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2025

March 21 Congrats Anna! Ann Dill received a 2025 NSERC USRA Summer studentship work in the Dellaire lab!

March 14 Congrats Grace! Grace Bonham Carter received 2025 Beatrice Hunter Cancer Research Institute (BHCRI), D.W. Hoskin Summer Studentship for Cancer Research work in the Dellaire lab!

2024

November 5 Congrats Isabella! M.Sc. candidate in the Dellaire and Maksym labs wins Best Poster (Graduate student) at the 2024 Beatrice Hunter Cancer Research Institute (BHCRI) Cancer Symposium!

May 28 Congrats Dr. Dellaire! Professor Graham Dellaire is awarded a 2024 Dalhousie Faculty of Medicine Award for Excellence in Basic Research Link to news article here

May 23 Congrats Alex and Kennedy! M.Sc. candidates Alex Gibson and Kennedy Whelan were awarded Beatrice Hunter Cancer Research Institutes (BHCRI) Cancer Research Training Program Studentships

May 22 Congrats Alex! M.Sc. candidate Alex Gibson was awarded a Dalhousie Faculty of Medicine Studentship!

April 26 Congrats Dellaire Lab Trainees on Several 2024 Pathology Research Day Awards! Best Fundamental Research Paper – Dr. Sabateeshan Mathavarajah! Best Graduate Student Poster – Alex Gibson ATOM mentorship award – Dr. Jayme Salsman

April 26 Kennedy Whelan’s project on Arsenic and Lung Cancer is chosen as a talk for the 2024 Pathology Research Day Awards!

January 31 Dellaire lab awarded a 5 year Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Project Grant!

2023

December 4 Congratulations Saby on your Killam International Travel Award!

November 24 Congratulations Saby Mathavarajah on a successful thesis defense!

November 7 Dr. Graham Dellaire is awarded a Dalhousie Distinguished Research Professorship at the 6th Annual Dalhousie University Annual Legacy Awards.

Dr. Graham Dellaire and Dalhousie University President Dr. Kim Brooks (left to right)

November 1 Dellaire lab awarded a Cancer Research Society Operating Grant – to study the potential oncogenic role of PML in lung cancer.

April 2 Congratulations Mika! M.Sc. candidate Mika Park was awarded a CIHR CGSM Studentship!

March 31 Dellaire Lab and colleagues awarded a Canadian Cancer Society Breakthrough Grant A Cross-Canada Team lead by Dr. Robin Urquhart and co-Principal applicants, Drs. Graham Dellaire, Geoff Maksym, Alison Wallace, and Victor Martinez at Dalhousie, as well as Trevor Dummer (UBC), Aaron Goodarzi (U of Calgary), and Maria Aristizabal (Queens U) were awarded a historic $5.1 Million dollar Canadian Cancer Society Breakthrough grant to study the lung cancer environmental exposome to identify biomarkers for lung cancer risk related to arsenic, radon and air pollution.

2022

November 26 Congratulations Saby! Ph.D. candidate Sabateeshan Mathavarajah was awarded the Killam Travel Award to allow him to generate new fish cell lines with Dr. Ingo Braasch at Michigan State University

June 3 Congratulations Mika! M.Sc. candidate Mika Park was awarded a Research Nova Scotia Studentship!

2021

November 26 Footage of Dellaire Laboratory in Nature of Things documentary “The New Human“ Ph.D. student Saby Mathavarajah and M.Sc. candidate Kat Kratzer appear in the Nature of Things documentary “The New Human“! Link here on CBC GEM) and credit to the lab here:

November 12 Congratulations Elias M.Sc. student Elias Habib receives the Linnea Veinotte Cancer Research Training Program (CRTP) Scholar Award from the Beatrice Hunter Cancer Research Institute (BHCRI), awarded to the number 1 ranked application!

June 3 Congratulations Ally M.Sc. student Allyson Cook successfully defended her M.Sc. thesis!

