Researchers at the Vancouver Prostate Centre and BC Cancer have developed a new blood test that provides unprecedented insight into a patient’s cancer make-up, potentially allowing doctors to better select treatment options that will improve patient outcomes.

Dr. Govind Kaigala has been appointed Senior Research Scientist at our Centre. Dr. Kaigala (PhD) was recruited to the UBC School of Biomedical Engineering (SBME), UBC Life Sciences Institute (LSI) and the Vancouver Prostate Center.

The second annual Professor Madanlal T. Wasan Memorial Prize in Urologic Sciences Award has been awarded to Dr. Gillian Vandekerkhove. Dr. Ninadh D’Costa received the first annual award in 2021.

VCHRI News published an article about Dr. Nathan Lack's research. Click here to see the article at VCHRI News, or scroll down for the text.

Congratulations to Dr. Lucia Nappi, PI of the multi-centre international project “Integrating investigational miR371a-3p with conventional radiology imaging for earlier and more precise detection of active germ cell malignancy: a BCC/SWOG/S1823 secondary use of data collaboration” which received a five year, $1.5M USD National Institute of Health R37 Grant in the category of Imaging, Biomarkers and Digital Pathomics for the Early Detection of Premetastatic Aggressive Cancer.

Congratulations to Drs Wyatt, Chi and Fonseca on being awarded a three-year Canadian Cancer Society Challenge Grant - Sept 2021 competition for their project, Accelerating clinical development of plasma ctDNA fraction as a management tool in advanced prostate cancer.
Congratulations to Drs.Daugaard, Wang, Wyatt and their teams on being awarded multi-year grants in the CIHR Project Grant: Fall 2021 competition.
The Project Grant program is designed to capture ideas with the greatest potential to advance health-related fundamental or applied knowledge, health research, health care, health systems, and/or health outcomes. It supports projects with a specific purpose and a defined endpoint. The best ideas may stem from new, incremental, innovative, and/or high-risk lines of inquiry or knowledge translation approaches.

Congratulations to Dr. Artem Cherkasov on being awarded the Tier 1 CRC in Precision Cancer Drug Design.
This week, Dr. Edmund Kwan received the 2021 Amgen-PCF Young Investigator Award, and Dr. Kwan and Dr. Michael Cox were both recipients of UBC Killam awards.