Apr 03, 2025

Canada-wide network of cancer research partners celebrate significant moment in work to advance precision oncology in the country

Nov 11, 2024

Longtime OICR Executives to lead Institute through important new chapter

Jun 13, 2024

Ask a Cancer Researcher: Why is it so challenging to find a cure for cancer?

Apr 16, 2024

Student-developed machine learning model can predict how medicines treat different tumours

Jun 20, 2023

New funding partnership with U of T Data Sciences Institute aims to drive new breakthroughs

Apr 26, 2023

Ask a Cancer Researcher: Why do we sequence tumour DNA?

Feb 02, 2023

OICR researchers join Lancet commission to tackle inequities in precision cancer care

Dec 15, 2022

OICR-led data resource deemed ‘critical’ to global biomedical research

Dec 08, 2022

Zooming in on mouse brain development reveals origins of human glial cancers

Nov 23, 2021

International Cancer Genome Consortium empowers cancer researchers everywhere with new cloud computing platform

Apr 08, 2021

OICR to contribute to new Canadian COVID-19 data portal

Nov 18, 2020

Three OICR researchers named to this year’s Highly Cited Researchers list

Feb 05, 2020

Unprecedented exploration generates most comprehensive map of cancer genomes charted to date

Feb 05, 2020

New clues to cancer in the genome’s other 99 per cent

Feb 05, 2020

AI algorithm classifies cancer types better than experts

Feb 05, 2020

Dr. Lincoln Stein talks about the Pan-Cancer Project

Feb 05, 2020

Finding the roots of cancer, ‘It’s a needle in a haystack’

Feb 05, 2020

TrackSig: Unlocking the history of cancer

Oct 09, 2019

Researchers discover a new cancer-driving mutation in the “dark matter” of the cancer genome

May 01, 2019

The unanticipated early origins of childhood brain cancer

Aug 22, 2018

Heliotrope: Personalizing cancer treatment decisions

Jun 27, 2018

Healthcare Software Start-Up Ziliomics Financed by FACIT

May 10, 2018

Symposium offers preview of findings from the Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes project

Jan 25, 2018

The Canadian Data Integration Centre receives new funding to help cancer researchers translate findings to patients

Oct 23, 2017

Pathology Matters 2017 unites and informs Ontario's pathology community

Sep 06, 2017

Innovative study brings next-generation genomic sequencing to more Ontario cancer patients

Aug 15, 2017

New data resource centre will help better understand links between birth defects and childhood cancer

Aug 09, 2017

Importance of large database of genetic variants reinforced in a new study

Jun 07, 2017

EAGLE will help cancer research soar

Mar 22, 2017

FACIT Launches The Prospects Oncology Fund

Mar 08, 2017

In London, OICR leaders discussed cancer research advancements being made in the city. How can OICR help further translate these breakthroughs to patients?

Feb 10, 2017

OICR researchers to be part of Cancer Research UK’s Grand Challenge helping to answer cancer’s biggest questions

Feb 09, 2017

ICGCmed will provide wealth of vital new information to scientists

Nov 18, 2016

OICR participates in the fastest, long-distance academic big data transfer in Canada

Oct 25, 2016

From our Annual Report: Constructing the cloud

Oct 18, 2016

Reactome releases 10,000th annotated human protein, a major milestone that will benefit research community

Oct 06, 2016

Reactome announces annotation and release of 10,000th human protein

Sep 15, 2016

Canadian government makes big investment in big data research

Jul 11, 2016

Dr. Lincoln Stein is named an International Society of Computational Biology Fellow

May 01, 2016

Congratulations! Dr. Lincoln Stein appointed Fellow of ISCB for leadership role in consortia projects

Mar 31, 2016

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Ontario Institute for Cancer Research join Collaborative Cancer Cloud

Dec 03, 2015

The call for a cloud commons in genomics

Nov 18, 2015

The International Cancer Genome Consortium brings more genomic health data to researchers on the Amazon Web Services Cloud

Nov 18, 2015

The International Cancer Genome Consortium brings more genomic health data to researchers on the Amazon Web Services Cloud

Jul 09, 2015

World-leading Big Data researchers call for support for more accessible and more effective storage of data in the cloud to facilitate genomics research