2025

  • 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.