The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research

Research Grants

May 2002 . November 2002 . May 2003 . November 2003 . May 2004 . May 2005 . November 2005 . May 2006 . November 2006 . May 2007 . November 2007 . November 2008

9th Grant Competition - November, 2006

Principal Investigator Institution Project Type/Title Award*
       
Bouffet, Eric Hospital for Sick Children Phase II study of weekly vinblastine in chemotherapy naïve paediatric patients with progressive/symptomatic low grade gliomas $536,886
Chen, Eric University Health Network Pharmacokinetic and pharmacogenetic determinants of erlotinib toxicity and response $142,874
Coomber,Brenda University of Guelph Disrupting survival pathways for ovarian cancer cells in suspension $232,527
Dekaban, Gregory Robarts Research Institute In vivo MR imaging to assess delivery and efficacy of dendritic cell vaccines $503,836
Diamandis, Eleftherios Mount Sinai Hospital Human kallikrein 11(hK11) - better than PSA as a prostatic biomarker? $354,432
Fleshner, Neil University Health Network Identification and characterization of genetic alterations at the stromal-epithelial interface in prostate cancer $707,607
Hassell, John McMaster University Validation of therapeutic agents affecting Notch signalling in mouse models of breast cancer $561,581
Kavsak, Pete Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation A clinical chemistry approach for identifying biomarkers as surrogate endpoints in therapy directed against chemokine meditated metastasis $400,643
Kerbel, Robert Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Surrogate molecular biomarkers for antiangiogenic receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitory drugs $569,672
Khokha, Rama University Health Network Inhibition of TIMP3 as novel therapeutic approach for breast cancer $614,963
Lala, Peeyush University of Western Ontario COX-2/Her2neu axis in VEGF-C upregulation and breast cancer therapy $625,443
Schimmer, Aaron University Health Network Targeting FLIP for the treatment of malignancy $573,794
Valliant, John McMaster University Molecular imaging agents for breast cancer diagnosis and research $560,926
Vanderhyden, Barbara Ottawa Health Research Institute Mouse models of ovarian cancer $495,656
Yartsev, Viatcheslav London Regional Cancer Program Optimization of the use of CT image-guidance technologies for radiation therapy $626,223

* Includes a value of 30 per cent added for institution overhead.

 

 

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