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2024 - demolition complete 2025 - new year, new renovation, new science, new hope @CDNCancerTrials @queensu @InnovationCA @KingstonHSC #SolvingCancerTogether
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@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…
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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
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“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
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Excited for us to bring this therapy to our patients with multiple myeloma @HamHealthSci @ECRI_RESEARCH @McMasteResearch @LabRullo @Balitsky_HemeMD @MyelomaCanada
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@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 #CCTG bit.ly/3OjqGtP
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.@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
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Amazing. Bill, the new lab tech at QLMP is amazing us with his coverslipping skills and tissue-issue knowledge. We are humbled. ⁦@QueensPathology#histologypro
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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…

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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.
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Today we are getting “primed” to be BOND Masters. Thank you to our superb Leica Trainer! @LeicaBio @QueensPathology @CDNCancerTrials @excellirate @queensuResearch @CHI_CIS
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Learning how to use the phenoimager and the science behind the optics and filters. Thanks Ladan for your patience with some of us newbies! @excellirate @AkoyaBio @CDNCancerTrials @QueensPathology
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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
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Thanks to @CDNCancerTrials @excellirate @CHI_CIS our new BOND has arrived and is installed and ready for action!
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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.

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Updated📢 Management of toxicities from #immunotherapy: ESMO Clinical Practice Guideline for diagnosis, treatment & follow-up. W/ recommended assessment & tx algorithms according to grade of toxicity ow.ly/K5nw50LcQyE @HaanenJohn @wick_wolfgang @peters_solange @MarieKostine
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“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. #CGT #CellCAN #strategicforum2022
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You can make CAR-T cells in one day if you wanted to. The technology is here. The current regulatory system will be the barrier. Not the science. China will become the destination center. @NoopurRajeMD @DavidP4AD @kenderian_ss @Rfonsi1 @BloodCancerJnl nature.com/articles/s41408-0…
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