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Perspectives on Cancer Survivorship: Penelope Hedges – Patient Partner
About the "Perspectives on Cancer Survivorship" Patient Partner Series What is cancer survivorship? By definition, survivorship ...Read More
A Celebration of Trainees in BC
On June 3rd to June 4th, the Gynecologic Cancer Initiative hosted our first Trainee Research Day to ...Read More
Staff Spotlight – Almira Zhantuyakova: Masters Student
Almira is a second-year master’s student at the University of British Columbia in the Reproductive ...Read More
Carraresi Foundation and Sumiko Kobayashi Marks Memorial OVCARE Research Grant Recipients
Congratulations to Dr. Heather Stuart, Dr. Andrea Neilson, and Dr. Lauren Tindale for being the 2021 recipients of the Carraresi Foundation ...Read More
Staff Spotlight — Rachel Wan: OVCARE Clinical Research Assistant
Rachel Wan is a Clinical Research Assistant at OVCARE and helps coordinate the clinical research components of the Gynecologic Cancer Tissue Bank— a key biorepository resource available ...Read More
Division of Gynecologic Oncology Research Awards Recipient: Dr. Emily Thompson
The UBC Division of Gynecologic Research Award is an annual award of up to $20,000 ...Read More
Supporting Women’s Cancer Journeys One Listener at a Time
The GOSH Podcast creates a space for conversations with women affected by gynecologic cancers and ...Read More
Staff Spotlight — Cindy Shen: OVCARE Research Technician
Cindy Shen is a research assistant and technician at OVCARE, a research group led by Dr. David ...Read More
Division of Gynecologic Oncology Research Awards Recipient: Dr. Karolin Heinze
The UBC Division of Gynecologic Research Award is an annual award of up to $20,000 ...Read More
Funding Opportunity: GCI Clinical Trials Group Accelerating Grants Program
Deadline dates LOI due dateMay 3, 2021LOI resultsEnd of May, 2021Full application due dateJuly 5, ...Read More
UBC announces the 2021/22 Research Excellence Clusters
For the third year in a row, the Gynecologic Cancer Initiative (GCI) is excited to announce that ...Read More
Staff Spotlight — Rie Stadnichuk: Communications Assistant
As the new Communications Assistant with the Gynecologic Cancer Initiative (GCI), I hope to create ...Read More
Gynecologic Cancer Initiative Trainee Research Day
Register today! The Gynecologic Cancer Initiative Trainee Research Day is a virtual event to showcase ...Read More
Female Leaders in Gynecologic Cancer Research Spotlight on International Women’s Day
Celebrated globally, March 8th marks International Women’s Day, a day to celebrate women's achievements, raise ...Read More
Metabolic discovery may lead to new ways to treat ovarian cancer
BC Cancer researchers have now discovered a key finding that will help them use gene-engineering ...Read More
Algorithms learn the language of medicine to predict cancer risk
Data scientist Dr. Aline Talhouk, PhD’13 works within a clinical research team, where she has ...Read More
Global Excellence: Local Research Influences Major Worldwide Publication
In September, the 5th edition of the World Health Organization Classification of Female Genital Tract Tumours ...Read More
New Regional Collaboration will Accelerate Innovation in Data-Intensive Medical Science
What if some of the leading organizations in technology, research and medicine worked together to ...Read More
Dry Lab Harnesses Big Data for Gynecologic Cancer Research
The new informatics core at VGH is harmonizing data sets from around the province to ...Read More
Elimination in Our Sight
Dr. Gina Ogilvie and Genesa Greening on the importance of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) ...Read More