2024 JHCC Research Grant Winners Announced

Announcing the 2024 Juravinski Hospital and Cancer Centre Foundation Research Grant Winners

Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation and the Department of Oncology is excited to introduce this year’s cohort of remarkable grant recipients. Their curiosity and commitment to innovation will open up new possibilities and shape the future of cancer care for generations to come.

Project Title: Analysis of the impact of allogeneic stem cell transplantation on clinical outcomes of patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia in Ontario

Principal Investigators: Brittany Salter, Tobias Berg and Alejanadro Garcia-Horton

Co-Investigators: Kylie Lepic, Hira Mian, Hsein Seow, Gregory Pond

Carpenter Family Award for Malignant Hematology and Leukemia Research

Project Title: Development and evaluation of an artificial intelligence (AI)-based platform for analyzing contrast-enhanced mammograms

Principal Investigators: Ashirbani Saha and Ameya Madhav Kulkarni

Co-Investigators: Mark Levine

Project Title: A Feasibility Study in Ultra-Hypofractionated Simultaneous Integrated Boost for Early-Stage Breast Cancer: Can we be more efficient in the delivery of adjuvant radiotherapy?

Principal Investigator: Timothy Whelan

Co-Investigators: Elysia Donovan, Valerie Theberge, Barbara K. Strang, Do-Hoon Kim, Jonathan Sussman, Mira Goldberg, Michele Cardoso, Baochang Liu, Sameer Parpia

BRIGHT Run Research Fund

Project Title: A Comprehensive Evaluation of Two Promising Artificial Intelligence-based Tools in Title and Abstract Screening for the Development of Evidence-based Cancer Guidelines

Principal Investigator: Xiaomei Yao

Co-Investigators: Ashirbani Saha, Jonathan Sussman

BRIGHT Run Research Fund, Hadley H. Chamberlain Award for Prostate Cancer Research

Project Title: Decoding the Function of Kaiso in the Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Cell Cycle

Principal Investigators: Juliet M. Daniel and Robert W. Cowan

BRIGHT Run Research Fund

Project Title: Correlative Study: Fixed duration vs continuous daratumumab in newly diagnosed patients with multiple myeloma (MY13)

Principal Investigator: Hira Mian

Co-Investigators: Chai Phua, Dawn Bowdish, Gregory Pond, Arleigh McCurdy, Alissa Visram, Martha Louzada, Matthew Nichols, Tobias Berg

Project Title: Pre-operative education and psychotherapy intervention to address postmastectomy body image concerns: A feasibility study

Principal Investigator: Elena Parvez

Co-Investigators: Karen Zhang, Mark Levine, Denise Bryant-Lukosius, Christopher Coroneos, Nicole Hodgson, Nidhi Kumar Tyagi, Sarah Neil-Sztramko, Sameer Parpia, Jennifer Pink, Sandra Turner, Bridget Veltri

BRIGHT Run Research Fund

Project Title: Radiation Therapy followed by Durvalumab / Tremelimumab And Surgery versus Radiation Therapy followed by Surgery for Resectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma. A Randomized Window of Opportunity Trial (DARTS)

Principal Investigator: Pablo E. Serrano

Co-Investigators: Brandon Meyers, Anand Swaminath, Tariq Aziz, Greg Pond, Jonathan Bramson, Chloe Theriault

John Rogerson Jackson & Dorothea Marguerite Jackson Award for Oncology Research

About the JHCC Research Grants Program:

Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation’s JHCC research grants program was developed to award grants annually for research to advance the prevention and treatment of cancer. The program aims to support the development of early career investigators involved in the Cancer Program at Juravinski Hospital and Cancer Centre across a variety of disciplines. Since the program was founded in 1998, the Foundation has awarded over $5.6 million in funding to 123 research projects. This year alone, more than $550,000 has been awarded to support groundbreaking cancer research.

The next call for applicants will be open from January 2025 until April 30th, 2025 at

hamiltonhealth.ca/grants