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Shelley Warner: My cancer story, is not a death sentence

We would like you to meet Shelley Warner. Over the next month’s Shelley will be sharing a window in to her cancer story with us. As an introduction to her

Photoacoustic Imaging Research

Hello, my name is Lawrence Yip, and I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Medical Biophysics at Western University. I work at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Dr. Jeff

BCSC thanks all our volunteers!

As we come to the end of the 2017, National Volunteer week we would to thank all our volunteers for helping make an important positive impact on life-saving breast cancer

Mark and Rebecca’s Mother’s Day Walk Story – UpDate

On National Volunteer Week 2017 we are very excited to feature a post from one of our Ottawa volunteers, Mark and Rebecca Fillier. They have sent us a recent update

Developing a molecular imaging technique using MRI

Hello, My name is Yonathan Araya, I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Medical Biophysics at Western University. I work in the Imaging Research Laboratories at Robarts Research

MRI cell tracking for breast cancer

Hi, My name is Ashley Makela and I am a PhD candidate in the department of Medical Biophysics at Western University. I am working at Robarts Research Institute in Dr.

Targeting tumours the FAST way

Hello! We are Brent Johnston and Roy Duncan, Professors in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at Dalhousie University. We have received funding from the Breast Cancer Society of Canada

Towards breast cancer detection with nanoprobes

Greetings! My name is Antonio Benayas. As some of you can perhaps remember from a previous post , I am a postdoc at Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, working

Receptor for Hyaluronan-Mediated Motility or RHAMM

Hi everyone! My name is Alexandra Hauser-Kawaguchi and I’m a PhD candidate in the Department of Chemistry at Western University. I work in Dr. Len Luyt’s lab at London Health

Understanding how the estrogen receptor impacts breast cancer

Hello! My name is Bart Kolendowski and I’m a PhD candidate in the Department of Biochemistry at Western University. I work in Dr. Joe Torchia’s lab located at London Regional

What’s my Breast Cancer Story?

Antoine Abugaber of the Breast Cancer Society of Canada shares his story As a cancer researcher and an international renowned artist, I want to be able to one day say

Imaging biomarkers in treatment of breast cancer with high-dose radiation therapy

My name is Matthew Mouawad. I am a third-year PhD student in the department of Medical Biophysics at Western University working under the supervision of Drs. Stewart Gaede and Neil

New Directors Join Breast Cancer Society of Canada

Toronto, ON (January 11, 2017) ~ The Breast Cancer Society of Canada (BCSC), the mission of which is to save lives through breast cancer research, recently elected six new directors

Retinoic Acid maybe an effective therapy

I am Dr. Paola Marcato, Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology at Dalhousie University. the Canadian Breast Cancer Society, the Beatrice Hunter Cancer Research Institute and the QEII Foundation,

A Student Exchange Program: Understanding breast cancer using laboratory models

Hello! My name is Vasudeva Bhat, PhD candidate in the Department of Immunology, under the guidance of Dr. Afshin Raouf at Regenerative Medicine Program/Cancercare Manitoba Our lab is interested in

3rd Biennial International Cancer Research Conference

Hi all! My name is Milica Krstic and I am a PhD student within the department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Western University. I work in Dr. Ann Chambers’

Alyssa, a reason to give!

On November 29th, The Breast Cancer Society of Canada will partner with the Giving Tuesday Canada initiative to encourage Canadians across the country to fund life-saving breast cancer research. Alyssa

Where are they now? Former TBCRU Trainee Donna Murrell

We thought it would be interesting to track the career development of trainees previously supported by studentships from Translational Breast Cancer Research Unit (TBCRU) in London. Hello! My name is

The Pamela Greenaway-Kohlmeier Translational Breast Cancer Research Unit in London announces 13 scholarship awards for 2016-2017

  We’re pleased to announce 13 new graduate student scholarships at Western University for the 2016-2017 academic year. These awards are supported by the Breast Cancer Society of Canada’s very

An Invasive Tumour Cell Subpopulation as a Therapeutic Target in Breast Cancer

My name is Tahereh Vakili (pictured right) and I’m a Master’s student in the Department of Biochemistry a Western University. I work under the supervision of Dr. Eva Turley (pictured

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