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Anil Kapoor Research Grant
Chair, CUASF Scientific The award recipients this year were:
Council
Hamilton, ON Mads Daugaard – University of British Columbia
VAR2-armed CAR T cells for treatment of muscle-
invasive bladder cancer
he CUASF would like to thank all the committee
Tmembers for their dedication and time to review all
our grant applications. Madhuri Koti – Queen’s University
Investigating sex differences in tumor-
CUASF Early Investigator associated B cells to improve response to BCG
Research Scholarship immunotherapy in non-muscle-invasive bladder
cancer
The award recipients this year were:
Girish Kulkarni – UHN Princess Margaret Cancer
Adam Kinnaird – University of Alberta Lawson Health Research Institute
Assessing F-PSMA-1007 positron emission Explainable artificial intelligence in the diagnosis
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tomography and magnetic resonance imaging of muscle-invasive upper tract urothelial
in the primary staging of prostate cancer carcinoma
Wassim Kassouf – McGill University Health Centre
Christopher Doiron – Queen’s University The role of STING agonist to overcome resistance
A randomized pilot study of a novel group-based of the combination therapy of radiation plus
pelvic floor physiotherapy intervention versus anti-PDL1 in muscle-invasive bladder cancer
individualized pelvic floor physiotherapy in female
interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome patients
Denis J. Dupre – Dalhousie University
Jeffrey Campbell – Western University Analysis of the synergistic properties
Lawson Health Research Institute of compounds from cannabis with
The evolving role of botulinum neurotoxin as a chemotherapeutic drugs in bladder cancer
treatment for erectile dysfunction models
CUASF – Bladder Cancer Canada Research Grant:
Andrea Kokorovic – University of Montreal To be announced in early 2022
Evaluation and improvement of sexual function
outcomes in Canadian women with bladder KCRNC-KCC
cancer
Research Grant
Thomas Skinner – Dalhousie University The award recipients this year were:
Clinical trial of a novel renal cooling device Kristen McAlpine – University of Toronto
designed to eliminate warm ischemia during
kidney transplantation surgery The use of machine learning to personalize the
care of patients with small renal masses
CUASF Early Investigator Research Scholarship Deadline: March 1, 2022
Brooke Wilson – University of Toronto
CUA-SIU International Global circulating free DNA methylation in
Scholarship Program metastatic renal cell carcinoma patients
The award recipients this year were: (GOLDEN study)
Rami Fadi Raad – l’Université de Montréal
KCRNC-KCC Kidney Cancer Research Grant Deadline:
To be announced in early 2022
CUASF-CMSHC Grant
The award recipient this year was:
Imad Matta – Centre hospitalier de l’Université de
Montréal, Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal Luke Witherspoon
University of British Columbia
Development of novel collagenase
CUA-SIU International Scholarship Program Deadline: April 1, 2022
CUASF-CMSHC Grant Deadline: March 1, 2022
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