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Dr. Christine Friedenreich announced that she will be stepping back from her role as Scientific Director of CEPR. She will be transitioning into a casual role in order to stay in touch with her research projects, but her leadership position will be filled by someone else. She will be greatly missed, but we wish her…
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…
We welcome Yun Lee who starts in March 2022 as a Research Associate working with Dr. Lin Yang on implementation science projects in cancer prevention and prehabilitation. Yun is a dietician who obtained her Master of Science degree from the Faculty of Kinesiology at the University of Calgary, concentrating on nutrition, metabolism, and genetics. Her…
A major milestone was reached in December 2022 when PCL Construction officially handed the completed building over to AHS! AHS has now started moving equipment and staff into the centre in preparation for opening to the public in early 2024. There are currently approximately 100 AHS staff members working in the new cancer centre, with…
Dr. Lin Yang has hired two new casual staff members through U of C. Inshirah Takrouri will be working on the design aspects of the RiskDialogue project, and Nandi Nandi will be working on the PEAK-RP qualitative data. Welcome Inshirah and Nandi!