Hi again!

This is me asking "Have you donated yet?"



Please click on the link below and donate to our cause. There is still time.

http://mobro.co/kcktse

Our lab (the Bristow lab) focuses on DNA damage and repair and hypoxic tumour microenvironment. Both of these topics are very relevant in the biology of the prostate and prostate cancer. The prostate is unique as it is the only organ in the body that is under a constant state of hypoxia. Current treatment for prostate cancer uses both chemotherapy and radiation therapy, both of which kill cancer cells by inducing severe DNA damage in the cells. Our research is done mainly using normal and tumour prostate cells, patient biopsy and blood undergoing treatment for prostate cancer, as well as prostate tumour xenografts in mice. The money we receive from Prostate Cancer Canada goes directly to relevant and translational prostate cancer research, so of which is now planned for clinical trials.


Here is our lab 17 days into Movember. The ladies even made little paper Mo for the picture. You can barely see my Mo...but it is there.




I'll post up my individual picture once it is emailed to me.

From left to right:

Kirsten (admin)
Jan (rotation student)
Ramya (alumni MSc student, currently lab technician)
Stefania (Post-Doc fellow from Italy)
Shane (PhD student...probably seen him in my fishing report)
Mike (alumni Post-Doc, current manager of the prostate cancer arm of the International Cancer Genome Consortium)

Alice (lab technician)
Alan (resident fellow from Brazil)
Gaetano (research associate from England)
Ken (ie, me...PhD student)
Dominique (resident fellow)

Missing in the picture: Carla (lab technician on maternity leave, and of course Dr. Robert Bristow who had a patient emergency to respond to)

Thanks!