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Special recognition for research on viral and immune-based therapies for cancer
December 18, 2013
Research papers led by Drs.
John Bell
,
Jean-Simon Diallo
and
Rebecca Auer
were named on the Canadian Cancer Society’s list of their top 15 funded research projects of 2013. The paper by Dr. Auer’s group, published in
Cancer Research
, shows that viral therapies can bolster immune cells called Natural Killers to help prevent the spread of cancer after surgery. The paper by Dr. Bell’s group and Dr. Diallo’s group, published in
Nature Communications
, uses mathematical modeling to design novel viral therapies to attack cancer. See
media release
,
Ottawa Citizen
or
Ottawa Sun
for details.
About the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI) is the research arm of The Ottawa Hospital and is an affiliated institute of the University of Ottawa, closely associated with the university’s Faculties of Medicine and Health Sciences. OHRI includes more than 1,700 scientists, clinical investigators, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and staff conducting research to improve the understanding, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human disease. www.ohri.ca
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Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
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