Past recipients of the ICR Travel Award Program
Competition Dates:
| September 2011 Competition | |||
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| Recipient | Affiliation | Project | Conference |
| M.Sc. Students | |||
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Del Bel, Lauren |
University of Toronto | Investigating the Roles of Lipids, Lipid Kinases and their Effectors in Growth Control in Drosophila melanogaster | The Drosophila Research Conference, Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, Chigago, IL, March 7-11, 2012 |
| Negandhi, Amit | Memorial University of Newfoundland | The Glu429Ala polymorphism in the MTHFR gene is an independent prognostic marker in colorectal cancer: Analysis of two independent cohorts from Newfoundland | The Canadian Cancer Research Conference, Toronto, Ontario, November 27-30, 2011 |
| Zeglinski, Matthew | University of Manitoba | Disruption of nitric oxide synthase 3 potentiates cardiac dysfunction and reduces survival in Doxorubicin and Trastuzumab mediated cardiomyopathy | American Heart association Conference, Orlando, Florida, USA, December 16, 2011 |
| Ph.D. Students | |||
| CAO, Yinuo | University of Toronto | Effects of the Epstein-Barr Virus EBNA1 Protein on the Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Nuclear Proteome | 2nd ASM Conference on Manipulation of Nuclear Processes by DNA Viruses, La Fonda on the Plaza, Santa Fe, New Mexico (USA), October 23-26, 2011 |
| Mack, Stephen | Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto) | Delineation of two clinically and molecularly distinct subgroups of posterior fossa ependymoma | American Association for Cancer Research (AACR): Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 31, 2012 |
| Smith, Kerri | Memorial University of Newfoundland | A candidate gene short list for a granulosa cell tumour susceptibility gene (Gct1) in a spontaneous mouse model of early-onset tumourigenesis | The Canadian Cancer Research Conference, Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, Toronto, Ontario, November 27-30, 2011 |
| Rafiei, Shahrzad | McGill University | Soluble Factors Produced by Prostate Cancer Cells Induce Osteoclast Form | 11th International Conference on Cancer-Induced Bone Disease (CIBD), Chicago, IL, November 30, 2011 |
| Di Cresce, Christine | University of Western Ontario | Combining Small Interfering RNAs Targeting Thymidylate Synthase and Thymidine Kinase 1 or 2 Sensitizes Human Tumour Cells to 5FUdR and Pemetrexed | AACR-NCI-EORTC Molectular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics, Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA, USA, November 12, 2011 |
| Stebner, Erin | University of Calgary | Mir-34a Sensitizes Multiple Myeloma (MM) Cells to the Proteasome Inhibitor Bortezomib | The American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, December 9, 2011 |
| Mulder, Jeanne | Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario) | Increased Nucleotide Excision Repair Activity of Aflatoxin-B1-N7-Guanine Adducts but not Aflatoxin-B1-Formamidopyrimidine Adducts in Livers of Mice Exposed Chronically to Aflatoxin-B1 | Society of Toxicology 51st Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, March 11, 2012 |
| Postdoctoral Fellows | |||
| Garnier, Delphine | Montreal Children's Hospital Research Institute | Modulation of cellular vesiculation by epithelial-to-mesenchymal transitions (EMT): Implication for the procoagulant, proangiogenic and tumour initiating phenotype of cancer cells. |
American Association for Cancer Research - AACR 2012, Chicago, IL, March 31, 2012 |
| Majumder, Mousumi | University of Western Ontario | The role of miRNAs in Cyclo-oxygenase-2 mediated breast cancer metastasis | 12th International Congress of Human Genetics/American Society of Human Genetics 61, Montreal, Canada, October 11, 2011 |
| Binda, Olivier | Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research (Montreal) | Lysine methylation of the histone H2A variant H2AZ by SETD6 | EMBO workshop - Histone Variants & Genome Regulation, Strasbourg, France, October 12-14, 2011 |
| April 15, 2011 Competition | |||
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| Recipient | Affiliation | Project | Conference |
| M.Sc. Students | |||
