Congratulations to the Institute of Cancer Research Spring 2025 Project Grant Priority Announcement grantees!
The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) congratulates our research community members funded through our Spring 2025 Project Grant Priority Announcements! We are pleased to be funding the following highly-rated projects in the Spring 2025 Project Grant competition that were relevant to ICR's mandate and/or new research priority areas:
Priority Announcement: Breast Cancer Prevention and Early Detection
- Mohammad Reza Akbari, Women's College Hospital
Project title: Establishing a Global Cohort to Investigate ATRIP-Associated Cancer Risk and Outcomes - Vuk Stambolic, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project title: Influence of obesity-related metabolic factors on breast cancer
Priority Announcement: Breast Cancer Research
- Costin N Antonescu, Toronto Metropolitan University
Project title: Spatial control of PI3K-Akt signaling within clathrin signalosomes
Priority Announcement: Breast Cancer Survivorship
- Locke S Davenport Huyer, Dalhousie University
Project title: Immunomodulatory Polymer Coatings to Reduce Silicone Breast Implant Pathological Fibrosis - Krishna K Singh and David A Hess, Western University
Project title: Novel Mechanisms in Doxorubicin-induced Cardiomyopathy
Priority Announcement: Cancer Prevention and/or Early Detection of Cancer
- Anne-Claude Gingras and Daniel Schramek, Sinai Health System
Project title: Advancing lung cancer biology through integrated spatial proteomics and in vivo CRISPR screening - Erin P Hobin and Kimberly M Corace, Public Health Ontario
Project title: Effectiveness of alcohol warning labels on consumer knowledge and perceptions of alcohol health risks and on alcohol use: a randomized field experiment to inform alcohol labelling policy
Priority Announcement: Cancer Survivorship
- Emerson Krock, McGill University
Project title: Regulation of chemotherapy-induced pain by extracellular matrix remodelling in sensory ganglia - Fabio M Rossi, University of British Columbia
Project title: Investigating the role of muscle stromal cells in pancreatic cancer cachexia and associated myosteatosis
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