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The mission of the Terry Fox Laboratory is to fuel major improvements in cancer outcomes through basic and translational research with a current focus on cancer stem cells.

Growing evidence indicates that cancer stem cells are often rare, difficult to study and likely heterogeneous in their properties and composition, even within a single tumour. These issues pose significant challenges to the field of cancer research and highlight the importance of an interdisciplinary approach to effectively tackle many basic unknowns that underpin the cancer stem cell problem and to test new leads in a translational pipeline.

Thursday, July 22, 2010
Congratulations to Courteney Lai (Humphries Lab) and Long Nguyen (Eaves lab) who have been awarded Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarships (CGS) Master's Award by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

Monday, June 28, 2010
Congratulations to Dr. Peter Lansdorp who has just been awarded a 4-year research grant entitled "Chromatin maintenance and sister chromatid differentiation" by NIH.

Friday, June 25, 2010
Dr. Richard Keith Humphries has been appointed the new Director of the Terry Fox Laboratory, effective July 1st, 2010. Please join us in welcoming Keith into his new position.

Thursday, June 24, 2010
Congratulations to Dr. Ryan Brinkman who has been promoted to Associate Professor in Medical Genetics, UBC

Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Congratulations to Dr. R. Keith Humphries who has recently been awarded a 2-year research grant entitled "Functional validation of EZH2 Tyr641 mutationsi n lymphomagenesis" by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada.

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What's going on this week?

WIP - to resume on
Thursday, September 9 by Julie Brind'Amour (Lansdorp lab)

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