “Hypoxia-activated DNA Repair Inhibitors to Improve Cancer Therapy”
Congratulations to Dr. Andrew Minchinton for receiving a CIHR project grant of $573,750 for “Hypoxia-activated DNA Repair Inhibitors to Improve Cancer Therapy”.
BC Cancer researchers and clinicians part of Canadian metastatic cancer “Dream Team”
The team will investigate new therapies that could stop the process by which breast cancer tumours spread.
A MSE Research Grant awarded to Dr. Peter Lansdorp by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (US) to generate Strand-seq data on human reference samples
Reference collections of human genomes are a critically important resource for biomedical discovery. We recently described that the single cell Strand-seq method, which was developed in my laboratory, has unique potential to detect large polymorphic inversions and map them onto fully phased genome assemblies.
BC Cancer study on prostate cancer radiotracer yields precise results and enacts change
The results have lead physicians to change cancer management plans in 87 per cent of cases
New treatment aims to knock out cancer with a one-two punch
Pre-clinical trials conducted by BC Cancer Research show promising results as a treatment for certain types of advanced cancer
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