Tag: Clinical research

John Webb

Senior Project Leader, Deeley Research Centre, BC Cancer (Retired)   Cancers of Interest Blood Cancer, Breast Cancer, Cervical Cancer, Endometrial Cancer, Ovarian Cancer   Research and clinical approaches Basic Research, Disease Models, Molecular and Cellular Biology   Projects at BioCanRx Clinical Trial Enabling Studies for Multi-targeted Chimeric Antigen Receptor Therapeutics for the Treatment of B-Cell… Read more »

Simon Turcotte

Associate professor, Department of surgery, Université de Montréal; Physician, Hepatopancreatobiliary and liver transplantation division, CHUM; Co-director, CHUM hepatopancreatobiliary cancer clinical database and biological specimen repository Roger-Des-Groseillers chair in hepatobiliary and pancreatic oncological surgery, Université de Montréal   Full Biography   Cancers of Interest Liver, Pancreas, Melanoma   Research and clinical approaches Characterization of immune recognition… Read more »

Kednapa Thavorn

Senior Scientist, The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute   Full Biography   Cancers of Interest Blood Cancer, Breast Cancer   Research and clinical approaches Clinical Research, Health Economics, Health Services Research, Health Technology, Systematic Reviews, Transplantation, Gene Therapy   Projects at BioCanRx Using real-world data and iterative economic evaluation to prioritize resource allocation for care and… Read more »

David Szwajcer

Assistant Professor, Max Rady College of Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Manitoba; Program Director, Manitoba Blood and Marrow Transplant Medical Director, Manitoba Advanced Cell and Tissue Therapy Laboratory   Full Biography   Cancers of Interest Blood   Research and clinical approaches Stem Cells

Denis Claude Roy

Director of the Cellular Therapy Laboratory; Scientific Director of the Centre de recherche Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont Full Professor, Université de Montréal Adjunct professor, McGill University   Full Biography   Cancers of Interest Blood cancers: leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, etc.   Research Interests and Clinical Approach Immunotherapy Immunotolerance   Projects at BioCanRx An Interventional, Open-label, Non-randomized Dose-escalation Phase… Read more »

Brad Nelson

Scientific Co-Director, BC Cancer Immunotherapy Program (Deeley Research Centre) Professor of Biochemistry/Microbiology, University of Victoria Professor of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia   Full Biography   Projects at BioCanRx Enabling a Phase I/II Multicenter Clinical Trial of a Novel Single Domain (sd)CD-22-specific Camelid-derived Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-cell Therapy   Interrogation of Biomarkers in… Read more »

Megan Levings

Investigator, BC Children’s Hospital (Lead, Childhood Diseases Research Theme) Professor, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia   Full Biography   Cancers of Interest Blood   Research Interests and Clinical Approach Cell Therapy Transplantation   (https://www.bcchr.ca/levingslab)   Projects at BioCanRx Garbage to Gold: expansion of Therapeutic Regulatory T Cells from discarded thymus… Read more »

Manoj Lalu

Associate Scientist, Clinical Epidemiology Program Ottawa Hospital Research Institute Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine The University of Ottawa   Full Biography   Cancers of Interest Blood Other   Projects at BioCanRx Making Patient Partnerships A Reality in Very Early Phase Clinical Trials (MARVEL): Development of a Patient Engagement Platform   IMPROVING THE… Read more »

Aly-Khan Lalani

Assistant Professor, Oncology, McMaster University   Full Biography   Cancers of Interest Bladder Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumours (GIST) Genitourinary Kidney Prostate Soft Tissue Sarcoma Testicular   Projects at BioCanRx   Phase II CYTOSHRINK Trial: Cytoreductive Stereotactic Hypofractionated Radiotherapy with Combination Ipilimumab and Nivolumab for Metastatic Kidney Cancer

Jonathan Kimmelman

Director, Biomedical Ethics Unit, Department of Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University   Full Biography   Cancers of Interest Blood Breast Colorectal   Research and clinical approaches Translation research Biomarkers Clinical Research Ethics   Projects at BioCanRx IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF JUDGEMENT IN CANCER THERAPEUTICS DEVELOPMENT   Recent Articles BioCanRx and Partners New Project Funding… Read more »