OICR’s Drug Discovery Team is made up of 26 drug discovery scientists housed in state-of-art facilities with a mission to help Ontario’s researchers efficiently translate cancer related discoveries into novel oncology therapies. This team has “identified five of the most promising early stage oncology drug development projects in the province,” said Dr. Tom Hudson, the OICR’s president and scientific director. “OICR is pleased to support these Ontario-based research projects and we look forward to collaborating with our partners to help move them to the next stage of development,” he added.
The selected projects address a range of cancers, including hematological malignancies, triple negative breast cancer and colon cancer. They come from major institutions across Ontario and were selected from a province-wide call for proposals to identify promising oncology research that would benefit from OICR’s expertise in drug discovery.