The Marathon of Hope Most cancers Centres Community (MOHCCN) introduced final month that 4 new analysis groups will obtain funding by way of its Pan-Canadian Initiatives program, which unites researchers and clinicians from a number of provinces to work on initiatives that speed up precision medication for most cancers in Canada. The researchers from the Analysis Institute of the McGill College Well being Centre (RI-MUHC) funded on this spherical are concerned in three initiatives that concentrate on lung, oral and prostate cancers.
This information adopted the announcement in March of MOHCCN funding for initiatives led by Morag Park, PhD, and George Zogopoulos, MD, PhD, two researchers from the RI-MUHC and Rosalind and Morris Goodman Most cancers Institute. Congratulations to the three further RI-MUHC groups under!
Mission 1 – Neoadjuvant precision remedy for non-small cell lung most cancers: A platform for discovery
Up to now decade, immunotherapy and different genetically decided precision therapies have revolutionized lung most cancers care. As an illustration, a brand new therapy that mixes immunotherapy with chemotherapy earlier than surgical procedure for sufferers with resectable lung most cancers has been established as new commonplace of care throughout Canada, after it was discovered that this mix eliminates all lung most cancers cells earlier than surgical procedure in a single quarter of sufferers. However whereas these responses are extraordinarily promising, in addition they imply that three quarters of sufferers handled with chemotherapy and immunotherapy earlier than surgical procedure don’t fully reply to the therapy.
A crew led by Dr. Jonathan Spicer, a scientist within the Most cancers Analysis Program on the RI-MUHC, is getting down to higher perceive why this happens. Their targets are to find methods to foretell which sufferers are most definitely to profit from these new precision therapies and the way greatest to deal with those that don’t. “Our aim is to know which medicines are greatest suited to every affected person,” says Dr. Spicer. “We’re utilizing the distinctive alternative to know precisely how these therapies work in responders and non-responders by taking a deep dive into the ensuing most cancers genetics and tumour immune setting after surgical resection.”
Study extra about this undertaking on the MOHCCN web site.
Mission 2 – A multi-pronged method to speed up precision medication for prostate most cancers in Canada
A multi-disciplinary crew of clinicians and researchers from three establishments in Quebec, together with co-lead researchers Simone Chevalier, PhD, and Dr. Armen Aprikian, each senior scientists within the Most cancers Analysis Program on the RI-MUHC, are uniting to speed up precision medication for sufferers with prostate most cancers.
The crew will deploy a multi-pronged method to raised perceive why some prostate most cancers sufferers reply to therapy and others don’t, with the aim of creating checks that predict who’s at a larger danger of affected by illness development and create interventions to cease this from occurring.
“This undertaking represents a big step ahead in understanding and combating deadly prostate most cancers,” says Chevalier. “By harnessing cutting-edge molecular and imaging strategies, we purpose to remodel how we diagnose and deal with this complicated illness.”
Study extra about this undertaking on the MOHCCN web site.
Mission 3: Canadian Head And Neck most cancers GEnomic (CHANGE) Collaborative
Dr. Nader Sadeghi, senior scientist within the Most cancers Analysis Program on the RI-MUHC, is a part of a multi-disciplinary group of head and neck most cancers consultants from throughout the nation are uniting underneath a newly fashioned crew—the Canadian Head And Neck most cancers GEnomic (CHANGE) Collaborative. Underneath the course of Dr. Pinaki Bose on the College of Calgary,the crew will work collectively to raised perceive the genomic underpinnings of oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) recurrence, with the aim of arising with higher methods to foretell whose most cancers is extra more likely to recur after therapy and discover methods to keep away from recurrence.
Study extra about this undertaking on the MOHCCN web site.
Every undertaking lasts three years. Of their first yr, the teams will obtain a complete of $819,000 from the Community, with further funds from companion establishments including as much as a complete funding of $3,113,918. Additional funding can be decided primarily based on the variety of circumstances that every group is ready to contribute to the MOHCCN Gold Cohort.
To be taught extra about this announcement, learn the MOHCCN press launch.
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Two RI-MUHC researchers obtain funding from the Marathon of Hope Most cancers Centres Community (RI-MUHC)
RI-MUHC researchers work to speed up precision medication for most cancers in Canada (MUHC)
