The BioCanRx network is changing the face of cancer treatment
BioCanRx’s vision is to cure patients and enhance the quality of life of those living with cancer. We will do this by supporting world-class research in the area of immune oncology, and by accelerating to the clinic the most promising cancer immunotherapies designed to save lives and enable a better quality of life. Through an innovative, collaborative funding process BioCanRx is becoming a world-leader in the translation, manufacture and adoption of leading edge cancer immunotherapy treatments for the benefit of cancer patients.
Giving melanoma the one-two punch
Melanoma is a much more serious cancer, harder to treat and tends to progress more quickly. In 2017 alone, 7,300 people in Canada were diagnosed with melanoma; 1,240 died from it.
World Cancer Day 2019
On February 4th, BioCanRx is proud to take part in this global initiative aimed at making a commitment to a world without cancer. Across the country, the BioCanRx network is accelerating to the clinic Canada’s most promising and innovative cancer immunotherapies designed to save lives and enable a better quality of life.
Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match…
Jonathan Bramson’s lab at McMaster University had developed a new technology to produce immune cells that will attack multiple myeloma cells. Jean-Sébastien Delisle’s lab at the Université de Montréal had novel methods and capacity to manufacture human immune cells that target cancer cells and that persist for a long time in the body, providing sustained anti-cancer activity.
