Defeating brain cancer requires a delicate balance. At least that’s how Dr. David Stojdl sees it. On the one hand, Dr. Stojdl is engineering viruses that seek out tumour cells in the brain, infect them and flag them as dangerous — yet don’t infect healthy cells. “Brain tissue is not very amenable to… Read more »
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Dr. Rebecca Auer receives grant from Canadian Cancer Society
News item Today, the Canadian Cancer Society publicly announced its $450,000 Innovation to Impact Grant to one of BioCanRx’s founding investigator, Dr. Rebecca Auer. The grant will support Dr. Auer’s research in investigating whether oncolytic virus vaccines and other immune-boosting therapies can stop cancer from spreading after surgery. Source: http://www.cancer.ca/en/about-us/for-media/media-releases/national/2015/rebecca-auer-innovation-grant/?region=on&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=MediaRelease&utm_content=RebeccaAuer&utm_campaign=Research