May 13 Congratulations Kat Ph.D. student Kat Kratzer was awarded a Killam Ph.D. studentship, the President’s Award and Nova Scotia Graduate Studentship

May 12 Congratulations Victoria and Megan! Former honours student Victoria MacDonald and postdoctoral fellow Megan Whaley Cook were accepted into Medical School at Dalhousie University!

April 2 Congratulations Ally! M.Sc. student Allyson Cook was just accepted into Medical School at Dalhousie University!

March 8 Dr. Graham Dellaire and colleague Dr. Aaron Goodarzi (U of Calgary) lead a national study on the impacts of Canadian arsenic and radon environmental exposures (CARE)! A team lead by Drs. Graham Dellaire and Aaron Goodarzi was awarded a $2 Million Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) – Innovation Fund grant to develop better ways of detecting arsenic and radon impacts on cancer in Canada. DalNews Story and more news coverage here (link)

February 16 Congratulations Saby! Ph.D. candidate Sabateeshan Mathavarajah was awarded the George Cooper Doctoral Killam Prize for being the most outstanding Killam Doctoral Student at Dalhousie University!

January Congratulations Kateryna! Ph.D. candidate Kateryna Kratzer was awarded a Cancer Research Training Program Studentship from the Beatrice Hunter Cancer Research Institute (BHCRI), as well as an Honorary Genomics in Medicine Studentship from Dalhousie University and the Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation!

2020

May 25 Congratulations Razan and Livia! Former Med Sci Honours Student Razan Al-Sharkawi was accepted into Medicine at Dalhousie University in Halifax and former M.Sc. student Livia Clarke is accepted into Medicine at Dal New Brunswick!

April 20 Dellaire renews NSERC Discovery Grant for 5 more years!! Our grant to study the evolutionary molecular biology of innate immunity in vertebrates has been funded by NSERC ($180,000 over 5 years)

March 27 Congratulations Carter and Livia! Former M.Sc. students Carter VanIderstine and Livia Clarke just got accepted to the Pharmacy program at Dalhousie University!

March 23 Congratulations Saby! Ph.D. Candidate Sabateeshan Mathavarajah was awarded a Killam Pre-doctoral Award, the President’s Award and a Nova Scotia Graduate Studentship!!!

2019

November 22 Congratulations Kat M.Sc. Candidate Kateryna Kratzer awarded an Inaugral 2020 Genomics in Medicine Graduate Studentship!

September Congratulations Kat M.Sc. Candidate Kateryna Kratzer awarded a Nova Scotia Graduate Studentship!

April 10 Congratulations Ally M.Sc. Candidate Allyson Cook awarded a Cancer Research Training Program (CRTP) Studentship from the BHCRI.

Jan. 3 Dellaire Laboratory Awarded a NVIDIA GPU Grant The Dellaire lab was awarded a TITAN V graphics processor grant (GPU) from the NVIDIA Corp. to enable machine learning approaches to super-resolution microscopy

2018

Nov. 19 Congratulations Megan! Postdoctoral Fellow Megan Whaley awarded a Cancer Research Training Program (CRTP) Fellowship from the BHCRI.

Nov. 19 Congratulations Sabateeshan! Sabateeshan Mathavarajah awarded the 2018 George Cooper Master’s Killam Prize for having the highest ranked Killam Predoctoral M.Sc. Award at Dalhousie University

Oct. 3 Congratulations Dr. Chung! Dudley Chung successfully defended his Ph.D. in Pathology at Dalhousie University.  Special thanks to Dr. Francois-Michel Boisvert from the Sherbrooke University for being an excellent external examiner!

Sept 27 Super-Resolution Radial Fluctuation (SRRF) Imaging in the Dellaire Laboratory

The Dellaire laboratory has completed a microscope upgrade with high-speed and high-resolution Photometrics Cameras to allow Super-Resolution Radial Fluctuation (SRRF) Imaging, a technology developed by the laboratory of colleague Dr. Ricardo Henriques (University College London). This upgrade was made possible by equipment grants from the Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation (DMRF) and The Research Tools and Instruments (RTI) Grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

SRRF Imaging of Microtubules in a Live HeLa Cervical Cancer Cell

April 1

CONGRATULATIONS Sabateeshan!

