Canadian Blood and Marrow Transplant Group
Cure Stems From Here
Benefits and Services
2011
2011 Otsuka/CBMTG Small Budget Research Grants Awarded
The Canadian Blood and Marrow Transplant Group is pleased to announce that the following members have been awarded the Otsuka/CBMTG Small Budget Research Grants 2011
Sarah Beattie, Doctoral Student at the University of Ottawa, School of Psychology for her research titled, “The Psychosocial Impact of Being a Caregiver and Care Recipient During a Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation”.
Dr. Janice Yeung, Clinical Pharmacy Specialist for her research titled, "Evaluation of a Voriconazole Dosing Adjustment Algorithm in the Management of Fungal Infections in Patients with Hematological Malignancies".
Dr. Elizabeth Krakow of Hopital Maisonneuve-Rosemont for her research titled “Does increasing immunosuppression prevent transplant associated lung disease triggered by viral respiratory infection”.
Dr. Shepphard, Blood and Marrow Transplant Fellow, University of Ottawa, for her research titled “The influence of genetic polymorphisms on the development of severe gastrointestinal complications during autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
Congratulations!
We wish to thank
Otsuka for their generous support of these awards. Also thank you to Dr. David Szwajcer
for leading this initiative and members who adjudicated the applications.
2011 Otsuka/CBMTG New Investigator Grant Awarded
We are pleased to announce that Geoff Cuvelier MD FRCPC, University of Manitoba Department of Pediatrics Manitoba Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, has been awarded the New Investigator Grant for his research titled, “Evaluation of the aspirin triggered lipoxin 15-epi-Lxa4 on survival in a murine model of lethal acute graft versus host disease”. Congratulations!
We wish to thank Otsuka for their generous support of this awards. Also thank you to Dr. David Szwajcer for leading this initiative and members who adjudicated the applications.
2010
2010 accepted Otsuka/CBMTG small budget research grants include:
"Autologous and allogeneic stem cell transplantation in the management of transformed indolent lymphoma" (Dr. John Kuruvilla, Princess Margaret Hospital)
"Prolifer Stem Assay: An improved method to measure stem cell proliferative potential" (Ms. Brenda Letcher, Canadian Blood Services)
"Filtering of Stem Cell Products: Is There a Significant Cell Loss?" (Dr. Kristjan Paulson, CancerCare Manitoba)
"Psychological distress, coping style and dyadic adjustments in patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplant and their spouses- moving towards psychosocial health and wellbeing: a longitudinal study" (Dr. Brenda Sabo, Dalhousie University)
2009
2009 accepted Otsuka/CBMTG small budget researchgrants include:
"Proteomics of Allogenic Blood or Marrow Grafts: A Pilot Study to Optimize Specimen Preparation for Mass Spectrometric Adjunct Studies for Patients in Prospective CBMTG Studies of Graft Source" (Dr. Harold Atkins, Ottawa Hospital)
"A prospective study of the multidimensional quality of life in pediatric HSCT recipients" (Dr. John Doyle, Hospital for Sick Children)
“Pertussis Problems: An investigation into pertussis vaccine immunogenicity after bone marrow transplantation in pediatric patients" (Dr. Conrad Fernandez, IWK Health Centre)
“Long-term cryopreservation of hematopoietic stem cells for autologous transplantation" (Dr. Donna Hogge, Vancouver General Hospital)
“Preclinical development of a natural killer cell line KHYG-1 as a novel therapeutic agent for high risk AML" (Dr. Armand Keating, Princess Margaret Hospital)
CBMTG would like to thank Otsuka for their support through an unrestricted educational grant.
