Tag: Cancer

World’s Longest Hockey Game moving cancer research closer to goal

This year's World's Longest Hockey Game is the seventh edition of the event, which has been supporting cancer research in Alberta since 2003. (Photo: Mandy Kostiuk, 2011)

Reading Time: 5 minutes Annual fundraising effort to support clinical trial of precision drug developed at U of A

Collaboration key to solving medicine’s thorniest problems

Pharmacy researcher Khaled Barakat's research involves creating computer models to help develop potential new treatments for everything from hepatitis C and cancer to COVID-19. Barakat says the lessons he learned in his two years as a post-doctoral researcher in Michael Houghton's lab have served him well as he heads his own research group at the U of A. (Photo: Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences)

Reading Time: 5 minutes For Khaled Barakat, a focus on teamwork and patient needs has led to breakthroughs in the search for cancer therapies, antivirals and safer drugs

Landmark research could lead to better understanding of diseases

Michael Hendzel (right) co-led a study that revealed the gel-like nature of chromatin, the complex package of DNA and proteins contained within the nucleus of our cells. The researchers say the discovery could lead to better understanding of diseases like cancer. (Photo: Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry; taken pre-COVID-19)

Reading Time: 4 minutes Researchers have found an answer to a fundamental question that has eluded scientists since the discovery of DNA

Website provides resources, support for LGBTQ2+ cancer patients

U of A educator Amanda Bolderston (centre), Evan Taylor from the University of Fraser Valley (right), and Meghan McInnis from Queen's University launched the Queering Cancer website to help close an information gap in resources and services tailored to LGBTQ2+ people. (Photo: Supplied)

Reading Time: 3 minutes U of A faculty educator and two collaborators saw a need and worked to create a supportive space

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