New M.Sc. candidate Sabateeshan Mathavarajah awarded an NSERC CGSM and a Killam Pre-Doctoral Fellowship for his M.Sc. studies (starting Sept. 2018)!

CONGRATULATIONS Leah!

New M.Sc. candidate Leah MacLean awarded an NSERC CGSM (starting Sept. 2018).

Feb 23

CONGRATULATIONS Jenna!

Jenna Curwin awarded an NSERC USRA (declined) and a BHCRI Summer Studentship!

CONGRATULATIONS Razan!

Razan Al Sharkawi awarded an NSERC USRA Summer Studentship.

January 23

Dellaire Lab receives $1.1 Million Project Grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Dal News Story: Dalhousie Receives $5.1 Million Investment in Health Research

2017

August 1

CONGRATULATIONS Livia!

M.Sc. candidate Livia Clarke awarded a BHCRI Cancer Research Training Program traineeship for her M.Sc. studies.

July 7
Congratulations Livia!

Livia Anthes successfully defended her M.Sc. in Pathology at Dalhousie University.

May 16

CONGRATULATIONS Livia!

M.Sc. candidate Livia Anthes wins best platform presentation at the Graduate Student Research Day, Dalhousie Unversity, Professional & Research Education Program (PERP), Halifax, NS

Feb 6

Dr. Dellaire gives a Keynote lecture for the Nova Scotia Institute of Science (NSIS) entitled “How to Edit a Genome”

Jan 23

Cafe Scientific on Gene Editing!

Dr. Dellaire joins Josephine Johnson (Director of Research and Research Scholar at The Hastings Center, New York) to discuss “Fixing the Human Genome: Promises & Pitfalls – What can we do, what should we do?”

2016

Nov 7

CONGRATULATIONS Livia!

M.Sc. candidate Livia Anthes wins best platform presentation at the BHCRI Cancer Research Conference in Halifax, NS!

Nov 1

Good luck Dr. Dale Corkery in Germany!

Dr. Dale Corkery starts his postdoctoral studies in the laboratory of Dr. Yaowen Wu at the Max Planck Institute in Dortmund, Germany!

Sept 5

CONGRATULATIONS Dr. Dale Corkery!

Dr. Dale Corkery was awarded 2015 Dalhousie CAGS/UMI Distinguished Dissertation Award  for best Ph.D. thesis!

July 28

CONGRATULATIONS Dr. Attwood!

Kathleen Attwood successfully defended her Ph.D. in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at Dalhousie University.  Special thanks to Dr. Robert Bristow from the Princes Margaret Cancer Research Centre (Toronto) for being an excellent external examiner!

May 5

CONGRATULATIONS Livia Anthes!

Livia Anthes  was awarded a BHCRI Cancer Research Training Program traineeship for her M.Sc. studies in Sept. 2016!

May 1

CONGRATULATIONS Kara and DanDan!

Kara Koskowich and DanDan Zhao were awared NSERC USRA Summer studentship to work in the Dellaire lab!

2015

Nov 2

CONGRATULATIONS Dr. Lahsaee!

Sara Lahsaee successfully defended her Ph.D. in Pathology at Dalhousie University.  Special thanks to Dr. Wan Lam from the B.C. Cancer Agency (Vancouver) for being an excellent external examiner!

Aug 4

CONGRATULATIONS Dr. Corkery!

Dale Corkery successfully defended his Ph.D. in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at Dalhousie University.  Special thanks to Dr. David Litchfield from Western University (London, ON) for being an excellent external examiner!

May 14

CONGRATULATIONS Morgan!

Medical student Morgan MacDonald was awarded Best Poster at the Faculty of Medicine Research Day at Dalhousie University

May 8

CONGRATULATIONS Victoria!

