Peter Siegel – 2024 Feature Grant Recipient Featured Image

Peter Siegel – 2024 Feature Grant Recipient

We hope this research will lead to the initiation of new clinical trials to optimize and expand the subset of patients with brain metastases who will derive the greatest clinical benefit from this therapy.

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Patrick Ang – 2024 Studentship Recipient Featured Image

Patrick Ang – 2024 Studentship Recipient

Thank you to the BTFC and Taite Boomer Foundation for their endearing dedication and incredible support they provide to patients and brain cancer research. None of our work would be possible without this community’s generosity.

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David Shultz – 2023 Feature Grant Recipient Featured Image

David Shultz – 2023 Feature Grant Recipient

This award will allow our research team to better understand how brain metastases affect our patients’ ability to live meaningful and productive lives. We have the opportunity to study in great detail the unique challenges faced our patients and the factors that most strongly contribute to their psychological and functional well-being.

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Jakob Magolan – 2022 Research Grant Recipient Featured Image

Jakob Magolan – 2022 Research Grant Recipient

This generous award from the Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada will support an innovative therapeutic development program underway in the Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster University. In partnership with Prof. Sheila Singh and her team, we working to develop a new class of cancer therapies that can intercept and prevent the metastasis of cancers to the brain from other primary sites.

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Ekaterina Tchistiakova and Nicolas Ploquin – 2022 Research Grant Recipients Featured Image

Ekaterina Tchistiakova and Nicolas Ploquin – 2022 Research Grant Recipients

Radiosurgery is one of the common treatment options for patients with brain metastases. It has several benefits over other treatment options including reduced side effects, it’s non-invasive nature and improved quality of life especially when administered early.

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Daniel Mobilio – 2022 Studentship Recipient Featured Image

Daniel Mobilio – 2022 Studentship Recipient

As someone who has been directly affected by brain tumours, it is my greatest honour to be awarded the Brain Tumour Research Studentship.

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Arun Parmar – 2020 Studentship Recipient Featured Image

Arun Parmar – 2020 Studentship Recipient

Arun Parmar is entering his fourth year of Health Sciences at McMaster University. What does receiving this award mean to […]

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Peter Liu – 2020 Studentship Recipient Featured Image

Peter Liu – 2020 Studentship Recipient

Peter Liu is a second-year Medical Sciences student at Western University in London, Ontario. What are you studying/specializing in? I […]

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