Hold’em for Life Oncology Fellowships
Hold’em for Life Charity Challenge has made a generous and transformative commitment to oncology research and education at the University of Toronto’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine and our partner hospitals.
The Hold’em for Life Oncology Fellowships are open to University of Toronto residents and clinical fellows pursuing cancer research at any of the Faculty’s nine fully affiliated teaching hospitals. You can read more about the fellowships and Hold'em for Life Charity Challenge here.
For information on how to apply for a fellowship, visit the awards page.
There have been over 110 Hold’em for Life Oncology Fellowships awarded to date. Below is an overview of each Hold’em Fellow and their research.
Hold’em for Life Oncology Fellows:
Tatianny Paula Araújo Vargas
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Project: Rare Mutation Melanoma Trial with Encorafenib and Binimetinib
Carly Barron
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Cross tumor-comparison of the tumor immune microenvironment, peripheral immune signatures and response to immunotherapy as a novel conceptual model in aerodigestive tumors
Edward Chen
Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Project: Immune Modulation in Hippo Pathway Regulated Breast Tumour Microenvironments
Massimo Di Iorio
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Exercise and Rehabilitation for People with Cancer: A Survey of Canadian Oncology Residents’ Knowledge and Awareness of Practice Guidelines
Nely Mercy Díaz Mejía
CBRE Hold'em for Life Fellow,
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: A retrospective review of the use of GCSF for patients with GU receiving chemotherapy during the COVID-19 pandemic and implications for the future
Mitchell Elliot
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Acquired pharmacologic vulnerabilities in cyclin dependent kinase 4/6 (CDK4/6) inhibitor-resistant hormone receptor positive breast
Ian Hirsch
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Profiling of Cancer of Unknown Primary Site, Melanoma, Adnexal, Skin for Optimizing Immunotherapy
Thomas Kennedy
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Project: Detection of Circulating Tumour DNA before and after Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy for Confirmed and Suspected Early Lung Cancer (SABR-DETECT)
Colleen Kerrigan
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Project: Reflex MammaPrint and BluePrint testing on breast cancer core biopsies: Impact on tumor phenotype classification, perceived provider utility, and process implementation
Jethro Kwong
Silvercore Hold'em for Life Oncology Fellow,
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Development of an early warning system for non-muscle invasive bladder cancer recurrence and progression using time-series forecasting with artificial intelligence
Amy Lu
The Hospital for Sick Children
Project: Describing limited English proficiency (LEP) in paediatric oncology
Diego Malon Gimenez
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Incidence, prevalence, risk factors and impact of fatty liver disease in metastatic HR+/HER2− breast cancer patients in first line of treatment with Aromatase Inhibitors and CDK 4/6
Abhenil Mittal
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Does systemic inflammation and sarcopenia impact quality of life and survival in patients with esophageal cancer?
Adi Nitzan-Luques
The Hospital for Sick Children
Project: Translational in vivo modeling to identify therapeutic opportunities for high-risk neuroblastoma
Daniel Palhares
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Project: Stimulated Microbubble Radiation Enhancement Treatment in Head and Neck Cancer Patients
Jenny Peng
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Understanding the gene expression profile of neuroendocrine carcinoma of genitourinary primaries: a pilot study
Mauricio Ribeiro
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: The impact of AIRE single-nucleotide polymorphisms on the incidence and severity of immune-related adverse events in melanoma patients treated with anti-PD-1-based regimens
Erick Saldanha
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Use of targeted therapies in patients with advanced thyroid cancer: efficacy and safety outcomes from a real-world genomically profiled cohort
Marie-Philippe Saltiel
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Improving the Transition to Practice Curriculym in the Medical Oncology Training Program
Amit Sharma
Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Project: Deciphering the role of the Formin / Wnt-PCP axis in breast cancer cell motility and Metastasis
Mariska Sie
The Hospital for Sick Children
Project: DNA-damage response targeting and epigenetic priming to overcome radio-resistance in very high-risk medulloblastoma
Radovan Vasic
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Evaluation of plasma minimal residual disease and T cell clonal expansion to guide adjuvant immunotherapy in Stage III NSCLC patients
