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First-of-its-kind pan-Canadian trial to treat baby brain cancers without radiation
Pediatric centres nationwide have united to launch the DECRYPT-BABYBRAIN trial, a first-of-its-kind clinical trial that uses chemotherapy delivered to the brain to avoid radiation in treating babies and young children with aggressive brain cancer. The trial has recruited its first six participants, with enrollment now open at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto,…
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Collaboration led by BCCHR researchers awarded European funding to improve community-based care in Uganda and Kenya
Dr. Matthew Wiens and colleagues at the Institute for Global Health at BC Children’s & Women’s Hospital, BC Children’s Research Institute, and the University of British Columbia, are the first Canadian Team to lead a Horizon Europe Pillar 2 project. The consortium was recently awarded €5 million under the Global Health EDCTP3 Joint Undertaking for a project that…
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Stem cell engineering breakthrough paves way for next-generation living drugs
For the first time, researchers at UBC have demonstrated how to reliably produce an important type of human immune cell, known as helper T cells, from stem cells in a controlled laboratory setting.
