Penuela Lab receives Canada Foundation for Innovation’s Grant

Dr. Silvia Penuela with members of her lab

Congratulations to the Penuela Lab who, on Monday August 12th, 2019, were named as one of the six Western University project recipients of the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) John R. Evans Leaders Fund.

The funding provideded by CFI will go to supporting the Penuela Lab's cancer based project, An integrated platform for pre-clinical testing of melanoma treatments, which looks at Pannexin 1 and its regulation of malanoma tumors.

For more information on the listing of all fund recipients and their projects, please see the full Western News article.