Terry Fox Research Institute (TFRI)

🏃‍♂️ Terry Fox Run Challenge Update! 🏃‍♀️

The Terry Fox Run is six weeks away and our research community is already making incredible strides. So far, we've raised $14,619 toward our $158,000 goal!

Haven’t joined the challenge yet? Now’s the time! 🔗 www.tfri.ca/updates/news...

Congratulations @wajihjawhar.bsky.social and team on this exciting new publication!

On this final day of Sarcoma Awareness Month, we're sharing a breakthrough that brings new hope to patients with osteosarcoma – the same cancer that set Terry Fox on his Marathon of Hope.

📖 Read more: www.tfri.ca/updates/news...

@terryfoxfoundation.bsky.social @ccsresearch.bsky.social @mcgill.ca

🔦 Novel approach helps MOHCCN Clinician-Scientist find rare cells responsible for driving tumour growth

By adding DNA tags to individual cells and using single-cell sequencing, Dr. Nguyen and team have shed new light on the role that specific clonogenic cells play in cancer growth.

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🏃‍♀️ The Terry Fox Run Challenge is on! 🏃‍♀️

Our funded researchers are lacing up to raise funds for cancer research – and momentum is building.

Join a team, donate or learn more: www.tfri.ca/updates/news...

Together, we can help finish it! 💜

@dhdp-ca.bsky.social @marathonofhope.bsky.social

Terry Fox-funded researchers discovered an aggressive form of endometrial cancer, and a way to test for it, using AI 🔗 www.tfri.ca/updates/news...

Marathon of Hope Cancer Centres Network (@marathonofhope.bsky.social) researchers are using AI to match patients to clinical trials 🔗 www.marathonofhopecancercentres.ca/our-research...

The Digital Health and Discovery Platform (@dhdp-ca.bsky.social) will accelerate precision medicine through big data and AI 🔗 www.dhdp.ca/updates/news...

This #AIAppreciationDay, we’re highlighting a few of our funded projects using AI to drive research discovery, personalize care and improve access to clinical trials. 🧵

@dhdp-ca.bsky.social | @marathonofhope.bsky.social

The Digital Health and Discovery Platform (@dhdp-ca.bsky.social) will accelerate precision medicine through big data and AI 🔗 bit.ly/469HsWR

🍁🎯 Personalizing treatments for patients with renal cell carcinoma 🎯🍁

Under a microscope, most renal cell carcinomas (RCCs) look similar.

But their clinical behaviour—how they progress, respond to treatment and impact patient outcomes—can be vastly different.

Exclusive purple shirts are now available and customizable for Terry Fox researchers. Graphic shows purple shirt with "Finish It" slogan on the front and Terry running on the back.

🏃‍♀️ The 2025 Terry Fox Run Challenge is underway! Have you registered your research team yet?

Learn how to join and get your exclusive researcher shirt here: www.tfri.ca/updates/news...

Together, let’s Finish It!

@marathonofhope.bsky.social @dhdp-ca.bsky.social @terryfoxfoundation.bsky.social

A new study by Network researchers in Toronto reveals how a key molecule transforms some prostate and lung cancers into more aggressive, treatment-resistant forms of the disease.

(Original story by @pmresearch-uhn.bsky.social)

Read now ▶️ bit.ly/4emaWmA

We’re proud to celebrate Dr. Nadine Caron’s induction into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame—a well-deserved honour recognizing her trailblazing work as a surgeon, scholar and advocate for health equity.

Read our full story ▶️ bit.ly/3G93MFy

Members of the Fox family and departing Directors of TFRI (L to R: Jessie, Fred, Kirsten, Vic, Marla, Chris, Alexandra and Erin).

Huge thanks to three retiring Directors of the Board of the @terryfoxresearch.bsky.social - Marla Shapiro, Chris Paige and the inaugural President of TFRI, Vic Ling, for their many years of extraordinary service to cancer research. And thank you for the enduring support of the Fox family.

How do some cancers shift to become more deadly?

Researchers at @pmresearch-uhn.bsky.social have identified an RNA molecule that helps prostate & lung cancers transform into aggressive, hard-to-treat types—a new target in the fight against tumour evolution.

🔗: www.uhnresearch.ca/news/investi...

Join the Terry Fox Run Challenge and fundraise for cancer research in Canada! Forty-five years ago, Terry Fox started a marathon against cancer. Today, we are all working together – in labs, clinics and communities acr...

Attention researchers! Have you joined our Terry Fox Run Challenge?

Find out how to team up with fellow researchers fundraising for cancer research in Canada – and order your exclusive purple T-shirt here: www.tfri.ca/updates/news...

Let’s make the 45th anniversary the biggest year yet! 🍁

Pitching in: Raising millions for cancer research in honour of Terry Fox Terry’s younger brother, Darrell Fox, plans to cycle across Canada for the National Ride of Hope, making stops along the way in several communities

Darrell Fox to bike across Canada in honour of his brother Terry, hoping to raise another $1-million for #cancer research (@terryfoxfoundation.bsky.social has already raised $900-million), by Paul Waldie
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Excited to share our first lab paper, now published in Developmental Cell @cellpress.bsky.social !

🧠 How do glioblastoma (GBM) cells invade the brain, and what enables them to spread so effectively?

🚨 The latest issue of our Links Newsletter is here! 🚨

In this edition:

🏃‍♀️ Registration for the 2025 Terry Fox Run Challenge
💜 Customizable purple T-shirts for researchers
🧬 New clinical trials and discoveries
🔬 Research updates
🪙 Funding opportunities

Read & subscribe: www.tfri.ca/updates/link...