PANTHER – A multi-disciplinary grant for Princess Margaret Cancer Centre

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, by partnering with Vancouver Prostate Centre, has been awarded the inaugural Prostate Cancer Movember Team Grant titled “PANTHER: The Prostate Cancer Canada Program Project in Targeting Aggressive and Lethal Cancers” for 5 million dollars over 5 years starting July 1, 2013.

This is the only Movember Team Grant awarded this year. It encourages collaboration between researchers and institutions. After an extensive peer-review process, only one grant was awarded to UBC, PMCC-UToronto, Memorial University and Dalhousie University. At Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, this grant worth $1.5 million over five years will fund basic science through to clinical trials, and support trainees in the PMCC Prostate Cancer Research Program.

Congratulations to Dr. Robert Bristow and the following researchers at Princess Margaret who are involved in this project:

Admin Lead: Ralph Buttyan-VPC

Training Core Lead: Anthony Joshua-PMCC

Scientific Advisory Board: Padraig Warde-PMCC, Shabhir Alibhai-PMCC, Martin Gleave-VPC, Kim Chi-VPC, Neil Fleshner-PMCC

Project 1: Stemness/EMT and Enzalutamide Resistance
PMCC Researchers: Mathieu Lupien

Project 2: Neuroendocrine Prostate Cancer Drivers

Project 3:  Stress Adaptions and Resistance
PMCC Researchers: Brad Wouters, Anthony Joshua, Ian Tannock

Project 4: Radioresistance and Cell Plasticity
Lead: Rob Bristow-PMCC
PMCC Researchers: Neil Fleshner, Michael Milosevic, Marianne Koritzinsky, Theo van der Kwast, Ian Tannock