Ana Veneziani
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Phase I Study of Autologous Epithelial Ovarian Cancer (EOC) Cells Containing Lentivirus Engineering Expression of IL-12
Kevin Wang
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Comprehensive genomic, immunologic and metabolomic characterization of the tumour, host, and gut microbiome interaction in hepatocellular carcinoma
Justin Wang
Toronto Western Hospital
Project: Uncovering the epigenetic and transcriptomic biomarkers of response to radiotherapy in meningiomas
Yibo Xue
Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Project: Studying DNA damage networks in human cancer cells
Rui Miguel Marques Bernardino
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Unravelling the potential of extracelular vesicles as biomarkers of intraductal and cribriform prostate cancer
Adom Bondzi-Simpson
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Project: Integrating equity into quality metrics for colorectal cancer care: an Analysis of wait times for curative-intent surgery
Sanjeev Budhathoki
Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Project: Development of risk prediction models for early detection and prognosis of aerodigestive cancers
Alberto Hernando Calvo
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: External validation of the VIGEX gene-expression signature as a novel predictive biomarker for immuno-oncology (IO) treatments
Julian Chavarriaga
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: miRNAs as potential circulating tumor markers for stratifying and surveilling small testicular masses
Rania Chehade
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Project: Toward Immunotherapy in breast cancer brain metastases: PD-L1 expression and beyond
Danielle Cuthbert
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Process Analysis for the HIMALAYAS Study: Cancer Survivor's Experience with a Supervised Cardio-Oncology Rehabilitation Program
David Cyr
Mount Sinai Hospital
Project: Enhancing Prognostication in Colorectal Cancer: the Role of Clinico-pathologic and Molecular Features Beyond the TNM Staging System
Anirban Das
The Hospital for Sick Children
Project: Gliomas with DNA-replication repair deficiency: How the cell-of-origin, genomic, and epigenetic landscape impact immune-directed therapeutic vulnerability
Ahmed Elmotayam
Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Project: A New Therapeutic Strategy for Highly Lethal Small Cell Neuroendocrine Cancers
Abdul Rehman Farook
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Cancer cachexia and genotype correlations in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma
Jesus Fuentes Antras
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Tumor-informed ctDNA dynamics in HR+/HER2- metastatic breast cancer patients receiving first-line CDK4/6 inhibitors
Sofia Genta
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: CP-101 and Atezolizumab in Patients with Advanced Solid TumorS to INterrogate the Gut Microbiota (CASSIN)
Maru Gete
Mount Sinai Hospital
Project: Molecular Testing of Indeterminate Thyroid Nodules for Informed Surgical Management
Samantha Hershenfeld
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Clinico-genetic risk stratification of limited stage follicular lymphoma
Amanda Hird
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Project: Contemporary Risk of Bone Fractures Among Men with Advanced Prostate Cancer on Androgen Deprivation Therapy
Kyle Juraschka
The Hospital for Sick Children
Project: Harnessing CRISPR to identify drivers of medulloblastoma metastasis
Karineh Kazazian
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Indocyanine green (ICG) Guided Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Breast Cancer
Colleen Kerrigan
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Project: Reflex MammaPrint and BluePrint testing on breast cancer core biopsies: Impact on tumor phenotype classification, perceived provider utility, and process implementation
Ravi Kumar
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Characterizing the impact of using novel patient-centered pathology reports in clinical practice
Jethro Kwong
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Development of an early warning system for non-muscle invasive bladder cancer recurrence and progression using time-series forecasting with artificial intelligence
Lucy Ma
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Next-Generation Sequencing in Advanced Thyroid Cancers: Clinical Application and Impact on Patient Outcomes
Louise McLoughlin
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Explainable Artificial Intelligence in the diagnosis of Muscle Invasive Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma
Gordon Taylor Moffat
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Optimizing the Quality of Surveillance in Patients with Completely Resected Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumours
Consolacion Molto Valiente
