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 Araujo Vargas

Tatianny Paula Araújo Vargas

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Project: Rare Mutation Melanoma Trial with Encorafenib and Binimetinib

Carly Barron

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

Edward Chen

Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute

Project: Immune Modulation in Hippo Pathway Regulated Breast Tumour Microenvironments 

Massimo Di Iorio

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 Diaz Mejia

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

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

Ian Hirsch

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre

Project: Profiling of Cancer of Unknown Primary Site, Melanoma, Adnexal, Skin for Optimizing Immunotherapy

Thomas Kennedy

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

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

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

Amy Lu

The Hospital for Sick Children

Project: Describing limited English proficiency (LEP) in paediatric oncology

Diego Malon Giminez

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

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

Adi Nitzan-Luques

The Hospital for Sick Children

Project: Translational in vivo modeling to identify therapeutic opportunities for high-risk neuroblastoma

Daniel Palhares

Daniel Palhares

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Project: Stimulated Microbubble Radiation Enhancement Treatment in Head and Neck Cancer Patients

Jenny Peng

Jenny Peng

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre

Project: Understanding the gene expression profile of neuroendocrine carcinoma of genitourinary primaries: a pilot study

Mauricio Ribeiro

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

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

Marie-Philippe Saltiel

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre

Project: Improving the Transition to Practice Curriculym in the Medical Oncology Training Program

Amit Sharma

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

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

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

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

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

Justin Wang

Toronto Western Hospital

Project: Uncovering the epigenetic and transcriptomic biomarkers of response to radiotherapy in meningiomas

Yibo Xue

Yibo Xue

Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute

Project: Studying DNA damage networks in human cancer cells

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Rui Miguel Marques Bernardino

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Unravelling the potential of extracelular vesicles as biomarkers of intraductal and cribriform prostate cancer

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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

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Sanjeev Budhathoki

Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Project: Development of risk prediction models for early detection and prognosis of aerodigestive cancers

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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

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Julian Chavarriaga

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: miRNAs as potential circulating tumor markers for stratifying and surveilling small testicular masses

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Rania Chehade

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Project: Toward Immunotherapy in breast cancer brain metastases: PD-L1 expression and beyond

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Danielle Cuthbert

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Process Analysis for the HIMALAYAS Study: Cancer Survivor's Experience with a Supervised Cardio-Oncology Rehabilitation Program

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David Cyr

Mount Sinai Hospital
Project: Enhancing Prognostication in Colorectal Cancer: the Role of Clinico-pathologic and Molecular Features Beyond the TNM Staging System

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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

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Ahmed Elmotayam

Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Project: A New Therapeutic Strategy for Highly Lethal Small Cell Neuroendocrine Cancers 

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Abdul Rehman Farook

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Cancer cachexia and genotype correlations in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma

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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

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Sofia Genta

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: CP-101 and Atezolizumab in Patients with Advanced Solid TumorS to INterrogate the Gut Microbiota (CASSIN)

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Maru Gete

Mount Sinai Hospital
Project: Molecular Testing of Indeterminate Thyroid Nodules for Informed Surgical Management

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Samantha Hershenfeld

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Clinico-genetic risk stratification of limited stage follicular lymphoma

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Amanda Hird

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Project: Contemporary Risk of Bone Fractures Among Men with Advanced Prostate Cancer on Androgen Deprivation Therapy

Kyle

Kyle Juraschka

The Hospital for Sick Children
Project: Harnessing CRISPR to identify drivers of medulloblastoma metastasis

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Karineh Kazazian

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Indocyanine green (ICG) Guided Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Breast Cancer

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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

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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

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Irene Xie

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Identifying molecular vulnerabilities in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

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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

Federico Carini 

Mount Sinai Hospital
Project: Venous thromboembolism in hematologic malignancy and hematopoietic cell transplant patients

Douglas Cheung

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

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

David Cyr

Mount Sinai Hospital
Project: Clinicopathologic and Molecular Predictors of Outcomes Following Salvage Surgery for Locally Recurrent Rectal Cancer 

Alexandra Desnoyers

Alexandra Desnoyers

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Fragility Index of Approved Cancer Drugs 

grace_egan

Grace Egan

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Nuclear Hexokinase 2: Mechanism of Regulating Stemness in Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Robert Grant

Robert Grant

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Predicting Outcomes in Pancreatic Cancer from Clinical and Genomic Data using Machine Learning

Alexander Gregor

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

Keegan Guidolin

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Porphysomes for the intraoperative visualization of colorectal lymph node metastases

dumas

Dumas Guillaume

Mount Sinai Hospital
Project: The Impact of Critical Illness on Oncology Care Following Critical Care Survival

fyeza

Fyeza Hasan

The Hospital for Sick Children
Project: Children with Cancer as Participants in End-of-life-Research

