2023

This conference recognizes and promotes the excellent cancer research within the province and provides valuable learning and networking opportunities for the participants. The conference will include keynote lectures, presentations from other researchers and poster sessions featuring the work of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.

Purpose

Scientific conferences often act as a welcomed source of motivation for clinicians and scientists to come together and build a translational application that can be rapidly progressed to the clinics. Although there are large international cancer conferences such as the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) conferences, they often fail to connect people that work within a local neighborhood. Towards this, the Saskatchewan Cancer Research Conference (SCRC) directly aims to bring all basic scientists and clinicians within the province of Saskatchewan to one place in a single event. We expect that this annual conference will serve as a valuable networking and learning event for students, physicians and scientists that are driven towards one goal - finding breakthrough therapeutics.

Benefit to student and trainees

Beyond hearing inspiring stories, we learn how others solved problems similar to ours, which may help move us past the roadblock in our own research. The students and trainees will have the opportunity to share their research findings with others in their field, learn what others in the field are doing. This can also lead to new ideas that can lead to new opportunities for collaborative efforts. In presenting their work students and trainees will a) Grow as a researcher and presenter; b) Obtain feedback on their research; c) Meet and get to know their peers; and d) Gain visibility in their field.

There was a poster presentation competition with prizes for trainees.

Poster winners were as follows:

Undergraduate/Early MSc Students, tie for first place, two students will split the $300 prize:

Breanne Bevelander- $150 - (Supervisor: Dr Dean Chamberlain, Cancer Cluster)

Adopting techniques from modular tissue engineering to improve PDX models of breast and ovarian cancer

Anton Demitriev - $150 – (Supervisor: Dr Franco Vizeacoumar, Cancer Cluster)

Identifying synthetic dosage lethal interactions of MEMO1 in lung cancer

MSc/PhD Graduate Student, First Place ($300): 

Jared Price - $300 – (Supervisor: Dr Franco Vizeacoumar, Cancer Cluster)

Exploring Therapeutic Potential of Synthetic Dosage Lethal Interactions of Telomerase

MSc/PhD Graduate Student, Second Place ($200):

Ashley Sutherland - $200 - (Supervisor: Dr. Ron Geyer, Biochemistry)

Arming T cells with tumour-specific antibody through metabolic glycoengineering for targeted cell killing

MSc/PhD Graduate Student, Third Place ($100):

Mobina Sharifi - $100 - (Supervisor: Dr Franco Vizeacoumar, Cancer Cluster)

The best gene candidate for treating neuroendocrine prostate cancer

Postdoctoral Fellow, First Place ($100):

Jamsad Mannuthodikayil - $100 – (Supervisor:  Dr Maruti Uppalapati)

Advancing Precision Cancer Therapies through Direct Protein-Drug Conjugate Discovery
   

 L to R: Dr. Anderson, Breanne Bevelander, Anton Dmitriev, Ashely Sutherland, Jared Price, Jamsad Mannuthodikayil

not shown: Mobina Sharifi

Registration is free and lunch is provided!

If you have any questions about the Saskatchewan Cancer Research Conference, contact:

Lori Amson: phone (306)966-7011; email lori.amson@saskcancer.ca
Sheila Ash: phone (306)966-7040; email sheila.ash@saskcancer.ca

Organizing Committee

Dr. Franco Vizeacoumar (Co-Chair), SCA,Cancer Cluster

Dr. Dean Chamberlain (Co-Chair), SCA,Cancer Cluster