Marignani Discovery Research Laboratory awarded Breast Cancer Society of Canada Funding
June 15, 2022
CTV features Marignani Discovery Research Lab receipt of $250K grant for breast cancer research
July 18, 2022
The Breast Cancer Society of Canada is granting $250,000 in funding to the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine at Dalhousie University, for a research project led by Dr. Paola Marignani. The goal of Marignani’s research is to identify unique markers associated with HER2+ breast cancer recurrence, and understand how the cancer returns.
The Breast Cancer Society of Canada was founded in 1991; this is the first year the organization is running a grant program, and Marignani is one of the first recipients.
Marignani said HER2+ is responsible for up to 30 per cent of breast cancers diagnosis, and that this project will be funded for the next three years under her supervision, with a team of post-doctoral fellows with a PhD in molecular biology.
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