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Machine learning to estimate the real-world risk of 3-year disease free survival in patients with residual, triple negative breast cancer after neoadjuvant chemotherapy
Daniel Palhares
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Project: Pilot Investigation of Ultrasound Cell Death Imaging and Spectroscopy as Early Indicators of Response to Radiation Treatment in Prostate Cancer
Sabrina Piedimonte
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Predicting Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Advanced Ovarian Cancer Using the Rate of Elimination of CA-125 (KELIM Score) and Chemo-Response Score
Nikhil Raghuram
The Hospital for Sick Children
Project: Targeting EZH2 in EBTs: Role of epigenetic modifiers in modulating pluripotency
Gabriel Revon-Riviere
The Hospital for Sick Children
Project: Characterization of MUC16/CA125 expression in pediatric in pediatric soft-tissue sarcomas and pilot study of a first-in-class MUC16/CA125 T-cell engager bispecific antibody
Enrique Sanz Garcia
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Study of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) kinetics in immuno-oncology (IO-KIN)
Alina Selega
Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Project: Detecting epithelial-mesenchymal transition states in highly multiplexed imaging data
Mariska Sie
The Hospital for Sick Children
Project: Epigenetic Priming to Overcome Radio-Resistance in Very High-Risk Medulloblastoma
Pavlina Spiliopoulou
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Immune Response to COVID-19 Vaccine in immunotherapy (IO) and non-IO Treated Cancer Patients (VIVACIOUS)
Henry Miew Hoon Su
Toronto General Hospital
Project: Age Related Clonal Hematopoiesis and Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease in Cancer Survivors
Michael S. Taccone
The Hospital for Sick Children
Project: Mitochondrial Fission: Targeting the Achilles’ Heel of Glioblastoma
Raj Vikesh Tiwari
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Free/Total PSA ratio as a biomarker for PSMA PET positivity in patients with biochemical recurrence post prostatectomy
Randy Van Ommeren
The Hospital for Sick Children
Project: Characterization of the metabolic drivers of grp3 medulloblastoma metastasis
Richard Walker
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Project: Learning Curves and Volume-Outcome Relationships in Robot-Assisted Surgical Oncology
Irene Xie
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Identifying molecular vulnerabilities in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
Jeffrey Zuccato
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Lung adenocarcinoma brain metastasis prediction and non-invasive diagnosis using methylation signatures in tissue and plasma
Marie Alt
Mount Sinai Hospital
Project: Optimizing Sexual Health and Emotional Well-Being got Breast Cancer Patients and Survivors
Federico Carini
Mount Sinai Hospital
Project: Venous thromboembolism in hematologic malignancy and hematopoietic cell transplant patients
Douglas Cheung
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Seeing Clearly: A Decision Analysis of MRI, PSMA PET/CT, and Biomarker Testing in Early Prostate Cancer Detection
Sarah Cohen-Gogo
The Hospital for Sick Children
Project: PICTURE: PARP Inhibitors and Chemotherapy for patients harbouring TUmours with homologous REcombination repair deficiency: a phase II pilot study
David Cyr
Mount Sinai Hospital
Project: Clinicopathologic and Molecular Predictors of Outcomes Following Salvage Surgery for Locally Recurrent Rectal Cancer
Alexandra Desnoyers
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Fragility Index of Approved Cancer Drugs
Grace Egan
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Nuclear Hexokinase 2: Mechanism of Regulating Stemness in Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Robert Grant
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Predicting Outcomes in Pancreatic Cancer from Clinical and Genomic Data using Machine Learning
Alexander Gregor
Toronto General Hospital
Project: Enhancing sentinel lymph node mapping in lung cancer surgery using a novel liposome-based dual-modality nanoparticle
Keegan Guidolin
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Porphysomes for the intraoperative visualization of colorectal lymph node metastases
Dumas Guillaume
Mount Sinai Hospital
Project: The Impact of Critical Illness on Oncology Care Following Critical Care Survival
Fyeza Hasan
The Hospital for Sick Children
Project: Children with Cancer as Participants in End-of-life-Research
Kyle Juraschka
The Hospital for Sick Children
Project: Harnessing CRISPR to identify drivers of medulloblastoma metastasis
Kristen McAlpine
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Comparison of OpeN VErsus RoboTic (CONVERT) Partial Nephrectomy Trial- a feasibility randomized control trial
Nick Meti
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Machine Learning to estimate risk of 3-year disease-free survival in patients with residual, HER2-positive breast cancer after neoadjuvant chemotherapy and HER2- targeted therapy.
