Tag: Ovarian cancer

Scott McComb

Research Officer, National Research Council; Adjunct Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology, University of Ottawa   Full Biography   Cancers of Interest Blood Colorectal Lung Ovarian   Projects at BioCanRx Clinical Trial Enabling Studies for Multi-targeted Chimeric Antigen Receptor Therapeutics for the Treatment of B-Cell Malignancies

Steven Jones

Canada Research Chair in Computational Genomics, University of British Columbia Professor, Medical Genetics/ Genetics Graduate Program, University of British Columbia Director Bioinformatics, Genome BC Bioinformatics Platform, Genome BC Founding Director, CIHR/MSFHR Bioinformatics Training Program Director, Bioinformatics Graduate Program, University of British Columbia   Full Biography   Cancers of Interest Bladder, Blood, Bone, Brain, Breast, Cervical,… Read more »

Carolina Ilkow

Senior Scientist, Cancer Therapeutics Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute Associate Professor, University of Ottawa   Full Biography   Cancers of Interest Breast Cervical Colorectal Gynecologic Head and Neck Ovarian Pancreatic   Projects at BioCanRx Development of a Virally Programmed Exosome-based Cancer Vaccine Platform

Naoto Hirano

Senior Scientist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre   Full Biography   Cancers of Interest Blood, Breast, Lung, Ovarian, Pancreatic, Prostate, Skin, Soft Tissue Sarcoma   Research Interests and Clinical Approach Dr. Hirano’s research team is particularly interested in understanding how the interactions between T cells and antigen-presenting cells affect priming, expansion, persistence and differentiation of T… Read more »

Jean-Simon Diallo

Senior Scientist, Cancer Therapeutics Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute Associate Scientist, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa   Full Biography   Cancers of Interest Sarcoma Prostate Breast   Research Interests and Clinical Approach Oncolytic Virotherapy Viral sensitizers Combination Immunotherapy   Projects at BioCanRx Development of Supporting Analytical Assays and Regulatory Compliance Package for Viral Sensitizer… Read more »

Marcus Butler

Clinician Investigator, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre   Full Biography   Cancers of Interest Bladder Cervical Esophageal Gastric Gynecologic Ovarian Pancreatic Skin   Research Interests and Clinical Approach Clinical trials research focuses on adoptive immunotherapy for multiple different solid tumor types   Projects at BioCanRx   Phase Ib trial of pembrolizumab administered following adoptive cell therapy-… Read more »

Rebecca Auer

Senior Scientist, Cancer Therapeutics Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute Professor, Department of Surgery and Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa Surgical Oncologist, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, Immunology & Microbiology, The Ottawa Hospital Tier 2 Clinical Research Chair, Perioperative Cancer Therapeutics, University of Ottawa Scientific Director, Cancer Therapeutics… Read more »

New treatment approaches for a stubborn cancer

by: Heather Blumenthal   Throughout the world, ovarian cancer researchers using mouse models to further their research on the origins, development or treatment of the cancer can thank Ottawa researcher Dr. Barbara Vanderhyden for making their research possible.   An ovarian cancer researcher for more than a quarter century, and currently the inaugural holder of… Read more »