May 2007
The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) together with Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) are pleased to announce that six projects will receive awards totalling $753,022. OICR’s Cancer Research Fund and CCO are each contributing 50 per cent of the funds for these one year awards.
| Principal Investigator | Institution | Project Type/Title | Award* |
| Andrews, David | McMaster University | Small molecule modulators of Bcl-2 family proteins | $130,000 |
| Ben-David, Yaacov | Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre | Inactivation of Fli-1 using small molecules or compounds towards clinical management of malignancies | $130,000 |
| Diamandis, Eleftherios | Mount Sinai Hospital | Identification of specific, small molecular weight inhibitors of human tissue kallikrein enzymes by high-throughput screening | $130,000 |
| Dirks, Peter | Hospital For Sick Children | High-thoughput screening of human brain cancer stem cells | $130,000 |
| LeBrun, David | Queen’s University Cancer Research Institute | Identifying small molecules that disrupt the oncogenic interaction between E2A-PBX1 and the KIX domain of CBP/p300 | $103,022 |
| Schimmer, Aaron | University Health Network | High-throughput screen to identify genetic and chemical regulators of anoikis | $130,000 |