Randy Van Ommeren
The Hospital for Sick Children
Project: Characterization of the metabolic drivers of grp3 medulloblastoma metastasis
Michael Taccone
The Hospital for Sick Children
Project: Mitochondrial Fission: Targeting the Achilles' Heel of Glioblastoma
Abi Vijenthira
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Application of the Generalizable Frailty Index using population-based health administrative data in older patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), with further sensitivity analyses using a smaller cohort with detailed pathologic and cancer -specific data
Irene Xie
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Identifying molecular vulnerabilities in pancreatic cancer
Marie Alt
Mount Sinai Hospital
Project: Optimizing Sexual Health and Emotional Well-Being got Breast Cancer Patients and Survivors
Zubair Bayat
Mount Sinai Hospital
Project: Toward Streamlining Colon Cancer Care
Oscar Calvillo
Toronto General Hospital
Project: Characterizing Heart And Mind health Post-chemotherapy In Women with early-stage breast cancer (CHAMPION)
Alberto Hernando Calvo
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: External validation of the VIGEX gene-expression signature as a novel predictive biomarker for immuneoncology (IO) treatments
Hanbo Chen
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Project: Towards a Better Therapeutic Ratio: The Role of Magnetic Resonance-Linear Accelerator (MR-Linac) in Radiotherapy
Douglas Cheung
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Seeing Clearly: A Decision Analysis of MRI, PSMA PET/CT, and Biomarker Testing in Early Prostate Cancer Detection
Sarah Cohen-Gogo
The Hospital for Sick Children
Project: PICTURE: PARP Inhibitors and Chemotherapy for patients harbouring TUmours with homologous REcombination repair deficiency: a phase II pilot study
David Cyr
Mount Sinai Hospital
Project: Clinicopathologic and Molecular Predictors of Outcomes Following Salvage Surgery for Locally Recurrent Rectal Cancer
Alexandra Desnoyers
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Fragility Index of Approved Cancer Drugs
Lawson Eng
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: ONCO-GEMINI: Oncology Continuum General Medicine Inpatient Initiative
Carrillo Estrada
Mount Sinai Hospital
Project: Cardiac Outcomes in Pregnant Cancer Survivors: A Prospective Cohort Study
Sofia Genta
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Immune Resistance Interrogation Study (IRIS): evaluating genomic, transcriptomic, epigenetic, immunophenotypic and radiomic profiles associated with primary and acquired resistance to PD1/PD-L1 targeting agents.
Rachel Glicksman
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Project: Early surrogate measures and predictors of outcome for intermediate risk prostate cancer patients treated with ablative therapies
Robert Grant
SmartCentres Hold’em for Life Oncology Fellow
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Predicting Outcomes in Pancreatic Cancer from Clinical and Genomic Data using Machine Learning
Alexander Gregor
Toronto General Hospital
Project: Enhancing sentinel lymph node mapping in lung cancer surgery using a novel liposome-based dual-modality nanoparticle
Keegan Guidolin
CMCC/Atrium Hold’em for Life Oncology Fellow
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Porphysomes for the intraoperative visualization of colorectal lymph node metastases
Paulo Kayano
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Impact of Proton Pump Inhibitors on prostate cancer diagnosis and outcomes
Rachel Kim
CMCC/Atrium Hold’em for Life Oncology Fellow
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Characterization of endometrioid carcinoma of the endometrium: molecular subtype assignment to infirm treatment decisions and improve outcomes
Tristan Knight
RBC Hold'em for Life Oncology Fellow
The Hospital for Sick Children
Project: Re-envisioning the autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplant as immunotherapy
Jerry Ku
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Project: Adjuvant 5-aminolevulinic acid-based intraoperative photodynamic therapy of glioblastoma multiforme: A prospective pilot study
Eyal Lebel
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Clinical applications of free DNA in Multiple Myeloma
Bryan Li
The Hospital for Sick Children
Project: High-throughput drug screening and development of in vivo drug models for pineoblastoma
Shelly Luu
BMO Hold'em for Life Oncology Fellow
Mount Sinai Hospital
Project: Investigation of the Polo-like Kinas 4 Interactome as a Novel Therapeutic Target in Gastric Cancer
Wanda Marini
Katie Hoffman Hold’em for Life Oncology Fellow
Mount Sinai Hospital
Project: The Role of Hedgehog Signaling in Basal-Like Breast Cancer and the Tumor Microenvironment
Kristen McAlpine
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Establishing national benchmarks and quality improvement priorities for the surgical care of kidney cancer patients in Canada
Michelle Nadler
Dream Hold’em for Life Oncology Fellow
Women's College Hospital
Project: What are the determinants of breast cancer screening practices for women aged 40-49?
