Canadian ‘dream team’ to tackle deadly brain cancer

Some of the country’s top minds in cancer research are coming together to find new treatments for the most common and deadly form of brain cancer among adults following one of the largest investments ever made in Canada to research glioblastoma - $8.2-million from the Terry Fox Research Institute (TFRI), the Terry Fox Foundation (TFF), Alberta Innovates–Health Solutions, the Alberta Cancer Foundation, Genome Canada, Genome BC and the BC Cancer Foundation. The research team is focusing on developing new drugs, the first of which are projected to be ready for clinical trials in two to four years. Read more from the University of Calgary's UToday here.