CHEO to share in new funding for genetic research, Ottawa Citizen, March 2013
Genetic researchers at CHEO will get a chunk of $150 million in funding to aid in the hunt for the causes and treatment of rare health disorders.The science and technology minister of state, Gary Goodyear, made a national announcement outlining support for 17 personalized health research projects across the country. Read more
Everyone wins with CHEO's hospital lottery, EMC news, March 2013
Marie Binelli feels so strongly about CHEO's good work that she took the time to speak at the launch of the We All Win lottery while her son was undergoing surgery at the children's hospital. Read more
CHEO Healthy Kids series wraps up, CTV News, March 2013
Last year, nearly 66-thousand children visited the emergency department at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario. For the last 19 weeks, CTV Ottawa and CHEO have joined forces to help parents find ways to keep their children healthy, fit and hopefully out of the hospital. Read more
Our Health: Ottawa home to promising new cancer treatment, Ottawa Citizen, March 2013
Indeed, through an eminently prolific collaboration, Dr. John Bell, a senior scientist in cancer therapeutics at The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and Dr. David Stojdl, a scientist in molecular biomedicine at the CHEO Research Institute, have identified a way to trick cancer cells into committing suicide after receiving oncolytic virus therapy; in effect, eradicating the cancer itself and the potential for metastatic cancer growth. Read more
Exploring with purpose: cancer research at CHEO
Despite the numerous advances made in the fight against cancer, despite the fact that today more children survive cancer than ever before, it is still far too prevalent and it affects far too many people. The staff at CHEO and the CHEO Research Institute share a common goal: to make cancer a thing of the past. It is that same objective that fuels the meaningful work performed by the scientists and physicians as they look for ways to not only cure cancer but to also make treatments easier on patients. Read more