ICRF MONTREAL 2024
POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS
Dr. Sarah matarasso Greenfeld
Jewish General Hospital
Research focus: Hematology
Supervising Physicians:
Dr. Sarit Assouline
*3-year subsidy (2022-2025)
WATCH VIDEO: Meet Dr. Matarasso
Dr. Adi Gurarie Knigin
McGill University Health Centre
Research Focus:
Endocrinology & Breast Cancer
Supervising Physicians:
Dr. Richard Kremer & Dr. Ami Grunbaum
*2-year subsidy (2023-2025)
Dr. David Knigin
Jewish General Hospital
Research focus: Ovarian cancer
Supervising Physicians:
Dr. Walter Gotlieb
Dr. Shannon Salvador
*3-year subsidy (2021-2024)
Dr. Gabriel Levin
Jewish General Hospital
Research focus: Gynecologic oncology
Supervising Physicians:
Dr. Walter Gotlieb
*3-year subsidy (2022-2025)
WATCH VIDEO: Meet Dr. Gabriel Levin
Dr. Noemie Sultan
CHU Sainte-Justine, in collaboration with the Montreal Children’s Hospital.
Research Focus:
Pediatric Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Supervising Physicians:
Dr. Catherine Goudie & Dr. Sonia Cellot
*1-year subsidy (2023-2024)
Dr. Yossi Tzur
Jewish General Hospital
Research Focus:
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Supervising Physicians:
Dr. Walter Gotlieb
*3-year subsidy (2023-2026)
WATCH VIDEO: Meet Dr. Yossi Tzur
DR. ORAN ZLOTNICK
McGill University Health Centre
Research Focus:
Liver cancer
Supervising Physician:
Dr. Peter Metrakos
*2-year subsidy (2022-2024)
2024 DOCTORAL FELLOW
AMATZIA GANTZ
McGill University Health Centre
Research Focus: Liver cancer
Supervising Physician: Dr. Peter Metrakos
*1-year subsidy (2024-2025)
Israel GRANT AWARD RECIPIENTS
DIRECT FUNDING BY THE MONTREAL CHAPTER
Yosef Buganim, PHD
Associate Professor in the Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
ICRF Project Grant focusing on Breast Cancer and Cancer Stem Cells
* 3-year subsidy (2024-2027)
Research Title: Exploring how Extraembryonic-like Epigenetic State Promotes Cancer Development
Shahar Frenkel, MD, PhD
Head of the Ocular Oncology Unit at Hadassah Medical Center
ICRF Project Grant Exploring Pediatric Eye Cancer
*3-year subsidy (2024-2027)
Research Focus: Children with retinoblastoma and other rare eye cancers
Yaron Carmi, PhD
Tel Aviv University
Research Title:
Identifying the mechanisms underlying melanoma relapse following curative surgery.
*3-year subsidy completed in 2023
Nir London, PhD
Weizmann Institute of Science
Research Title:
Targeting melanoma with covalent drugs.
*3-year subsidy completed in 2022
Rotem Rubinstein, PhD
Tel Aviv University
Research Title:
Structural Biology of VISTA - an Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor.
*3-year subsidy completed in 2022