| Shyam Garg | University of Alberta | The Effect of Core Structure on the Biocompatibility and Biodegradability of Polymeric Micelles based on Functionalized Poly(ethylene Oxide)-block-poly(epsilon-caprolactone): an in vitro Study | 6th Biennial International Conference for Materials in Advanced Technologies, Suntec, Singapore, June 26 – July 1, 2011 |
| Naomi Shin | McGill University | Risk of Radiation-Induced Secondary Cancers in Paediatric Patients: A Comparison of Intensity Modulated Proton Therapy and Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy | 2011 Joint American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)/Canadian Organization of Medical Physics (COMP) meeting, Vancouver, BC, July 31 - August 4, 2011 |
| Ph.D. Students | |||
| Jennifer Brunet | McGill University | Weight Gain among Breast Cancer Survivors and Its Association to Emotions of Shame and Guilt | Annual IPOS World Congress of Psycho-Oncology, Antalya, Turkey, October 16-20, 2011 |
| Christopher MacKinnon | McGill University | Development of the Meaning-Centered Group Counselling for Bereavement: Preliminary Results. | The International Psycho-Oncology Society Annual Conference, Antayla, Turkey, October 16-20, 2011 |
| Natasha Malik | University of Toronto | Protein Interactions of the Epstein-Barr Nuclear Antigen 1 (EBNA1) in Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma and Gastric Carcinoma | DNA Tumour Virus Meeting, Trieste, Italy, July 19-24, 2011 |
| Anne-Laure Pin | Université Laval | microRNAs-Mediated Regulation of p38 Map Kinase Pathway in Response to VEGF | ISREC Symposium Hallmarks and Horizons of Cancer, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 7-10, 2011 |
| Maral Pourghiasian | B.C. Cancer Research Centre | Improved tumor targeting of F-18 bombesin analogs labeled by click chemistry is achieved by addition of a PEG side chain | Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, 58th annual meeting, San Antonio, Texas, June 4, 2011-June 8,2011 |
| Kelsie Thu | University of British Columbia | Lung adenocarcinoma genomes of never smokers exhibit a greater extent of genomic instability than those of smokers | World Conference on Lung Cancer 2011, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 3-7, 2011 |
| Claudia Trudel-Fitzgerald | Université Laval | Passive Coping Strategies as a Mediator between Perfectionism and Psychological Symptoms | 13th World Congress of the International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS) / Integrating the Psychosocial Domain into Routine Cancer Care: Bridging Continents and Cultures for Global Cancer Support, Antalya, Turkey, October 16-20, 2011 |
| Mathieu Vernier | Université de Montréal | New advances in regulation of senescence by PML and the PML nuclear bodies | Cancer Conference 2011 (Zing Conference) "From carcinogenesis to cancer therapy", Puerto Morelos, Mexique, 9-13 novembre 2011 |
| Postdoctoral Fellows | |||
| Fabiola Aparicio-Ting | Alberta Health Services | Correlates of meeting physical activity guidelines for cancer prevention | 3rd North American Congress of Epidemiology, Montreal, QC, June 21-24, 2011 |
| Leeat Granek | McMaster University | The Health Consequences of Being a Single Mother Caring for a Child with Cancer: Preliminary Findings | The American Psychological Association conference, Washington, DC, August 4-7, 2011 |
| Kilian Gust | University of British Columbia | Targeting Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor (FGFR)-3 in Bladder Cancer: Pre-Clinical Proof of Principle | Annual meeting of the American Urological Association (AUA), Washington, DC, May 14-19, 2011 |
| January 15, 2011 Competition | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Recipient | Affiliation | Project | Conference |
| M.Sc. Students | |||
| Jenny Chu | University of Western Ontario | Organ Tropism of Stem-Like Breast Cancer Cells in the Metastatic Process | Keystone Symposia on Stem Cells, Cancer and Metastasis, Keystone, Colorado, March 6-11, 2011 |
| Sang Eun (Eunice) Kim |
University of Northern British Columbia | Investigation into the relationship between intracellular localization of APE1 and cellular stress | 102nd American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, April 2-6, 2011 |
| Eric Poulin | Université de Sherbrooke | Feasibility of dual pharmacokinetic modeling using Gd-DTPA/MRI and 18F-FDG/PET | 19th International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Montreal, May 7-13, 2011 |
| Graham Skelhorne-Gross |