Victoria Bentley was awarded the Governor General’s Gold Medal for the best M.Sc. thesis at Dalhousie University

April 17

CONGRATULATIONS Kathleen and Jordan!

Ph.D. candidate Kathleen Attwood and postdoctoral fellow Dr. Jordan Pinder were awarded a 1 year studentship and fellowship (respectively) from the CRTP program (BHCRI)

April 6

CONGRATULATIONS Kara!

Kara Koskowich was awarded a USRA NSERC Summer studentship

CONGRATULATIONS Livia!

Livia Anthes was awarded an NSERC Alexander Graham Bell CGS-M M.Sc. Studentship

CONGRATULATIONS Livia!

Livia Anthes was awarded a BHCRI CBCF-Atlantic Summer Studentship

January 9

Dellaire lab hosts CBCF-Atlantic

The Dellaire laboratory hosted representative from the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation-Atlantic for a tour of our state-of-the-art zebrafish injection and imaging facilitites

January 5

CONGRATULATIONS Jordan!

Postdoctoral fellow Jordan Pinder’s abstract was chosen as a talk at the upcoming Keystone Symposium on DNA Repair to be held at Whistler, B.C. in March!

2014

July 21

The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation (CBCF) – Atlantic awards Dr. Graham Dellaire a Operating Grant to study the mechanisms of chemotherapy resistance in breast cancer, worth $150,000 over three years.

July 7

CONGRATULATIONS Victoria!

Victoria Bentley successfully defended her M.Sc. thesis and is off to Medical School at Dalhousie University (with an entrance scholarship no less!)

June 28

CONGRATULATIONS Victoria!

M.Sc. candidate Victoria Bentley has her abstract accepted for an oral presentation at Zebrafish Disease Modelling 7 (ZDM7) in Madison Wisconsin, USA.

June

CLICGEAR sponsors Ph.D. candidate Dale Corkery through the Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation Adopt-a-lab program

June

CONGRATULATIONS Dudley!

Ph.D. candidate Dudley Chung was awarded a Nova Scotia Research and Innovation Graduate Scholarship.

May

CONGRATULATIONS Alex and Victoria!

M.Sc. candidate Vitoria Bentley and Honour’s Project student Alex Stathakis have been accepted into Medical School for Sept. 2014 at Dalhousie University.

May 1

CONGRATULATIONS Dale and Jordan!

Ph.D. candidate Dale Corkery wins Best Oral Presentation, and Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Jordan Pinder wins best poster at the 19th Annual Pathology Research Day

April 29

CONGRATULATIONS Victoria!

M.Sc. candidate Victoria Bentley wins Best Oral Presentation, at the Paediatric Research Day.

April 25

Dellaire Lab hosts S for Science Club

Students from the Nashwaaksis Middle School Science Club visits the Dellaire Lab.

2013

June 18

Prostate Cancer Canada (PCC) Funding for the Dellaire lab

The Dellaire lab joins a team of 26 laboratories across Canada, lead by Dr. Ralph Buttyan (Vancouver Prostate Centre, who will study mechanisms of tumour plasticity and chemotherapy resistance in prostate cancer. This work is funded by a 5 Million dollar Inaugral Movember Team Grant (NEWS STORY)

June 15

CONGRATULATIONS Victoria!

M.Sc. Candidate Victoria Bentley had her abstract chosen for a platform presentation at the North Atlantic Zebrafish Zebrafish Research (NAZR), in Orono, Maine, USA.

May 28

CONGRATULATIONS Victoria!

M.Sc. Candidate Victoria Bentley awarded a 1 year M.Sc. Scotia Scholarship from the Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation (NSHRF)

May 25

CONGRATULATIONS Jordan!

Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Jordan Pinder awarded a 2 year postdoctoral fellowship from the Cancer Research Training Program (CRTP)

May 9

CONGRATULATIONS Dale and Victoria!

Ph.D. Candidate Dale Corkery and M.Sc. Candidate Victoria Bentley had their abstracts chosen for oral presentation at the 4th Annual TFRI Scientific Meeting, Ottawa, Canada

April 3

CONGRATULATIONS Alex!

