The University of Calgary, Arnie Charbonneau Cancer Intitute has set up a website with details of all of the recently funded CIHR grants at: https://charbonneau.ucalgary.ca/explore-institute/featured-news/congratulations-our-investigators-who-championed-and-contributed-successful-cihr-2022-project-grants
Drs. Christine Friedenreich and Lin Yang (co PIs) and the AMBER co-investigators (Drs. Kerry Courneya, Jeff Val-lance, Margie McNeely, Nicole Culos-Reed, Karen Kopciuk, Darren Brenner, Jamie Benham) received a one-year $100K breast cancer priority grant from the CIHR-Institute of Cancer Research for their on-going AMBER cohort study. Their submission to the fall CIHR project grant…
Drs. Colleen Cuthbert and Lin Yang (co-PIs) and their co-investigators (Drs. Darren Brenner, Winson Cheung, Nicole Culos-Reed, Christie Farrer, Safiya Karim, Dylan O’Sullivan, Patricia Tang) received a one-year $100K patient-oriented research priority grant from CIHR for the CRC-Tai Chi trial. Their submission to the fall CIHR project grant competition just missed the funding cut-off and…
Congratulations to Drs. Darren Brenner, Winson Cheung, Dylan O’Sullivan and their colleagues for their success at the fall 2022 CIHR project grant competition. Their three-year grant entitled “Improving Patient Outcomes among Early-Age-At-Onset Colorectal Cancer Patients using Real-World Date (the Early Study)” was funded $376,380 and ranked 3/29 grants on the CIHR health services research grant…
Congratulations to Dr. Christine Friedenreich who was recognized at the Cumming School of Medicine Celebration of Excellence event for her Rosalind E. Franklin Award for Women in Science.
Congratulations to Dr. Miranda Fidler-Benaoudia who is the co-winner of the Cancers 2022 Young Investigator Award. Dr. Fidler-Benaoudia has been recognized for her significant contributions to cancer research focused on adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer survivors. This award is an international one that is given by the journal Cancers to two young investigators anywhere…