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Interested in using single cell technologies to unravel the molecular origins and evolution of ovarian cancer?

We are looking for a graduate student! More details here 👇

Couldn't be prouder of Deanne Nixie Miao for receiving this award. So well deserved!

Interested in single cell analyses and cancer biology?

Check out this exciting graduate opportunity👇

👏 Congrats to PROMISE trainee Deanne Nixie Miao on receiving the 2025 Vanier Scholarship! She studies cisplatin, a cancer drug causing hearing loss in up to 80% of patients. Using single-cell tech, she aims to predict & prevent this side effect. #CCMB #CHRIM #CancerResearch

👏 Congrats to PROMISE trainee Johnathon Lucas on receiving
Research Training Award (Masters) from Canadian Cancer Society! His project aims to understand how STAT5 promotes survival, proliferation and therapy-resistance in T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. #CCMB #CHRIM #CancerResearch

Exciting announcement! ✨ Applications for the PROMISE Madox’s Warriors Graduate Student Award open soon. More details to come! #CCMB #CHRIM #AYAcancer #CancerResearch

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Every day, families across Canada face the unimaginable. Let’s raise awareness, fund research, and support the children and families. 💛 #ChildhoodCancerAwareness #GoGold

📅 Mark your calendars! The 14th Annual DREAM Symposium will be on Nov 13, 2025, and the DREAM Trainee Day will be Nov 12. Abstracts due Sept 12. More info and abstract guidelines: tinyurl.com/yecf3ave 🔗Register here! tinyurl.com/5d6em33b #Diabetes #Research #Symposium @chrimanitoba.bsky.social

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The PROMISE – Advocacy & Community Engagement in Research (ACER) program is officially live!
Be part of shaping cancer research:
💛Join as a Person With Lived Experience
🤝Partner with researchers as someone affected by cancer
📲 Scan to get involved today!
#CHRIM #CCMB #CancerResearch

It would be great to see the program expand to include younger children. Collaborating with @chrimanitoba.bsky.social and researchers across the available research themes and labs could help develop engaging, age-appropriate short programs.

YouTube video by CHRIM Communications PROMISE: Pediatric Research in Oncology in Manitoba: Innovation, Science, Excellence

PROMISE’s official video is now live on www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHnC...
check it out! 🎥 #CCMB #CHRIM #CancerResearch #AYAcancer

Huge thanks to Dr. Jody Haigh, Dr. OgilvieTamra and Dr. Stephanie Villeneuve for presenting their exciting research at PROMISE Research Day! Big shoutout to all the trainees who took part in the poster competition. Amazing work by everyone! 👏 #CCMB #CHRIM #CancerResearch

Congratulations to graduate students Ujala Chawla, Ovini Amarasinghe, Johnathon Lucas and Helgi Kuzmychova on their impressive poster and oral presentations during #PROMISE first research half day. fantastic work! #CCMB #CHRIM #CancerResearch

The first PROMISE Research Day is just 7 days away on June 12-come celebrate research, community, and connection with us! #CHRIM #CCMB #CancerResearch

🎧Check out this asPERusual episode, where host Dr. Anna Chudyk, joined by Patient Engagement Coordinator Brianna Hunt and Michelle Roy and Onalee Garcia-Alecia from the iCARE PAG, discussed meaningful #engagement with children, #youth and families in #research ➡️ open.substack.com/pub/asperusu...

Congratulations to Mathew and Jonathon from @cedricstremblay.bsky.social lab, Great Work!!
#PediatricLeukemia #CancerResearch #CCMB #CHRIM

Today is #InternationalClinicalTrialsDay! Clinical trials are an integral part of research, we need them to help expand evidence to find the best treatments for kids.

Thank you to all the nurses, clinicians, researchers and all others who contribute to clinical trials at CHRIM!

This week is National Nursing Week. CHRIM has many investigators who have nursing backgrounds as well as a full Research Support Unit of research nurses who contribute to child health research everyday.

Thank you nurses for all that you do!

Bear Witness Day honours Jordan River Anderson and invites people of all ages to “Bear Witness” to ensure Jordan’s Principle is fully implemented. 🧸

Today, we will reflect on what Jordan’s Principle means to child health research and First Nations children and families.

#BearWitnessDay

PROMISE Co-Pl @brittdrog.bsky.social is presenting at BioNet 2025:"Leveraging large-scale datasets and single cell omics data to develop a polygenic score for cisplatin-induced ototoxicity." #BioNet2025#CCMB#CHRIM

Explore this month’s #SimpleBlood feature highlighting PROMISE Principal Investigator @cedricstremblay.bsky.social
simplyblood.org/2025/05/lab-... #PediatricLeukemia #CancerResearch #CCMB #CHRIM #ISEHSociety

Deadline Extended!
Submit your abstracts for the 1st Annual PROMISE Research Half-Day 📚✨
🔬 Theme: Pediatric & AYA Cancers
💵 Awards:
• $500 – Best Oral Presentation
• $250 – Top 3 Poster Presentations
📅 New Deadline: May 14, 2025
📧 Submit to: promise@umanitoba.ca

#CancerResearch #CHRIM #CCMB

Today is Red Dress Day, a day to honour and bring awareness to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ Peoples.

We commit to upholding and protecting the rights of Indigenous women and children as well as doing our part to end gender-based and racialized violence.
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We are pleased to announce that CancerCare Manitoba Foundation is investing in pediatric cancer research through PROMISE — a new initiative dedicated to uniting scientists and clinicians to improve outcomes for children diagnosed with cancer. #CHRIM #CCMB #PediatricCancer #CancerResearch

Big thanks to PROMISE PI Dr. Sapna Oberoi and Kaitlyn Hanson for the fantastic presentation on Integrating Research and Clinical Care to Improve Experiences and Outcomes of Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer. #CHRIM #CCMB #AYA #CancerResearch

PROMISE researchers @cedricstremblay.bsky.social Dr. Sapna Oberoi,Dr.Rene Zahedi,Dr.Stephanie Villeneuve and Dr. Tobias Karakach are proud to have contributed to this groundbreaking work. Honoured to be part of such an amazing pan-Canadian effort! #CHRIM #CCMB #CancerResearch
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PROMISE First Research Half-Day Registration Form Date & Time 📅 Date: Thursday, June 12, 2025 ⏰ Time: 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM Location: 🏢 Main Event: Room 500, 715 McDermot Ave, Winnipeg, MB 📍 Poster Section: Joe Doupe Concourse (2nd floor, Basic Medica...

The first PROMISE Research Half-Day will take place on June 12, 2025, from 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM at 500-715 McDermot Ave, Winnipeg, MB. We’re excited to see everyone there! See the registration link below: forms.gle/6wuiF5doyt3D...
#CancerResearch #CCMB #CHRIM