@queensu announced a $25M gift from Cara and Murray Sinclair to boost cancer research, build new facilities, and launch training programs. The Queen's Cancer Research Institute will be renamed the Cara & Murray Sinclair Cancer Research Institute (SCRI). queensu.ca/alumni/news/cance…
It was wonderful to welcome Cara and Murray Sinclair (Comm '84) to visit us on June 10th! Amazing people with a passion to make a difference for other families impacted by cancer. The beginning of a wonderful partnership with our cancer researchers @queensu@queensualumni
“Cell therapies are living drugs. It's a brand-new way of treating cancer.” @AnnetteHay1’s cutting-edge research bolstered by a $25M gift to @QueensuSCRI@QueensU. Learn how it will support the ultimate goal of a local biomanufacturing facility: bit.ly/45hemSV
@CIHR_IRSC has announced $3,056,176 in funding over 5 years, for the TACtful trial investigating a novel cell therapy using the immune system to treat people with relapsed and refractory multiple #myeloma. @McMasteResearch#CCTGbit.ly/3OjqGtP
.@CIHR_IRSC funding announced for GCAR1 a Phase I feasibility & safety study of CAR T-cell therapy for patients with relapsed/refractory GPNMB-Expressing solid tumors. Dr Shafey, Dr Abdul Razak, Dr Hay, Dr Henning, Dr Kekre, Dr Mahoney, Dr Morrissy... bit.ly/3DUg8wm
Amazing. Bill, the new lab tech at QLMP is amazing us with his coverslipping skills and tissue-issue knowledge. We are humbled. @QueensPathology #histologypro
Wow! Impressive data in @NEJM from our Italian colleagues at Bambino Gesu @bambinogesu in Rome. CART (with caspase 9 suicide gene) in Neuroblastoma: Overall response, 63%; 9 patients had a complete response, and 8 had a partial response. nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJ…
COMING SOON - New funding opportunity: The @cancersociety and our partners are proud to announce the inaugural Research Training Awards to build capacity in the cancer research ecosystem and support the next generation of researchers across Canada.
More details below.
It’s Christmas in February! The amazing Akoya tech is here (literally all the way from Kalamazoo!) installing the new PhenoImager. Woo-hoo! @excellirate @CHI_CIS @CDNCancerTrials
CHOP researchers have published a three-year update of CAR T-cell therapy in pediatric and young adult patients with relapsed/refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia in the ELIANA trial via @JCO_ASCO: bit.ly/3Axomtd.
“We cannot control the winds, but we can adjust our sails to work together and keep moving in the right direction” - a fantastic sailing analogy by one of our esteemed speakers, Dr Annette Hay, Senior Investigator, CCTG - Excellirate.
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