Morag Park

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Morag Park CQ FRSC is a breast cancer and genomics researcher at the McGill University Health Centre. [1] 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 Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at McGill University. [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]

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References

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  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.
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  8. "2015 Awards | Canadian Cancer Research Alliance (CCRA)". CCRA. Retrieved 2022-10-26.