Farshad Nassiri
Toronto Western Hospital
Project: Establishing the utility of a novel plasma-based biomarker to non invasively prognosticate meningiomas
Christopher Noel
Levinsky Waratah Hold’em for Life Oncology Fellowship
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Project: Symptom Burden as a Predictor of Emergency Room Visits and Unplanned Hospitalizations in Patients with Head and Neck Cancer
Sarah Picardo
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Evaluation of the tumour-adjacent microbiota in patients with metastatic genitourinary (GU) cANcers: the URinary and fecal microBiome (URBAN)
Khaled Ramadan
Silverberg Hold’em for Life Oncology Fellow
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Photodynamic Therapy during in vivo lung perfusion for treatment of lung metastases
April Rose
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Characterizing mechanisms of response and resistance to binimetinib and encorafenib in advanced cancers with non- V600E BRAF mutations: correlative analyses of the BEAVER trail
Abdulazeez Salawu
Mount Sinai Hospital
Project: Circulating Tumor DNA Detection in Soft Tissue Sarcoma (DNATSAR)
Carlos Stecca
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Feasibly Integrating Epigenomic and Genomic Liquid Biopsy Biomarkers
Michael Taccone
The Hospital for Sick Children
Project: Mitochondrial Fission: Targeting the Achilles' Heel of Glioblastoma
Abi Vijenthira
The Gerald Schwartz & Heather Reisman Foundation Hold'em For Life Oncology Fellow
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Application of the Generalizable Frailty Index using population-based health administrative data in older patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), with further sensitivity analyses using a smaller cohort with detailed pathologic and cancer-specific data
Mathew Voisin
Toronto Western Hospital
Project: Liquid biopsy of gliomas by absolute quantification of IDH mutation
Pei Jye Voon
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Measurement of psychometric properties of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy – Immune Checkpoint Modulators (FACT-ICM) health related quality of life tool in patients treated with durvalumab and oleclumab in various solid tumors
Geoff Watson
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Evaluating the Integrative Role of Regulatory T Cells, Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells, Inflammatory Cytokines and Neutrophil-Lymphocyte Ratio as Biomarkers of Response and Toxicity in Patients with Advanced Stage Cancer Treated with Pembrolizumab
Irene Xie
CIBC Capital Markets Hold’em for Life Oncology Fellow
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Identifying molecular vulnerabilities in pancreatic cancer
Zsolt Zador
The Hospital for Sick Children
Project: Exploring the spectrum of cell identities and treatment vulnerabilities in K27M pediatric gliomas
Zubair Bayat
Mount Sinai Hospital
Project: Toward Streamlining Colon Cancer Care
Oscar Calvillo
Toronto General Hospital
Project: Characterizing Heart And Mind health Post-chemotherapy In Women with early-stage breast cancer (CHAMPION)
Vaibhav Gupta
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Project: Development and external validation of a personalized model to predict survival in esophageal cancer patients
Otto Hemminki
SmartCentres Hold’em for Life Oncology Fellow
Mount Sinai Hospital
Project: Transforming care for high-risk muscle-invasive bladder cancer using fast-tracked new MRI techniques and radiomics to decrease time to cystectomy
Paulo Kayano
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Impact of Proton Pump Inhibitors on prostate cancer diagnosis and outcomes
Shelly Luu
BMO Hold'em for Life Oncology Fellow
Mount Sinai Hospital
Project: Investigation of the Polo-like Kinas 4 Interactome as a Novel Therapeutic Target in Gastric Cancer
Wanda Marini
Katie Hoffman Hold’em for Life Oncology Fellow
Mount Sinai Hospital
Project: The Role of Hedgehog Signaling in Basal-Like Breast Cancer and the Tumor Microenvironment
Dave Mealiea
Mount Sinai Hospital
Project: Investigation and Design of Oncolytic Vaccinia Virus-Based Therapies in Colorectal Cancer
Ying Meng
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Project: Liquid biopsy of brain tumours using MR-guided focused ultrasound-induced blood-brain barrier disruption
Michelle Nadler
Dream Hold’em for Life Oncology Fellow
Women's College Hospital
Project: What are the determinants of breast cancer screening practices for women aged 40-49?
Gregory Nason
CentreCourt Hold’em for Life Oncology Fellow
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Comparison of OpeN VErsus RoboTic (CONVERT) Partial Nephrectomy Trial- a feasibility randomized control trial
Farshad Nassiri
Toronto Western Hospital
Project: Establishing the utility of a novel plasma-based biomarker to non invasively prognosticate meningiomas
Sarah Picardo
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Evaluation of the tumour-adjacent microbiota in patients with metastatic genitourinary (GU) cANcers: the URinary and fecal microBiome (URBAN)
Jenna Spring
Mount Sinai Hospital
Project: Early Advance Care Planning in Hematologic Malignancies and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplants: A Pre-Post Pilot Study
Carlos Stecca
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Feasibly Integrating Epigenomic and Genomic Liquid Biopsy Biomarkers