Kyle

Kyle Juraschka

The Hospital for Sick Children
Project: Harnessing CRISPR to identify drivers of medulloblastoma metastasis 

kristen_mcalpine

Kristen McAlpine

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Comparison of OpeN VErsus RoboTic (CONVERT) Partial Nephrectomy Trial- a feasibility randomized control trial

Nick

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

Randy Van Ommeren

The Hospital for Sick Children
Project: Characterization of the metabolic drivers of grp3 medulloblastoma metastasis

Michael Taccone

Michael Taccone

The Hospital for Sick Children
Project: Mitochondrial Fission: Targeting the Achilles' Heel of Glioblastoma 

Abi Vijenthira

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

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

Zubair Bayat

Mount Sinai Hospital
Project: Toward Streamlining Colon Cancer Care

Oscar Calvillo

Oscar Calvillo

Toronto General Hospital
Project: Characterizing Heart And Mind health Post-chemotherapy In Women with early-stage breast cancer (CHAMPION)

alberto_hernando_calvo

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

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

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

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

David Cyr

Mount Sinai Hospital
Project: Clinicopathologic and Molecular Predictors of Outcomes Following Salvage Surgery for Locally Recurrent Rectal Cancer 

Alexandra Desnoyers

Alexandra Desnoyers

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Fragility Index of Approved Cancer Drugs 

Lawson Eng

Lawson Eng

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: ONCO-GEMINI: Oncology Continuum General Medicine Inpatient Initiative 

Carrillo Estrada

Carrillo Estrada

Mount Sinai Hospital
Project: Cardiac Outcomes in Pregnant Cancer Survivors: A Prospective Cohort Study

sofia_genta

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

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

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

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

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

Paulo Kayano

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre

Project: Impact of Proton Pump Inhibitors on prostate cancer diagnosis and outcomes 

Rachel Kim

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 

Trisan Knight

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

Jerry Ku

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Project: Adjuvant 5-aminolevulinic acid-based intraoperative photodynamic therapy of glioblastoma multiforme: A prospective pilot study

eyal_lebel

Eyal Lebel

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Clinical applications of free DNA in Multiple Myeloma 

bryan_li

Bryan Li

The Hospital for Sick Children
Project: High-throughput drug screening and development of in vivo drug models for pineoblastoma

Shelly Luu

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

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

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

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

Farshad Nassiri

Toronto Western Hospital
Project: Establishing the utility of a novel plasma-based biomarker to non invasively prognosticate meningiomas

Christopher Noel

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

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

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

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

Abdulazeez Salawu

Mount Sinai Hospital
Project: Circulating Tumor DNA Detection in Soft Tissue Sarcoma (DNATSAR)

Carols Stecca

Carlos Stecca

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Feasibly Integrating Epigenomic and Genomic Liquid Biopsy Biomarkers  

Michael Taccone

Michael Taccone

The Hospital for Sick Children
Project: Mitochondrial Fission: Targeting the Achilles' Heel of Glioblastoma 

Abi Vijenthira

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

Mathew Voisin 

Toronto Western Hospital
Project: Liquid biopsy of gliomas by absolute quantification of IDH mutation

pj_voon

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

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

Irene Xie

CIBC Capital Markets Hold’em for Life Oncology Fellow
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Identifying molecular vulnerabilities in pancreatic cancer 

zsolt_zador

Zsolt Zador

The Hospital for Sick Children
Project: Exploring the spectrum of cell identities and treatment vulnerabilities in K27M pediatric gliomas

Zubair Bayat

Zubair Bayat

Mount Sinai Hospital
Project: Toward Streamlining Colon Cancer Care 

Oscar Calvillo

Oscar Calvillo

Toronto General Hospital
Project: Characterizing Heart And Mind health Post-chemotherapy In Women with early-stage breast cancer (CHAMPION)

Vaibhav Gupta

Vaibhav Gupta

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Project: Development and external validation of a personalized model to predict survival in esophageal cancer patients 

Otto Hemminki

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

Paulo Kayano

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre

Project: Impact of Proton Pump Inhibitors on prostate cancer diagnosis and outcomes 

Shelly Luu

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

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

David Mealiea

Dave Mealiea

Mount Sinai Hospital
Project: Investigation and Design of Oncolytic Vaccinia Virus-Based Therapies in Colorectal Cancer

Ying Meng

Ying Meng

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Project: Liquid biopsy of brain tumours using MR-guided focused ultrasound-induced blood-brain barrier disruption 

Michelle Nadler

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

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

Farshad Nassiri

Toronto Western Hospital
Project: Establishing the utility of a novel plasma-based biomarker to non invasively prognosticate meningiomas 

Sarah Picardo

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

Jenna Spring

Mount Sinai Hospital
Project: Early Advance Care Planning in Hematologic Malignancies and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplants: A Pre-Post Pilot Study 

Carols Stecca

Carlos Stecca

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Project: Feasibly Integrating Epigenomic and Genomic Liquid Biopsy Biomarkers