Great to be a part of the #CCRC2025 Opening Ceremony and introduce the members of the Executive Planning Committee with my co-Chair Dr. Paula Robson

Beyond grateful to this group for their outstanding session on meaningful #PatientEngagement in research at ICR's ECR Workshop. My sincerest thanks to Dr. Cedric Tremblay, Carolyn Van, Dr. Doreen Ezeife, Dana Bellis, Megan Sewell and Martina Wood for your sharing your insights and experiences! 👏

Such a pleasure to co-moderate Dr. Paul Hébert's presentation on Day 1 of the #CCRC2025 with the Director General of CIHR's Program Design and Delivery branch, Paula Kirton.

Our talented and highly-engaged 2025 Early Career Researcher Workshop cohort! ⭐

Such a fantastic panel on "How to Get the Grant Money" at ICR's ECR Workshop. Shout-out to the incredible panelists Drs. Mona Shafey, Kathy McCoy and Winson Cheung and our outstanding moderator Dr. Judy Bray. Thanks for your participation on this panel!

An honour to co-host a fireside chat with CIHR President, Dr. Paul Hébert at ICR's Early Career Researcher (ECR) Workshop in Calgary this past Saturday. Thank you Dr. Hébert for taking the time to join us and share your insights. It was great to see such high engagement from our ECRs!

Thank you to our ICR IAB members for yet another successful and productive meeting this past Friday Oct 31, 2025 in Calgary!

ICR's Assistant Director, Dr. Emma Ito represented CIHR/Canada at the TRANSCAN-3 JTC 2023 Symposium in Milan, Italy. Great to connect with Dr. Manoj Lalu from OHRI and Dr. Julie Lessard from REACTION, the team co-funded by ICR in the 2023 JTC.

Very promising study highlighting a new potential technology for cancer early detection, one of ICR's research priorities. Looking forward to the results of the ongoing trial. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Dr. Ito (Assistant Director, CIHR-ICR) and Dr. Haibe-Kains (Senior Scientist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre) attending the fantastic ARCHIMEDES Health Data Summit, hosted by Dr. Peter Liu (NPA, Brain-Heart Interconnectome).

Excited to be attending the 13th Conference of the #GA4GH in Uppsala, Sweden! Thrilled to re-connect with Dr. Peter Goodhand (GA4GH CEO) and Dr. Étienne Richer (Director, Genomics Programs, @genomecanada.ca).

Excellent meeting this morning in Ottawa between Elisabete Weiderpass (Director, IARC) and Pamela Aung-Thin (Assistant Deputy Minister of the Health Products and Food Branch) and Kelly Robinson (Director General of the Pharmaceutical Drugs Directorate) from Health Canada!

Another productive meeting between Dr. Weiderpass and our Health Canada colleagues Dr. Robin Churchill (Director, Bureau of Chemical Safety in the Food and Nutrition Directorate) and Dr. Tim Singer (Director General, Environmental and Radiation Health Sciences Directorate). Thanks for meeting!

Great meeting with Dr. Elisabete Weiderpass and our friends and colleagues @genomecanada.ca, Dr. Étienne Richer (Director, Genomics Programs), Ms. Sapna Mahajan (Director, Research and Innovation), and Dr. Rob Annan (CEO) in Ottawa!

Wonderful meeting with Dr. Elisabete Weiderpass and Dr. Mona Nemer, Canada's Chief Science Advisor, to discuss IARC's impactful cancer research programs. Thank you for meeting with us Dr. Nemer!

Honoured to have hosted and introduced Dr. Elisabete Weiderpass for her seminar today on "The Global Cancer Burden: IARC's Evolving Research and Prevention Strategies" at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre—a fantastic session with valuable insights and discussion on #GlobalCancerPrevention!

Excited to be welcoming Dr. Elisabete Weiderpass, Director of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), to her first day of her one week visit to Canada!

Grateful to our CIHR President, Dr. Paul Hébert, for visiting our Institute of Cancer Research yesterday and taking the time to meet with leadership, as well as early- and mid-career researchers across our cancer research community @pmresearch-uhn.bsky.social @uhnresearch.ca. Thanks for the visit!

Congratulations to these outstanding awardees! Your groundbreaking work has been transformational for #CancerResearch in Canada. So well-deserved! ⭐

Fantastic meeting today with Jennifer Bernard, President and CEO @sickkidsvs.bsky.social. Many thanks for stopping by the ICR office!

It was wonderful to sit down with @drfeifeiliu.bsky.social while at @theaacr.bsky.social's #AACR25 to learn about what is top of mind for Canada. Enjoy our conversation! oncodaily.com/blog/carolyn... #CandidlyWithCarolyn #CancerResearch #CancerInnovation #CancerFutures #CIHR

Some more photos from the 67th session of IARC's Governing Council! Honoured to have been a part of these great discussions about what is happening in #CancerResearch on the global scale. Looking forward to the next session in May 2026!

At the CRUK Cancer Prevention Research Conference in London, UK, with this fantastic group of Canadian attendees and research talent! #PrevConf25

Congratulations to the latest members inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame, including Dr. Nadine Caron, Dr. Geoffrey Fong, and Dr. Steven Narod. Great to see such incredible Canadian cancer research talent inducted this year! www.cdnmedhall.ca/induction

Was in Ottawa this week for CIHR's final in-person Science Council meeting at 160 Elgin before we relocate to the new office. As always, great to connect with my fellow Institute Scientific Directors and the CIHR executive leadership team to discuss strategic directions in research!