Undergraduate student Alex Stathakis awarded both a USRA Summer Studentship from NSERC and a Norah Stephen Oncology Scholar Award

Feb. 1

CONGRATULATIONS Kathleen!

Ph.D. Candidate Kathleen Attwood awarded a prestigious Killam Ph.D. Studentship

2012

Nov. 12

Smithen et al., 2012 gets the Inside cover of Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry

A collaboration research study between the Dellaire, Berman and Thompson groups to characterize the anti-leukemic activity of prodigiosenes receives some great press and the cover of Org. Biomol. Chem.

Nov. 6

CONGRATULATIONS Jordan!

Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Jordan Pinder, wins 1st Prizes for his poster presentation at the 4th annual BHCRI Atlantic Cancer Research Conference

July 5

The The C17 Council for Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders

awards a research grant to Dr. Jason Berman (IWK Health Research Centre) in collaboration with Dr. Graham Dellaire and Dr. Poul Sorensen (B.C. Cancer Agency) to study the molecular mechanisms behind the spread of pediatric sarcomas using the zebrafish

May 16

CONGRATULATIONS Dale and Chansey!

Ph.D. Candidate Dale Corkery and M.Sc. Candidate Chansey Veinotte awarded best oral and best poster presentation (respectively) at the 2012 IHRTP Graduate Student Research Day

April 20

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) in partnership with NSERC awards a research team led by Dr. Graham Dellaire and Dr. Jason Berman a Collaborative Health Research Program (CHRP) Grant to discover novel therapies for T-Cell Leukemia in collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline

April 3

CONGRATULATIONS Kathleen!

Ph.D. Candidate Kathleen Attwood awarded a Ph.D. Studentship from

NSERC

April 3

CONGRATULATIONS Casper!

Undergraduate student Casper Macaulay awarded a USRA Summer Studentship from NSERC

March 17

CONGRATULATIONS Kathleen!

Ph.D. Candidate Kathleen Attwood awarded a Travel Award at the 55th Annual Canadian Society of Molecular Biosciences (CSMB) conference (Whistler, B.C.)

March 2

CONGRATULATIONS Paalini!

Undergraduate student Paalini Sathiyaseelan awarded a Norah Stephen Oncology Summer Studentship

2011

December 9

CONGRATULATIONS Dale!

Ph.D. candidate Dale Corkery awarded a Cancer Research Training Program (CRTP) Traineeship

December 5

The Dellaire and Berman labs are awarded a Capital Equipment Grant for new tissue culture equipment by the Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation (DMRF) worth ~$30,000.

November 17

Dr. Graham Dellaire is elected Chair of the Pathology Research Committee.

November 7

CONGRATULATIONS DELLAIRE and BERMAN LAB!

Dr. Jayme Salsman, Chansey Veinotte, Dale Corkery, Sara Lahsaee and Kathleen Attwood, win 1st Prizes for their posters at the BHCRI Cancer Symposium

August 30

The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation (CBCF) – Atlantic awards Dr. Graham Dellaire a Operating Grant to study the mechanisms of chemotherapy resistance in breast cancer, worth $150,000 over three years.

July 30

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) awards Dr. Graham Dellaire a Operating Grant to study the role of the PML tumour suppressor in DNA repair, worth $755,000 over five years.

May 30

CONGRATULATIONS Jayme!

Dr. Jayme Salsman is awarded a CRTP Postdoctoral Fellowship

May 3

CONGRATULATIONS Dale!

Dale Corkery Wins Best Poster at the IHRTP Graduate Student Research Day

April 1

CONGRATULATIONS Alexandra!

Alexandra Reda is awarded an Norah Stephen/CBCF-Atlantic Summer Studentship to study DNA repair in breast cancer cells

March 30

CONGRATULATIONS Kathleen!

M.Sc. candidate Kathleen Attwood is awarded an Alexander Graham Bell CGSM studentship from NSERC

2010

November 8

CONGRATULATIONS Dale and Kathleen!

