Teaching assistant Marisa Market helps first-year biology students Emily Laughland, Tanja Spasojevic and Brenda Lao assemble models of genetic material in a lab on cell division.
Students Hussein Hammoud and Marisa Market have helped to develop a blended learning approach to biology labs.
The Seeds4Hope Community Seminar Series will highlight the impact of local cancer research grants.
UWindsor biology professor and WCRG Scientific Director Dr. Lisa Porter, WCRG Clinical Director and Medical Oncologist of Windsor Regional Hospital's Cancer Program Dr. Caroline Hamm, and Caesars Windsor CEO Kevin Laforet at the launch of PASSPORTS: Bridging Research and Hope.
The collaborative efforts of UWindsor researchers, local hospitals and community supporters reached another milestone Monday as the Windsor Cancer Research Group (WCRG) launched PASSPORTS: Bridging Research and Hope at Windsor Regional Hospital’s Cancer Centre.
UWindsor biology professor and WCRG Scientific Director Lisa Porter and Dr. Caroline Hamm, WCRG Clinical Director and Medical Oncologist for Windsor Regional Hospital’s Cancer Program, were joined by Kevin Laforet, CEO of Caesars Windsor, who presented a $25,000 cheque as seed money for the program.
While many men are growing moustaches this month to raise funds for research on prostate cancer, a biology professor is gearing up to launch a new study aimed at better understanding how it spreads.
During an event yesterday to announce new seed funding for UWindsor cancer researchers, biochemistry professor Michael Boffa quipped that he usually has good ideas “coming out of his ears.”
“The problem is getting these ideas off the ground and finding the funding to make them happen,” he said.
