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Dr. Jeffrey Wrana – 2010 Premier’s Summit Award Winner
His research has given scientists and clinicians new ways of thinking about the diagnosis and treatment of a range of cancers. Ontario researcher Dr. Jeffrey Wrana is one of two recipients of the 2010 Premier’s Summit Award for Medical Research.
The Premier’s Summit Award for Medical Research, established in 2005, is one of Canada’s richest prizes in medical research. Recipients receive $5 million over five years.
Dr. Jeffrey Wrana is doing internationally acclaimed research on the interactions of human proteins and the complex network of pathways that lead to disease. His most recent groundbreaking work has revealed how breast cancer alters these protein networks, providing new opportunities for prognosis and treatment. Last year, Dr. Wrana developed an innovative tool that analyzes breast cancer tumours to determine a patient’s best treatment options, and he has also made significant discoveries related to colorectal and other cancers.
Dr. Wrana is a Senior Investigator and the Mary Janigan Research Chair in Molecular Cancer Therapeutics at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital. He created a leading-edge robotics facility where researchers at the Lunenfeld and across Ontario can analyze the functions of thousands of genes at a time and rapidly identify the processes important in human diseases, including cancer.
Read more here: http://www.marsdd.com/aboutmars/news/newsreleases/2010/scisummit-05192010
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