Congratulations to our 2021 Research Grant Recipients
They are:
Alan Nichol – BC Cancer
“The Relationship between Magnetic Resonance Imaging White Matter Hyperintensities and Cognition after Whole Brain Radiotherapy”
Generously funded by an anonymous research fund.
Rolando Del Maestro – Neurosurgical Simulation and Artificial Intelligence Learning Centre, McGill University Montreal, QC
“A Randomized Controlled Trial to Assess the Efficacy of Expert Benchmark Feedback Systems in Simulated Brain Tumor Resection Training”
Generously funded by an anonymous research fund.
Andrew Beharry – University of Toronto, Mississauga, ON
“Predicting Temozolomide Resistance in Glioblastoma using an Activitybased Fluorescent chemosensor for MGMT”
Generously funded by the DUNN with Cancer Research Fund.
Mary Jane Lim-Fat – Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON
“Assessing molecular, clinical and imaging predictors of response, quality of life measures and neurocognitive outcomes in young patients with low grade glioma undergoing multimodality therapy”
Funded through the generosity of donors.
Daniel Schramek – Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Toronto, ON
“Elucidating the genes that trigger malignant progression of low-grade glioma to lethal glioblastoma”
Generously funded by an anonymous research fund.
Chantel Cacciotti – London Health Sciences Centre- Children’s Hospital, London, ON
“Pediatric Bithalamic Glioma: A comprehensive clinical, radiological, pathological and molecular characterization”
Funded through the generosity of donors.