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Childhood Cancer
Achievements
CFRI’s broadly-based, comprehensive program in pediatric oncology research is built on a solid foundation of success.
Achievements include:
- Research grants and funding totaling almost $10 million
- 94 refereed publications
- Three scientists recently recruited to the site
- Several clinicians, with expertise and interest in research, recruited to BC Children's Hospital, an agency of the Provincial Health Services Authority
- 61 fellows, students and other trainees given comprehensive training opportunities in research
- Phase II and III clinical trials undertaken, with over 600 patients currently registered in studies
- On-site, local, provincial, national and international collaborations
- Invitations to address and organize international meetings
- Nine patents written
- Numerous collaborations with industry, particularly in the area of drugs acting on proteins found (by the laboratories here) to be potential targets for therapy in pediatric oncology
- Representation on, and leadership for, numerous international committees involved in articulating strategies for pediatric oncology basic, translational and clinical research
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Last updated:
08/27/2009
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