Ontario Research Fund supports three QHS projects

26 Mar, 2024

The Government of Ontario is supporting three Queen’s Health Sciences research projects, one of which for Dr. Teresa Purzner, through the Ontario Research Fund.

These projects – focused on neurological disorders, brain tumours, and cancer – received support for state-of-the-art equipment, technology, and hardware:

Teresa Purzner (Surgery): Identifying Predictors of Recurrence and Developing Novel Therapies for Patients with Brain Tumours – $100,000

Dr. Purzner is seeking to build new therapies that drive pediatric brain tumour cells to turn into becoming benign neurons.  Their team will be employing a high-throughput automated microscope to screen thousands of combinations of drugs, that would not be feasible manually, to identify which drug combinations are most effective. In addition, the Purzner lab is focused on building technology to identify, in real-time, areas that are high risk for early recurrence at the time of the initial surgery. If successful, the project will bring real-time personalized, precision surgery for patients in Ontario diagnosed with brain tumours for the very first time and will set the stage for Ontario to be a global leader in differentiation therapy as a novel approach to pediatric brain cancer.

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Ontario Research Fund supports three QHS projects

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