Dr. Miranda Fidler-Benaoudia was awarded the Department of Oncology’s Young Investigator Award for 2020 at this year’s virtual event held on April 22nd, 2021. Miranda’s outstanding achievements in the first two years of her career with CEPR/Department of Oncology were recognized. She has rapidly established a strong program of research in childhood/adolescent and young adult…
Dr. Lin Yang is leading a VPR Catalyst Grant (UCalgary) along with her co-investigators Drs Colleen Cuthbert, Tarek Bismar and Kevin Martell that is a knowledge survey regarding an exercise intervention for prostate cancer men managed by active surveillance. This six-month project funded at $15,265 will inform further research on this topic in subsequent grants.…
Dr. Cheryl Peters is leading a SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant along with Alison Palmer (CAREX Canada), Gordon Pennycook (URegina) and Elizabeth Holmes (Canadian Cancer Society who is the project partner). The team members who worked on the grant and will be engaged in the research include Ela Rydz and Sajjad Fazel. The grant is entitled…
Drs Miranda Fidler-Benaoudia and Christine Friedenreich are leading a project entitled “AYA-PACT: Adolescents and Young Adults be-coming Physically Active after Cancer Trial” that has been funded for five years for $952,425 as a CIHR Project Grant. The aim of this trial is to determine if a home-based, mobile health (mHealth) physical activity intervention can increase…
Dr. Cheryl Peters, along with her colleagues Drs Marie-Élise Parent, Mieke Koehoorn and Paul Demers, is leading a research project entitled “The impact of sex and gender in occupational disease prevention” that has been funded for three years for $360,000 as a CIHR project grant. The aim of this study is to improve systems that…
Dr. Karen Kopciuk, along with Drs Angeline Letendre and Huiming Yang and Ms Reagan Bartel, is leading a research project entitled “Nishtohtamihk li kaansyr (Understanding Cancer): Cancer Screening, Outcomes and Experiences among Métis People in Alberta” that has received a one-year, $100,000 bridge grant through a priority announcement by the CIHR Institute of Indigenous Peoples’…