Honoured to have attended the Hotıì ts’eeda gathering in Aurora Village near Yellowknife last week. Also grateful to have been invited to the Book of Hope dinner event, where Sara Komarnisky and NWT Health Minister Lesa Semmler spoke—an inspiring evening of connection and dialogue. nwtspor.ca/en

An excellent Canadian study reporting the strong association between UPF consumption and cardiometabolic blood results, which can be reversed in part with fresh fruits and vegetables. nutritionandmetabolism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Congrats to the CCTG team, led by Dr. Kerry Courneya, on their RCT demonstrating the significant DFS benefit of structured exercise for CRC patients - just published in NEJM! www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Having an amazing time in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories (NWT), to discuss bringing radiotherapy care close to home for cancer patients in the North. Thank you to all of the incredible people I've had the pleasure of meeting during my time in NWT!

What a privilege to represent CIHR and Canada at the 67th Session of the IARC Governing Council earlier this month in Lyon, France. It is always such a pleasure to be in attendance!

Lovely meeting the inaugural cohort of the AACR-CIHR Scholar-in-Training Awards at #AACR25 alongside @theaacr.bsky.social President, Dr. Lillian Siu! CIHR-ICR is proud to support the next generation of cancer scientists and their cutting-edge research. Bravo!

Fascinating article describing colibactin mutational signature in early onset colorectal cancer: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An honour to co-present the CIHR-ICR & CAPO Research Excellence and Early Career Investigator Awards with CAPO President, Dr. Doris Howell to our awardees Dr. Josée Savard and Dr. Laura Struik (accepted on her behalf by her grad student, Ashmeet Mand) at the CAPO Conference last week!

Amazing talk on patient and family storytelling by Mike Lang and Dr. Andrea Bezjak at the 40th annual CAPO Conference last Friday in Toronto!

What a privilege meeting our AACR & CIHR-ICR Scientist-Survivor Program co-sponsored Patient Advocates (L to R) Martina Wood, Carolyn Van, Dana Bellis and Megan Sewell in Chicago at the AACR Annual Meeting. Such incredible cancer advocacy being done by these 4 individuals! ⭐ @theaacr.bsky.social

Thrilled to share that applications for CIHR-ICR's 2025 Early Career Researcher (ECR) Workshop are now open! This is a fantastic professional development opportunity for #ECRs. Please share with your networks! Applications due: June 23, 2025 cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/53480.html

Congrats @daniel-decarvalho.bsky.social on your Gairdner Momentum Award! 🎉 www.gairdner.org/resource-hub...

Absolutely delighted to have opened the Preclinical Reproducibility in Immunotherapy through Multilaboratory Innovation and Discovery (PRIMED) Conference in Toronto last weekend. Such a fantastic initiative!

Each year, ICR hosts a Community Event with our IAB meetings. We had the pleasure of hosting our event at UBC last week with a focus on #PrecisionOncology. Such impactful research and powerful stories on this topic – thanks to everyone involved in the event and all that came to support!

So pleased to have joined the CIHR Institute of Cancer Research and the CIHR Institute of Genetics in hosting the Canadian Health Research Data Workshop in Vancouver last week, exploring key issues and opportunities for the health data ecosystem. bit.ly/43LCPRB

Last week, ICR co-hosted the Canadian Health Research Data Workshop with CIHR-IG and @genomecanada.bsky.social in Vancouver. What a successful event with important discussions about enhancing the health research data landscape. My gratitude to all of those in attendance!

What a pleasure meeting the CIHR Institute of Gender and Health (IGH) team at their office at SFU while the ICR team was in Vancouver! Thanks Dr. Kaida and team for being such great hosts! 😊

Yesterday, ICR wrapped up its "Bringing Biology to Cancer Survivorship" Workshop in Vancouver. Absolutely delighted to have hosted this interdisciplinary group of researchers and PWLLEs to discuss key issues in #CancerSurvivorship. Thank you to our incredible attendees for all of your insights!

Delighted to have hosted CIHR President Paul Hébert this past Friday at our ICR office as he “dropped in” on Toronto!

A warm congratulations to Dr. Jason Berman, one of our ICR Institute Advisory Board members, on receiving the King Charles III Coronation Medal for his outstanding contributions to healthcare. What an amazing achievement! 🏅 www.linkedin.com/posts/cheo-r...

The chaos in America’s scientific community could be Canada’s gain if we play our cards right, by John Bergeron, Kathleen Dickson and @stankutcher.sencanada.ca www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com #BrainGain

Had a great time visiting the WE-SPARK group for health and cancer research last Friday. Amazing multi and trans-disciplinary research talent across many faculties on the @uwindsor.bsky.social campus! Impressive leadership from Dr. Shanthi Johnson and Dr. Dora Cavallo-Medved. www.wesparkhealth.com

Congratulations @mmarra0630.bsky.social on this outstanding achievement!

Delighted to have hosted Dr. Costas Koumenis (@costas-koumenis.bsky.social) from UPenn as Visiting Professor here at @pmresearch-uhn.bsky.social, who described his outstanding work on FLASH Proton Radiotherapy and its potential impact! Thank you Dr. Koumenis for visiting us!

Delighted to host Dr. Marc Gunter from Imperial College London (UK) today at @pmresearch-uhn.bsky.social @uhntoronto.bsky.social! Thanks Dr. Gunter for visiting and delivering a fantastic seminar on "Obesity, Metabolic Dysfunction & Cancer: Epidemiology, Mechanisms and Opportunities for Prevention"