Queen's University | The in vivo role of adipocyte-specific PPARγ in environmental risk factor-mediated breast tumourigenesis. | 50th annual meeting of the Society of Toxicology, Washington, DC, March 6-10, 2011 |
| Ph.D. Students | |||
| Tsz Wai Chu | McGill University | Mutations in the human telomerase 'insertion in fingers domain' alter telomerase-specific functions. | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meeting on telomeres and telomerase, New York, USA, May 3-7, 2011 |
| Meiou Dai | McGill University | The p21/cyclin D1/CDK4 signaling axis in TGFbeta mediated breast cancer progression. | Cold Spring Harbor meeting on The Biology of Cancer: Microenvironment, Metastasis and Therapeutics, New York, USA, April 26-30, 2011 |
| Golnaz Farhat | University of Toronto | Detecting Cell Death Using Optical Coherence Tomography | The Biomedical Optics (BIOS) conference (SPIE - Photonics West), San Francisco, CA, January 22-27, 2011 |
| Eric Pesarchuk | University of British Columbia | MCL-1: Functions in the nucleus regulating DNA damage response | 9th Conference on Signalling in Normal and Cancer Cells, Banff, AB, March 6-10, 2011 |
| Lyndsay Richardson | McGill University | HPV testing with cytology | EuroGin 2011 Congress, Lisbon, Portugal, May 8-11, 2011 |
| Postdoctoral Fellows | |||
| Ivraym Barsoum | Queen's University | A mechanism of hypoxia-induced immune escape in cancer cells | 102nd American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, April 2-6, 2011 |
| Mousumi Majumder | The University of Western Ontario | Cyclooxygenase-2 promotes breast cancer progression by induction & sustenance of Tumor-Initiating Cells | Stem cells in Cancer and Development by the American Association of Cancer Research, Vancouver, BC, March 3-6, 2011 |
| Athanasios Paschos | McMaster University | Oxidative stress as a target for drug development in prostate cancer | A joint meeting between the AACR and the American Chemical Society - Chemistry in Cancer Research: The Biological Chemistry of Inflammation as a Cause of Cancer, San Diego, CA, January 30 - February 2, 2011 |
| Jonathan Wasserman | Hospital for Sick Children | Prevalence and function of p53 mutations among children with adrenocortical carcinoma | 102nd American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, April 2-6, 2011 |
| October 1, 2010 Competition | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Recipient | Affiliation | Project | Conference |
| M.Sc. Students | |||
| Sarah Neil | University of British Columbia | Predictors of weight loss in a diet and physical activity intervention for breast cancer survivors | The Annual Research Conference of the American Institute for Cancer Research "Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity and Cancer", Washington, DC, October 20-22, 2010 |
| Michael Velec | University Health Network | Effect of Dose Gradients on Accumulated Dose in Liver Stereotactic-Body Radiotherapy (SBRT) | 52nd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Radiation Oncology, San Diego, CA, Octobre 31 - November 4, 2010 |
| Ph.D. Students | |||
| Marie-Ève Brault | McGill University | Role of the SUMO pathway in telomeric recombination and ALT | The Keystone Genomic Instability and DNA Repair Symposium 2011, Keystone, Colorado, January 30 - February 4, 2011 |
| Eunah Chung | McGill University | Advanced dosimetry techniques for accurate verification of nonstandard beams | IAEA International Symposium on Standards, Applications and Quality Assurance in Medical Radiation Dosimetry, Vienna, Austria, November 9-12, 2010 |
| Sung-Eun Kim | University of Toronto | Effect of folate and γ-glutamyl hydrolase modulation on chemosensitivity of colorectal and breast cancer | 102nd American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2011, Orlando, Florida, April 2-6, 2011 |
| Sophie Marcoux | Université de Montréal | Investigating adaptation problems in long-term pediatric leukemia patients: A longitudinal study | American Psychosocial Oncology Society 8th Annual Conference, Anaheim, CA, February 17-19, 2011 |
| Helena Mistry | University of Toronto | UHRF1 uses the Histone Code to Maintain Genome Stability | Keystone Symposia: Histone Code: Fact or Fiction? Midway, Utah, January 10-15, 2010 |
| Rachel Murphy | University of Alberta | Muscle and adipose tissue wasting are prevalent in non-small cell lung cancer patients receiving chemotherapy: an opportunity for intervention | CSEP 2010 - Exploring the Routes to Health and Fitness, Toronto, ON, November 3-6, 2010 |
