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Prestigious U.S. grant to advance viral therapy for brain cancer


November 20, 2013

Dr. John Bell has received the 2013 Investigator Award from the Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy, a highly-competitive $500,000 grant awarded to a single scientist / team from the U.S. or Canada. The grant will enable Dr. Bell and his colleagues to develop a manufacturing process for a novel cancer-fighting virus (called Chimeric Maraba), which has been shown to be particularly safe and effective in animal models of brain cancer.

Partners on the grant include Drs. David Stojdl from CHEO / uOttawa, Dr. Andrea McCart from the University Health Network / UofT and Dr. Lawton Stubbert from OHRI / uOttawa.

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