Morag Park

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Morag Park CQ FRSC is a Scottish-Canadian breast cancer and genomics researcher at the McGill University Health Centre. [1] She was the director of the Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Institute (GCI) for 12 years. Park is known for her work on the combination of genetic and epigenetic alterations that result in breast cancer progression and receptor tyrosine kinases involved in cancer. [2] More recently, she has worked in as primary co-researcher of a Quebec cancer biobank network that creates tumor models derived from patients, allowing for research into why individual patients respond well or poorly to cancer therapies. [3] She is currently a professor in the Gerald Bronfman Department of Oncology and a member of the McGill University Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. [1]

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Education

Park conducted her undergraduate studies at University of Glasgow and received a B.Sc. with first class honors. She received a PhD in viral carcinogenesis at the Medical Research Council Virology Institute in Scotland and conducted her post-doctoral research at the National Institutes for Cancer Research in Washington, DC. [4]

Awards and honors

2022 Woman of Distinction Award in Research and Innovation [3] [5]

Club de Recherches Cliniques du Québec Michel Sarrazin Award (2021) [6]

Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation Grand Prix Scientifique (2019) [5]

Canadian Cancer Society 2017 Robert L. Noble Prize [7]

2015 Canadian Cancer Research Alliance Award for Exceptional Leadership in Cancer Research [8]

References

  1. 1 2 "Morag Park, PhD - Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre - RI-MUHC". Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
  2. ↑ Network, Marathon of Hope Cancer Centres. "Morag Park". Marathon of Hope Cancer Centres Network. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
  3. 1 2 "Professor Morag Park - 2022 Woman of Distinction - Research and Innovation". Women's Y Foundation. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
  4. ↑ "Morag Park | Researcher and Quebec scientific". www.genomequebec.com. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
  5. 1 2 Staff, McGill Reporter (2022-09-26). "Morag Park honoured by Women's Y Foundation". McGill Reporter. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
  6. ↑ "Prix Michel Sarrazin – CRCQ" (in Canadian French). Retrieved 2022-10-26.
  7. ↑ "Dr. Morag Park awarded prestigious Robert L. Noble Prize - Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre - RI-MUHC". Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
  8. ↑ "2015 Awards | Canadian Cancer Research Alliance (CCRA)". CCRA. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
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