| Jesse Popov | University of British Columbia | Multivalent Antibody-Liposome Nanoparticles as Innovative Cancer Therapies | 1st Annual Nanomedicine Conference 2010, Beijing, China, October 23-25, 2010 |
| Amanda Wasylishen | University Health Network | Characterizing the mechanisms of Myc-dependent transformation | 2011 Gordon Research Conference on Cancer Genetics and Epigenetics, Ventura, CA, January 23-28, 2011 |
| Payam Zahedi | University of Toronto | A Combination Drug Delivery Strategy to Overcome Multi-Drug Resistance in Ovarian Cancer | American Association Pharmaceutical Sciences Conference, New Orleans, November 13-18, 2010 |
| Postdoctoral Fellows | |||
| Katja Linher-Melville | McMaster University | Establishing a Relationship Between Breast Cancer, Prolactin, and Altered Fat Metabolism | San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, San Antonio, TX, December 8-12, 2010 |
| Alexandre Theocharides | University Health Network | CD47-Sirpα Interaction Modulates Homing and Engraftment of Human Acute Myeloid Leukemia Stem Cells | Annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology 2010, Orlando, Florida, December 4, 2010 |
| Nicole White | St. Michael's Hospital and U of T | MiRNA Profiling in Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma: Biomarker Discovery and Identification of Potential Controls and Consequences of miRNA Dysregulation. | Keystone Symposia: MicroRNAs and Non-Coding RNAs and Cancer, Banff, AB, February 11-16, 2011 |
| June 15, 2010 Competition | |||
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| Recipient | Affiliation | Project | Conference |
| M.Sc. Students | |||
| Mr. Timothy Pok Chi Yeung | The University of Western Ontario | Initial Findings of perfusion and metabolic imaging of malignant glioma during radiation therapy | 52nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology, San Diego, CA, October 31-November 4, 2010 |
| Ph.D. Students | |||
| Ms. Jennifer Yinuo Cao | University of Toronto | EBNA1 Disrupts PML Nuclear Bodies Through a Direct Interaction with Protein Kinase CK2 | 14th Biennial Symposium of the International Association of Research on Epstein-Barr Virus and Associated Disease, Birmingham, UK, September 4-7, 2010 |
| Mr. Jacky Chung | Hospital for Sick Children Institute | SATB2 augments Delta-Np63-alpha in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory - Mechanisms and Models for Cancer 2010, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, August 17-21, 2010 |
| Ms. Marie-Andrée Forget | Université de Montréal, CRCHUM | Immune Response Against DKK1 in Common Cancers | International Society for Biological Therapy of Cancer (iSBTc) Congress, Washington, DC, October 1, 2010 |
| Mr. Jeffrey Smirle | McGill University | Characterization of novel proteins uncovered by a proteomics analysis of the early secretory pathway. | Gordon Conference entitled "Pro-protein processing, trafficking, and secretion," New London, NH, July 18-23, 2010 |
| Ms. Lisa Watt | McMaster University | Perceptions about complementary and alternative medicine use among chinese immigrant parents of children with cancer | 42nd Congress of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP), Boston, MA, October 21-24, 2010 |
| Postdoctoral Fellows | |||
| Dr. Abdul Kalam Azad | Ontario Cancer Institute | Prognostic role of genetic polymorphisms in head and neck cancer survival | 26th International conference on pharmacoepidemiology and therapeutic risk management, Brighton Metroplole, UK, August 19-22, 2010 |
| Dr. Elizabeth Fidalgo da Silva | University of Windsor | Tuberin Regulates Mitotic Onset Through the Cellular Localization of Cyclin B1 | Cold Spring Harbor Mechanisms and Models of Cancer meeting, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, August 17-21, 2010 |
| Dr. Michelle Kho | Johns Hopkins University | Systematic Bibliometric Review: A new methodology presenting patient-centred outcomes in the context of reviews, guidelines, and media reports. Part 2: A case study of Rituximab for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) 1997-2003. | 2010 Cochrane Colloquium international meeting, Keystone, CO, October 18, 2010 |
| Dr. Anna Santos Salas | University of Alberta | Embodying Ethics in the Home: the Nurses' Skilled Practice of Doing the ESAS in the Home | 18th International Congress on Palliative Care, Montreal, QC, October 5-8, 2010 |