Ph.D. candidate Dale Corkery wins Best Platform Presentation, and M.Sc. candidate Kathleen Atwood wins Best Poster Presentation at the the BHCRI Cancer Symposium.

October 28

Dr. Graham Dellaire is appointed a Senior Scientist of the Beatrice Hunter Cancer Research Institute (BHCRI)

October 27

The Dellaire lab hosts the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame – Discovery Day Workshop – Cancer Close-up: Fluorescence microscopy of cancer cells

September 1

CONGRATULATIONS Kathleen!

M.Sc. candidate Kathleen Attwood awarded a Cancer Research Training Program (CRTP) Traineeship

May 27

The Dellaire lab hosts the Terry Fox Research Institute High School Laboratory Tour

May 13

CONGRATULATIONS Dale!

Ph.D. candidate Dale Corkery is awarded a Travel Award to attend 2nd Annual Terry Fox Research Institute meeting in Vancouver

May 5

CONGRATULATIONS Dale!

Ph.D. candidate Dale Corkery wins 2nd Prize for his poster presented at the 2010 Pathology Research Day

April 27

CONGRATULATIONS Kathleen!

summer student Kathleen Attwood is awarded a Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation-Atlantic Summer studentsthip.

March 30

The
Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) awards the Dellaire Lab a Research Tools and Intstrument (RTI) award for $106,000 to buy a photoactivation/photobleaching unit for a state-of-the art live-cell spinning disk confocal microscope.

March 26

The Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) awards the Dellaire Lab a 5 year Operating Grant to study the DNA repair mechanisms using high resolution electron microscopy.

February

Dr. Dellaire is appointed Co-Chair of the Dalhousie Cancer Research Training Program (CRTP), sharing duties with Associate-Dean of Research

Dr. Gerald Johnston

January 21

Dellaire Lab hosts the Young Presidents Organization (YPO)Lab Tour

2009

November 16

CONGRATULATIONS Dale!

M.Sc. candidate Dale Corkery wins Best Poster Award at the Atlantic Cancer Research Symposium, Halifax, NS, CANADA

August

CONGRATULATIONS Brenda!

M.Sc. Candidate Brenda Tse awarded a Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation (NSHRF) Studentship

July

The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation-Atlantic awards the Dellaire Lab a 1 year Operating Grant to study mechanisms of breast cancer chemotherapy resistance.

May 28

Dellaire Lab hosts the 2009 Terry Fox Foundation High School Student Lab Tour

May 17

CONGRATULATIONS DALE & JACK!

Both running in the Blue Nose Marathon, 10Km Men 20-29 Category. Dale finishing 40th, and Jack finishing 45th.

April 2

Dellaire Laboratory Joins the Beatrice Hunter Cancer Research Institute as an Inaugral Member

February 17

Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Kendra Cann awarded a prestigious
Killam Fellowship

January 5

CONGRATULATIONS Dale!

M.Sc. candidate Dale Corkery awarded a Cancer Research Training Program (CRTP) Traineeship

2008

April 9

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) awards Dr. Graham Dellaire a prestigious New Investigator Award worth $300,000 over five years.

March 31

CONGRATULATIONS JACK!

M.Sc. candidate Jack Chen awarded a Cancer Research Training Program (CRTP) Traineeship

2007

November 22

The Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) awards the Dellaire lab $144,100 towards the establishment of the Nuclear Structure and Cancer Biology Laboratory.

July 27

The Nova Scotia Health Reseach Fund (NSHRF) awards the Dellaire Lab a 3 year Operating Grant.

July 3

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) awards the Dellaire Lab a 3 year Operating Grant.

July 1

Dr. Dellaire is cross-appointed to the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Dalhousie University.

June 1

Dalhousie Faculty of Medicine awards the Dellaire Lab an Intramural Grant of $20,000.

March 14

Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation (DMRF)
awards the Dellaire Lab a capital equipment grant of more than $26,000 for tissue culture equipment.