 Michael Adams, Department Head |
| Congratulations!! Dr. Andrew Craig has been selected as this year's recipient of the Canadain Cancer Society Young Investigator Award for excellence in cancer research. The honour is awarded each year by the National Council of the Canadian Cancer Society to an outstanding young investigator in biomedical or translational cancer research, and he was unanimously recommended by the ACOR review committee to be the 2011 recipient. Dr. Craig will receive $1000 as a personal prize, and $20,000 to be used towards his research program. posted Feb. 22/12 *********************************************************************************************************************************************** Congratulations to DBMS faculty in the recent CIHR grant competition. Andrew Craig was awarded a 5-year operating grant ('Roles of F-BAR proteins in lung cancer progression and metastases') totalling $706,058 Charles Graham was awarded two 5-year operating grants ('Mechanisms of hypoxia-induced immune escape in cancer and their regulation by nitric oxide' and 'Role of maternal inflammation in the pathophysiology of intrauterine growth restriction and pre-eclampsia') totalling $1,042,880 Kanji Nakatsu was awarded a 5-year operating grant ('Design of selective heme oxygenase-2 inhibitors and activators- developing pharmacological tools') totalling $582,932. Eric Dumont was awarded a 5-year operating grant ('Neural mechanisms of compulsive drug use: a multi-approach study of the Bed nucleus of the Stria Terminalis') totalling $517,834. posted Feb 1/12 ********************************************************************************************************************************************** |
