2025
Porter receives Cancer Research Collaboration and Play For A Cure Funding
October 05, 2025
Dr. Lisa Porter of Windsor received $30,000 from Cancer Research Collaboration and Play For A Cure for her study "Dissecting the Biology of Disease Progression and Drug Resistance of Glioblastoma."Centre for Translational Cancer Research Welcomes New Members
October 04, 2025
The CTCR welcomes 9 new members to add to its growing list of members. Members include Lina Dagnino PhD (researcher), Lorin Dodbiba MD (Medical Oncologist), Stephanie Gulstene MD (Radiation Oncologist), Lilian Hanna (Medical Oncologist), Eric Lessard PhD (Physicist), Rob Stodilka (Physicist), Duncan Sutherland MD (Radiologist), Mina Swiha MD (Radiologist), and Saurav Verma MD (Medical Oncologist).Dr. Hu awarded France-Canada Research Fund
October 03, 2025
Dr. Pingzhao Hu (Western University) and Dr. Jonathan Weitzman (Université Paris Cité) awarded $15,000 from the France-Canada Research Fund for their research project entitled "Characterizing Pin1 inhibitors designed using generative A1".Scientist awarded Dr. Roger Hayward Rogers funding
October 02, 2025
Dr. Saman Maleki was awarded $10,000 from the Dr. Roger Hayward Rogers legacy awards committee as a result of his outstanding application package. The Dr. Rogers Prize for Advancing Health, Medicine and Healing is Canada’s largest award recognizing innovation, leadership, and achievement in health care. A biennial award valued at $300,000, the Prize honours the legacy of Vancouver physician Dr. Roger Hayward Rogers, a pioneer in patient-centered and integrative medicine. Since 2007, the Prize has celebrated individuals whose work bridges conventional and more novel integrative approaches, advancing the science and practice of healing. The Dr. Rogers Prize is funded by the Lotte and John Hecht Memorial Foundation.CTCR Director appointed Vice Dean, Clinical Academic Affairs
October 01, 2025
Dr. Glenn Bauman, Director of the Centre for Translational Cancer Research (CTCR) has been appointed Vice Dean, Clinical Academic Affairs effective December 1, 2025, to November 30, 2030. Dr. Bauman is a Distinguished Professor, Departments of Oncology, and Medical Biophysics, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, and radiation oncologist at the Verspeeten Family Cancer Centre, London Health Sciences Centre.Oncology Award of Excellence
June 12, 2025
The Department of Oncology honoured five of its faculty members with its highest award at this year's annual Research & Education Day. Three of the awardees, namely Jim Petrik PhD Daniel Breadner MD, and Armen Parsyan MD PhD are all members of the Centre for Translational Cancer Research. Congratulations!Dr. Ting-Yim Lee receives Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists Gold Medal
June 05, 2025
Dr. Ting-Yim Lee was recently awarded the Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists (COMP) highest award, the gold medal recognizing Lee's innovation, leadership and global impact in advancing medical imaging at this year's annual scientific meetings held in London, Ontario.Canadian Institutes of Health Research grants (Spring 2025 Competition)
June 02, 2025
Seven Centre for Translational Cancer Research members were recently awarded Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) funding this past spring. Members include Drs. Rodney DeKoter, Aaron Fenster, S.M. Mansour Haeryfar, Pingzhao Hu, Saman Maleki, Joseph S. Mymryk and Caroline Schild-Poulter. Click http://bit.ly/4ma3r54 for funding and project details.LHSC Medical Physicists wins Inaugural Funding Award
May 01, 2025
Donna Murrell PhD. MCCPM. medical physicists at London Health Sciences Centre is the inaugural recipient of the Lung Cancer Canada: Give A Breath Research Award. Dr. Murrell received $25,000 to support a clinical trial studying how much repeat radiation can safely be given to patients previously treated for lung cancer."Member Appointed Assistant Dean, Western University
May 01, 2025
Congratulations to Dr. Silvia Penuela on being appointed Assistant Dean, Translational Research at Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University. Dr. Penuela is a member of the Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology and is appointed to the Department of Oncology.Member Receives 2025 Schulich Awards of Excellence
