Canadian Surgery Research Fund Recipients
2006
Dr. Angel Arnaout, University of Toronto
“A prognostic study of the combined expression of EGFR and cSrc in primary
breast cancers"
Dr. Saima Hassan, McGill University
"SDF-1 and CXCR4: Novel predictive plasma marker for breast cancer
metastasis and therapeutic target"
2005
Dr. Elijah Dixon, University of Calgary
“Pancreaticojejunostomy vs. Pancreaticogastrostomy Reconstruction
Following Pancreaticoduodenectomy: A Meta-Analysis”
Dr. Lynn Mikula, University of Toronto
“Functional Analysis of TPC: a Novel Gene Implicated in Pancreas Cancer”
2004
Dr. Paul Wales, University of Toronto
"Small Bowel Acellular Matrix as a Small Intestinal Substitute in a Porcine
Model"
Dr. Sam Wiseman, University of British Columbia
"Tissue Microarray Analysis of Genomic Instability Marker Expression,
Diagnostic Utility, and Prognostic Significance in Human Thyroid Carcinoma:
A Pilot Study"
2003
Dr. Moishe Liberman, McGill University
(Co-Applicants): Dr. D.S.Mulder & Dr. J.S.Sampalis) for
“Sonography after Thoracic Surgery (SATS)”
Dr. Belinda Hsi, University of Alberta
(Co-Applicants): Dr.N.M.Kneteman & Dr.J.Akabutu) for
“Hepatic Regeneration from Differentiated Human Umbilical Cord Blood
Cells”
2002
Dr. David R. Urbach, University of Toronto
“Measuring Dysphagia in Patients with Achalasia”
Dr. Sulaiman Nanji and Dr. James Shapiro, University of Alberta
“Tolerance in Experimental Islet Transplantation, Induced by Costimulatory
Blockade of the Novel ICOS-B7 Pathway, Using an Anti-ICOS Monoclonal
Antibody.”
2001
Dr. Geoffrey Porter, Dalhousie University
“Access to care for surgical treated malignancies”
Dr. David Evans, McGill University
“Evaluation of the Immunomodulatory effects of hypertonic saline in the
severely injured patient”
Canadian Surgery Research Fund Recipients
2000
Dr. Oliver Bathe, University of Calgary
“Tumor eradication using subsets of tumor-specific cytotoxic lymphocytes”
Dr. Daryl Gray, University of Western Ontario
“Nitric oxide synthase and heme oxygenase within the small intestine during
the systemic inflammatory response syndrome”
1999
Dr. Mark Basik, University of Montreal
“Detection of naked tumoral DNA in the blood of breast cancer patients”
Dr. Carmen A. Giacomantonio, Dalhousie University
“Development of a gene therapy model using plasmid DNA vector AG85A to
treat malignant melanoma”
Canadian Surgery Research Fund Recipients