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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.

Friday, December 11, 2009
A paper entitled "identification of sister chromatids by DNA template strand sequences" by Dr. Ester Falconer, Dr. Peter Lansdorp, et al. has been accepted for publishing on Nature. It is now been scheduled for Advance Online Publication on www.nature.com/nature on 16 December at 1800 London time / 1300 US Eastern time.

Monday, September 14, 2009
Representing the Terry Fox Laboratory, Dr. Andrew Weng, participated and led the 2009 Terry Fox Run in Garry Point Park, Richmond on Sep 13th, an event raised over $10,000 for cancer research.

Monday, June 29, 2009
Congratulations to Dr. Dixie Mager who has been awarded a 5-year research grant entitled "Effects of transposable elements on mammalian genomes" by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Congratulations to Dr. Xiaoyan Jiang who has been awarded a research grant entitled "Targeting CML stem cells by combination therapy of ABL and JAK2 inhibitors" by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Congratulations to Dr. Donna Hogge who received the Martin M. Hoffman Award for Excellence in Research 2008-2009 at the Department of Medicine's Awards night.

Tuesday, April 28
Congratulations to Maisam Makarem (Eaves Lab) has been awarded a Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarships (CGS) Doctoral Award by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

Monday, April 27
Congratulations to Dr. Xiaoyan Jiang, who has been promoted to Associate Professor, Medical Genetics, UBC.

Monday, April 20
Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Hoodless who has been awarded a three-year grant-in-aid entitled "Valve formation in the mouse atrioventricular canal" by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of BC and Yukon.

Wednesday, April 8
Congratulations to Ben Lai (Mager Lab) who has been awarded a 2-year NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS).

Monday, April 6
Dr. David Kent successfully defended his PhD thesis – Congratulations!!

Wednesday, March 25
Congratulations to Dr. Ryan Brinkman who has been awarded a one-year grant entitled "Statistical analysis of clinical lymphoma data for automated quality assurance of diagnosis and biomarker identification" by CIHR.

Friday, March 13
Congratulations to Katherine Miceli (Mager lab) who has been awarded a University Graduate Fellowship from UBC.

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What's going on this week?

WIP - Friday Feb 12, at 4:00pm
by Dr. Alireza Khodabakhshi (Brinkman Lab)

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