VPC News

Zakir Tahiry, a PhD student at the VPC (under the supervision of Dr Mads Daugaard), was awarded with the CIHR Vanier Scholarship. The Vanier program awards world class doctoral students who demonstrate leadership skills and high standard of scholarly achievement.

Our spin-off company, Sustained Therapeutics, has developed a soft polymer gel that is being clinically tested to deliver pain relieving drugs via local injection to targeted sites in the body in a highly controlled manner. The gel is designed to release the medication slowly, potentially providing...

CFI grant, $312,500, was awarded to a research program led by Dr Ryan Flannigan, titled Infrastructure to Establish a Combined Regenerative and Precision Medicine Reproductive Research Program. In Canada, approximately 2440 boys aged less than 15 will be diagnosed with cancer each year. Fortunately...

Congratulations to Dr. Ryan Flannigan who received the 2022 Rising Stars in Urology Research Award at American Urological Association (AUA) and the Urology Care Foundation! This award offers up to five years of supplemental salary support to urologists with excellent scientific and ethical standing...

Congratulations to Drs. Michael Cox, Kish Wasan, Nathan Lack, Syam Somasekharan and their teams on being awarded the 5 year Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Project Grant for an amount of C$ 956,250.00. The grant is titled, 'Understanding epigenetic regulation and modulation of cell...

Congratulations to Dr Stephen Choi, a postdoctoral cancer researcher in the Urologic Sciences Department at the University of British Columbia, who is earning the Mitacs Award for Outstanding Innovation — Postdoctoral for his work to develop a groundbreaking treatment for prostate cancers. Turning...

Congratulations to the VPC team led by Dr. Amina Zoubeidi on receiving a successful team grant for a 2022 New Frontiers Program Project Grant from The Terry Fox Research Institute. The VPC team will investigate how some prostate cancer cells evade current targeted therapies, assess emergent...

Congratulations to Dr. Martin Gleave who received the Mostafa M. Elhilali Award at the SIU in Montreal! Every year, during the SIU Annual Congress, the Society recognizes outstanding contributions to the Society, and the field of urology through the presentation of various awards. This award in...

Congratulations to Dr. Lucia Nappi, PI of the research project: “Detection of early relapse using circulating miR371a-3p in patients with early stage testicular germ cell tumors” which received a three year, $622,872 USD US Department of Defense – Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program in the...

Lineage plasticity of prostate cancer is associated with resistance to androgen receptor (AR) pathway inhibition (ARPI) and supported by a reactive tumor microenvironment. According to research published in the open access journal nature communications, changes in chondroitin sulfate (CS), a major...