| Dr. Fiona Schulte | University of Calgary | Child characteristics and clinical factors related to social skills and quality of life in children treated for brain tumours after participation in an intervention program | 42nd Congress of the International Society of Pediatric Oncology, Boston, MA, October 21-24, 2010 |
| Dr. Bosu Seo | University of Manitoba | Population-Based Analysis of Adherence to Colorectal Cancer (CRC) Follow-up Testing in Manitoba | 38th North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG) Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, November 13-17, 2010 |
| Dr. Lisa Wise-Milestone | Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre | Local Treatment of Mixed Osteolytic/Osteoblastic Spinal Metastases: Is Photodynamic Therapy Effective? | 10th International Conference on Cancer-Induced Bone Disease, Sheffield, UK, September 22-25, 2010 |
| May 14, 2010 Competition | |||
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| Recipient | Affiliation | Project | Conference |
| M.Sc. Students | |||
| Ms. Elizabeth Kuczynski | University of Guelph | Interplay between TGF-beta and VEGFR2 expression in colorectal cancer blood vessels | 16th International Vascular Biology Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, June 20-24, 2010 |
| Ms. Lori Lowes | The University of Western Ontario | Molecular Marker Development for Characterizing CD44, M-30 and PSA on CTCs in Metastatic Cancer | Joint Metastasis Research Society - AACR Conference, Philadelphia, USA, September 19, 2010 |
| Ms. Candace Sirjoosingh | McGill University | Socioeconomic and Racial Disparities in Cervical Cancer Survival in the United States | Society for Epidemiologic Research Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, June 23-26, 2010 |
| Ph.D. Students | |||
| Ms. Angela Burleigh | BC Cancer Research Centre | Systematic identification of signal transducers required for mammary epithelial cell growth | Mammary Gland Biology Gordon Research Conference, Barga, Italy, June 6-11, 2010 |
| Dr. Jérôme Côté | Université de Sherbrooke | DCE-MRI evaluation of inducible kinin B1 receptor-mediated selective blood-brain barrier permeabilisation in F98 glioma-bearing Fischer rats with a high molecular weight contrast agent | Canadian Neuro-Oncology Meeting, Niagara Falls, ON, May 14-16, 2010 |
| Ms. Elizabeth Donohue | University of British Columbia | Early stage inhibition of autophagy by verteporfin | 21st Conference of the European Association for Cancer Research, Oslo, Norway, June 26-29, 2010 |
| Ms. Carolyn Goard | University Health Network | Identifying determinants of statin sensitivity in breast cancer | 2010 EORTC-NCI-AACR International Symposium on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics, Berlin, Germany, November 2010 |
| Ms. Purna Joshi | University of Toronto | Progesterone induces adult mammary stem cell expansion | Mammary Gland Biology Gordon Research Conference, Lucca, Italy, June 6-11, 2010 |
| Mr. Thao-Nguyen Nguyen | University of Toronto | Multi-organ deformable finite element model of pancreatic respiratory motion | ICCR 2010 - International Conference on the use of Computers in Radiation Therapy, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 31-June 3, 2010 |
| Mr. James Stewart | University of Toronto | Adaptive Replanning for IMRT of Cervix Cancer Based on Dosimetric and Volumetric Analysis of Treatment Progress | ICCR 2010 - International Conference on the use of Computers in Radiation Therapy, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 31-June 3, 2010 |
| Ms. Jennifer Wolter | University of Toronto | Role of p53 and p73 in neuroblastoma chemosensitivity and neuroblastoma tumour initiating cells | Advances in Neuroblastoma Research Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, June 21-24, 2010 |
| Postdoctoral Fellows | |||
| Dr. Kathleen Clouston | University of Manitoba | Strategies fostering collaborative relationships between family physicians & primary care researchers | Family Medicine Forum 2010, Vancouver, BC, October 14-16, 2010 |
| Dr. Frederick Antoine Mallette | McGill University | The lysine demethylase JMJD2A controls chromatin remodelling and senescence | FASEB meeting on Biological Methylation: from DNA to Histones and Beyond, Carefree, AZ, June 6-11, 2010 |
