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Molly Appeal paves the way to precision cancer treatment
Posted by Melanie Jollymore on
November 24, 2017
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2017 Molly Appeal lead researchers (left to right) Wenda Greer, Zhaolin Xu and Paola Marignani. (Group photos by Danny Abriel; additional photos courtesy Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation)
A group of Dalhousie Medical School researchers is spearheading a new initiative to develop personalized cancer treatments, with support from Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation’s 2017-18 Molly Appeal.
“Every person’s cancer is as unique as their fingerprints,” says Dr. Paola Marignani, an internationally known cancer researcher and professor in Dalhousie’s Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology who’s leading this year’s Molly Appeal research initiative.
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