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Two BC Cancer research teams are 2024 recipients of the Terry Fox New Frontiers Program Project Grants (PPG), receiving new and renewal funding to advance cancer research and improve treatments. 

Project: Integrated Immunotherapy for Ovarian Cancer

One of this year’s newly funded teams is based in Victoria and led by Dr. Brad Nelson. 

Dr. Nelson, a BC Cancer Research Institute distinguished scientist and director of the Deeley Research Centre, will lead a team studying the immune system to improve treatments for high-grade serous ovarian cancer. 

Four out of five children diagnosed with cancer survive over the long term after treatment, but for 20 per cent of them, standard treatment is not enough. To improve outcomes for these kids, researchers at the Michael Cuccione Childhood Cancer Research Program at BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute (BCCHR) have been working for over a decade on the BC Pediatric Personalized OncoGenomics (PedsPOG) study, using genomics to identify treatments specific to an individual child’s cancer.

BC Cancer 2024 Summer Research Studentship competition, sponsored by the BC Cancer Foundation, supports senior undergraduate university students and/or junior medical or dental students seeking hands-on training in cancer research in British Columbia. These summer studentships may address any discipline of cancer research including clinical, translational, basic, behavioural and population research areas.

The 2024 awardees are:

The GSC is proud to have been a part of a collaborative and interdisciplinary team on a mission to improve pediatric cancer treatment.

Researchers at the BC Cancer Research Institute have made an advancement in genetic testing that allows for more accurate prediction of which parent’s genes led to an individual’s increased cancer risk. This improves the efficiency of familial testing strategies and could eliminate concern for patients at high risk of cancer caused by genes inherited from a parent.

Save the date – on October 22^nd the GSC will be hosting our first-ever collaborator forum! Please join us for this one-day conference, hear exciting talks from genomics researchers, and engage with the local scientific community and our technology sponsors: Illumina, Oxford Nanopore and PacBio. Registration opening early September!

Save the date – on October 22^nd the GSC will be hosting our first-ever collaborator forum! Please join us for this one-day conference, hear exciting talks from genomics researchers, and engage with the local scientific community and our technology sponsors: Illumina, Oxford Nanopore and PacBio. Registration opening early September!