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Alberta Node

Following extensive consultations with its researchers, we have chosen as our strategic priorities to focus on one or more of the following areas:

Personalized medicine and the use of biomarkers
Imaging tumoursfrom outside the body, non-invasively
New clinical approaches involving insights into solid tumour biology
Studies of the pathways and kinetics involved in metabolism of cancer drugs
Metabolomics in cancer.

NODE LEADER

DR. CAROL E. CASS
Dr. Carol Cass is currently the scientific director research for Alberta Health Services - Cancer Care. In 1996, she left her position as Terry Fox cancer research scientist in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Alberta to become the founding chair of the Department of Oncology at the University of Alberta, a position that she held until 2007.

She also served (2002-2010) as the director of the Cross Cancer Institute, the tertiary cancer centre for Edmonton and northern Alberta. She is now professor emeritus in the Department of Oncology and adjunct professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the UofA.

Dr. Cass received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees at the University of Oklahoma and her PhD at the University of California at Berkeley. Her research concentrations have focused on nucleoside transporter proteins and their relationship with nucleoside drugs. Her work has increased understanding of the mechanisms of nucleoside transport and movement across cell membranes, which has translated into better use of nucleoside drugs in cancer treatments.

PARTICIPATING INSTITUTIONS

Alberta Cancer Board

- Cross Cancer Centre
- Tom Baker Cancer Centre

University of Alberta

University of Calgary

PROVINCIAL PARTNERS

Alberta Cancer Board

TERRY FOX CANCER RESEARCH PORTFOLIO 2011

Searchable Database for Terry Fox Funded Research

Are you looking for information about a TFRI research project? You can access information about our projects through an online database. The information is available from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research's searchable database and appear on the national Canadian Research Information System (CRIS) database. The database is searchable by subject, investigator, funding, location or program.

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WHAT'S NEW


>	April 14, 2011 - TFRI welcomes new investment at CancerCare Manitoba

>	April 12, 2011 - Investment helps novel drug for colorectal cancer move forward into clinical trial to determine tolerability for patients

>	February 8, 2011 - The Terry Fox New Frontiers Program in Cancer at CIHR

>	more news ...

MEETINGS


>	2009 Inaugural Annual Scientific Meeting Participants (May 22-24, Vancouver) *Top Canadian cancer scientists and clinicians gather ...*


>	Zhe Jiang of Toronto General Hospital reviews a poster at TFRI inaugural meeting in Vancouver, May 22-24

>	more meetings ...