CUOG 2023 Research Grant COMPETITION ($50,000):
CUOG / UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO UROLOGIC ONCOLOGY PROGRAM COMMITMENT WITH ASTELLAS
PHARMA RESEARCH GRANT PROGRAM
3 Awards each in the amount of $50,000
Grant Recipients:
CUOG MEMBER GRANT RECIPIENT: Peter Black
Title: Urothelial Cancer Screening in Individuals with Lynch Syndrome Using a Urine
Tumor DNA Panel: LS-URO Clinical Trial
CUOG MEMBER GRANT RECIPIENT: Wes Kassouf
Title: Relevance of antibody-mediated selection of the urinary microbiome in the
response to bladder-sparing therapy in muscle-invasive bladder cancer.
CUOG MEMBER GRANT RECIPIENT: Robert Sabbagh
Title: The gut-prostate axis in the pathogenesis of prostate cancer
CUOG 2023 Research Grant COMPETITION ($10,000):
CUOG / UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO UROLOGIC ONCOLOGY PROGRAM COMMITMENT WITH ASTELLAS
PHARMA RESEARCH GRANT PROGRAM
5 AWARDS each in the amount of $10,000
GRANT RECIPIENTS:
CUOG SUPERVISOR: Robert Hamilton Grant Recipient: Ahmad Mousa
Title: Primary Retroperitoneal Lymph Dissection for Metastatic Nonseminomatous Germ
Cell Tumors: Review of Oncologic Outcomes and the Role of Adjuvant
Chemotherapy
CUOG SUPERVISOR: Laurence Klotz Grant Recipient: Ravi Kumar
Title: Significance of MR visibility vs invisibility in a large active surveillance cohort
CUOG SUPERVISOR: Ricardo Rendon Grant Recipient: Martha Foley
Title: The kinetics of prostate specific antigen (PSA) in advanced prostate cancer
patients while receiving treatment: A retrospective chart review
CUOG SUPERVISOR: Eric Vigneault Grant Recipient: Maimouna Diarra
Title: The association of circulating tumor DNA with tumor control and toxicity in prostate
cancer patients treated with EBRT and HDR brachytherapy boost
CUOG SUPERVISOR: Christopher Wallis Grant Recipient: David Dan Nguyen
Title: Evaluating the Association of Marginalization and Socioeconomic Status with
Access to Androgen-Deprivation Therapy Intensification in Ontarians with de novo
Metastatic Prostate Cancer