May 01, 2025
Dr. Matthew Cecchini was recently awarded the Schulich Awards of Excellence - Research Award for Faculty (Early Career).Schulich Faculty Support for Research in Education Grant (FSRE)
April 16, 2025
Alison Allan PhD and Michael Sanatani MD for "Incorporating the patient perspective in oncology education: a mixed-methods research study."Prostate Cancer Fight Foundation (PCFF) & Ride For Dad (RFD)
April 15, 2025
Saman Maleki PhD, $20,000 for "Association between aNdrogen axis-targeted ThErapies and GastroinTestinal microbiota in patients with prostate cancer (INTEGUT)."Lawson and LHSCRI Internal Research Fund (IRF)
April 14, 2025
Eva Turley PhD with Len Luyt PhD, Eugene Wong PhD and Sarah Mattonen PhD $20,000 for "Targeting RHAMM to manage lung toxicity and increase NSCLC tumour sensitivity to radiotherapy." Qi Zhang MD PhD for "Unravelling Molecular Alternations in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: What is Missed Under the Microscope."NSERC Discovery Grant Recipients
April 02, 2025
Seven members of the Centre for Translational Cancer Research recently received Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grant funding. For more details on their project and funding, click here: http://bit.ly/45t1jjbAMOSO 2024-2025 Grant Recipients Announced
April 01, 2025
Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) Alternate Funding Plant (AFP) Clinical Innovation Fund Award: John Lenehan MD, $59,000 for 2 years for "CHemotherapy and Stool Transplantation in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (CHASe-PDAC) phase 1 safety trial." Ana Lohmann MD PhD and Stephen Welch MD $199,050 over 2 years for "Association of Liquid Biopsy and Endometrial Cancer Outcomes."CIHR Project Grant - 2024 Fall Competition
February 03, 2025
CIHR Project Grant - 2024 Fall Competition Catalyst Grant: Development and Validation of New Biomedical Techniques and Technologies Len Luyt PhD, (Depts. of Chemistry, and Oncology) $300,000 over 2 years for "Cyclic Peptide Nanotubes as a Platform Technology for Cancer Imaging Agents and Theranostics." Co-applicants include: Chris Pin PhD, Michael Kovacs PhD (Imaging), Ting Lee PhD. Collaborators include Glenn Bauman MD. Project Grants: Paula Foster PhD, (Depts. of Medical Biophysics and Oncology) – $677,025 over 5 years for “Developing Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) Lymphography.” Co-Applicant: Armen Parsyan MD. John McCormick PhD, (Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology) - $1,155,150 over 5 years for “Staphylococcal superantigens at the commensal-pathogen interface.” Trevor Shepherd PhD, (Depts. of Ob/Gyn, Oncology and Anatomy & Cell Biology) - $879,750 over 5 years for “Evaluation of pharmacologic LKB1 inhibition as a new therapeutic strategy against ovarian cancer metastasis.” Co-Applicants include Jim Petrik PhD. Caroline Schild-Poulter PhD, (Depts. of Biochemistry, and Oncology) – $100,000 for “Investigating the molecular pathology of WDR26 deficiency”. Co-Applicant: Natalie Bérubé PhD. Krishna Kumar Singh PhD, (Depts. of Anatomy & Cell Biology, and Medical Biophysics) - $100,000 for “Novel Mechanisms in Doxorubicin-induced Cardiomyopathy.” Co-Applicants include Alison Allan PhD. Congratulations to the following members who were co-applicants on other successful grant applications: Michael Boffa PhD, Dan Lizotte PhD, and John Ronald PhD.Canadian Space Agency Grant Funding
January 01, 2025
Paula Foster PhD, $250,000 - "A novel in vivo imaging approach to reveal the effects of space-mediated immune cell dysregulation in hindlimb unloaded mouse models of cancer and inflammation."CTCR Launches Trainee Spotlight
January 01, 2025
The Centre for Translational Cancer Research recently launched a bi-monthly trainee spotlight where 5 cancer trainees are randomly selected and featured on its website. To date: Rober Abdo, Ryan Au, Natasha Sophie Bruce, Nitara Fernando, Oneeb Hassan, Morgan He, Megan Hong, Saqib Khan, Katelyn MacNeil, Julia Mason, Zhaocheng Nie, Jack Webb, Alyssa Wu, Timothy Yau and Komila Zakirova have been featured. Reach out to Kimberly.Scott@lhsc.on.ca to inquire about potentially being featured.
