Cancer Pathology Translational Research Grants

Projects must be likely to advance the field of cancer diagnostic, prognostic or predictive testing. Collaborations between Ontario institutions, including the trans-institutional use of core resources, are encouraged as is leveraging of existing collaborative clinical trials networks. It is expected that most proposals will make use of primary human cancer samples.

Examples of the types of projects OMPRN seeks to fund include:

• Novel approaches to making definitive pathological cancer diagnoses under challenging circumstances such as small tissue samples or difficult-to-recognize cancer types;
• Incorporation of molecular data in the pathological classification of tumours;
• Identification or validation of prognostic or predictive cancer biomarkers, including in the context of drug discovery or clinical trials.