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Media Advisory - Prostate Cancer Canada celebrates local Vancouver Hero
Vancouver, British Colombia, April 16 –– Prostate Cancer Canada will honour the late Jack Poole, former VANOC Board Chair and local businessman, with the Local Hero Award. Jack was a generous benefactor to the Vancouver General Hospital and UBC Hospital Foundation with gifts totalling $3 Million for “Jack the Robot”, a da Vinci S HD surgical system, and a $1 Million gift towards the Robert H. N. Ho Research Centre. His lead donation attracted a further $3.5 million in donations including $1.5 million from Jimmy Pattison. Together these donations enabled VGH to become the fourth Canadian hospital to employ robotic technology in surgery.

Media Advisory- Prostate Cancer Canada celebrates local Calgary Hero
Calgary, AB, April 10 –– Local Hero Dr. Jay Lee will be honoured on April 11th at the annual Wake Up Call Breakfast, hosted by Prostate Cancer Canada, in partnership with the Prostate Cancer Centre. Dr. Lee is being recognized for his extraordinary contribution to the fight against prostate cancer.

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PCC Travel Awards

Prostate Cancer Canada (PCC) is pleased to offer travel awards to attend the 2013 Australian Canadian Prostate Cancer Research Alliance (AC-PCRA) Symposium. The symposium will be held in Port Douglas, Queensland Australia August 14-17, 2013.

PCC will provide a $1,000 contribution to travel costs to 15 researchers attending the meeting. This award is intended to support researchers at all stages of their career including but not limited to Principal Investigators, postdoctoral fellows, students and technical staff. This symposium has proven to be a good venue to develop and establish collaborations among researchers and this forms the rationale behind this current opportunity provided by PCC.

Applications will be subject to a peer review process to identify the most meritorious applicants. Applications will be reviewed and awards made based on the following criteria:

Significance and relevance of prostate cancer research being presented

Proposed plan to develop new collaborations and expand networking

Applicants for the PCC AC-PCRA Travel Award must meet the following expectations:

1. Join the AC-PCRA online if not already a member. Membership is free and can be done by visiting the AC-PCRA website at: www.aus-canprostatealliance.org.
2. Submit an abstract and be prepared to present their science/expertise/resources through a talk, abstract and/or poster at the symposium.
3. State their collaborative goals for attending the symposium. Preference will be given to applicants who can outline their plan for contributing to the development of new collaborative connections and for networking with other delegates.
4. Attend the entire symposium.
5. Provide a report to the PCC after the symposium on the collaborative relationships established.

Timeline

Application Deadline: Friday, May 24, 2013 at 5:00 PM EDT
Results Announced: Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Apply online at http://fluidsurveys.com/surveys/pcc/research-travel-awards-program/

The following application form will collect:

Applicant information
Abstract of work to be presented
Collaborative goals
Additional Funding

(30/04/2013)

Rising Star Recipients Announced

Prostate Cancer Canada and Movember are proud to announce the inaugural recipients of the Rising Star in Prostate Cancer Research Awards:

Dr. Xuesen Dong (Vancouver Prostate Centre)
Dr. Anthony Joshua (Princess Margaret Cancer Centre)
Dr. Hon Leong (London Health Sciences Centre)
Dr. Éric Lévesque (Université Laval)

More here.

(23/01/2013)

2013 Key Dates

Prostate Cancer Canada has expanded the number of funding opportunities this year. The following are key dates for the competitions launching and continuing in 2013.

Competition	Registration	Application Deadline	Start
PCC Travel Awards		May 24th, 2013
Rising Star	Passed	Passed	Passed
Movember Team Grants	Passed	Passed	July 1, 2013
Movember Discovery Grants (15/12/2012)	Passed	Passed	July 1, 2013

More information:
2013 Movember Discovery Grants
2013 Rising Star
2013 Movember Team Grants
2012 Pilot Grants
2012 Clinician Scientist