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MRI Awards Support to UHN Researchers
MRI Awards Support to UHN ResearchersJuly 2009
MRI Awards Support to UHN Researchers
UHN congratulates OCI’s Drs. Ming-Sound Tsao and Igor Jurisica for being awarded funding in Round 3 of the Ministry of Research and Innovation’s (MRI) Ontario Research Fund Research Excellence (ORF-RE) program. Their proposal entitled “Integrated Molecular Pathology of Targeted Cancer Therapy in Lung Cancer”, includes team members Drs. Frances Shepherd, Geoffrey Liu, Mike Moran and Thomas Kislinger.
The project will receive upwards of $4.6M to develop unique, patient-derived xenograft models of lung cancer. It will also help develop a robust informatics platform to comprehensively define the molecular genetic abnormalities and critical pathways in the disease. It is anticipated that this innovative project will help overcome current challenges in developing effective therapies for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).