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The mission of the Terry Fox Laboratory is to fuel major improvements in cancer outcomes through basic and translational research with a current focus on cancer stem cells.

Growing evidence indicates that cancer stem cells are often rare, difficult to study and likely heterogeneous in their properties and composition, even within a single tumour. These issues pose significant challenges to the field of cancer research and highlight the importance of an interdisciplinary approach to effectively tackle many basic unknowns that underpin the cancer stem cell problem and to test new leads in a translational pipeline.

 

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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Congratulations to Christopher Jenkins (Weng Lab) who was recently awarded a 2-year CIHR Doctoral Award - Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship.

Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Congratulations to Dr. Rita Rebollo (Mager Lab) who was awarded a CIHR postdoctoral fellowship through a priority Epigenetics competition.

Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Congratulations to StemCell Technologies for receiving the 2013 LifeSciences British Columbia Award for the Mecdical Technology Compnay of the Year.

Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Congratulations to Dr. Sam Lee (Hoodless Lab) who successfully defended his PhD thesis in Genetics.

Friday, November 9, 2012
Congratulations to Dr. Tim Halim (Takei Lab) who successfully defended his PhD thesis in Genetics.

Thursday, Oct 11, 2012
A press release event was held in Ottawa this morning to announce the award of $5.9 million to Drs. Keith Humphries, Connie Eaves, Andrew Weng, Aly Karsan, and Martin Hirst for their research in finding new ways to treat aggressive form of leukemia. The funds were raised by Terry Fox Foundation through its annual Terry Fox community and school runs.

Friday, Sep 28, 2012
Dr. Amanda Kotzer, the Research Projects Lead of the Terry Fox Laboratory, gave a speech about Terry Fox and our research of leukemia at the Trudor Elementary School and led the Terry Fox Run

Friday, July 27, 2012
Congratulations to Dr. Andrew Weng who has been promoted to Associate Professor in Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, UBC.


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