Morag Park Explained

Morag Park 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.

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[5]

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

Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation Grand Prix Scientifique (2019)

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

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

Notes and References

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

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