Entries by Rebecca Mercer

Assessing the Real-World Clinical and Economic Outcomes of Emerging Innovative Technologies in Oncology: The Cases of Biosimilars and CAR T-cells

Lead Investigator(s): Kelvin Chan, Scott Gavura, Wanrudee Isaranuwatchai Lead Institution: Sunnybrook Research Institute Co-Investigators: Jaclyn Beca, Wei Fang Dai, Jessica Arias, Lisa Milgram, Elaine Meertens, Arthur Manzon, Sherrie Hertz, Sean Hopkins, Tom Kouroukis, Chris Bredeson, William Wai Lun Wong, Petros Pechlivanoglou, Pierre Villeneuve, Sumit Gupta, Alexandra Chambers, Christine Chen, Lee (more…)

ARCC Health Economist Awarded Prestigious MSFHR Training Award

ARCC is pleased to congratulate our Health Economist, Adam Raymakers, on his recent award of a 2019 Research Trainee Award from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research. “Improving The Methods Of Economic Evaluation To Support Decision-Making: CAR-T, Uncertainty, And Real-World Evidence” Supervisor: Stuart Peacock (ARCC Co-Director) Adam’s research investigates how economic (more…)

Launched: CCS Innovation and Innovation to Impact Grant Competitions

For more information on these programs or to apply please visit https://www.cancer.ca/en/research/grants-and-awards/applications/applications/ Innovation Grants: Innovation Grants support the highest quality creative problem solving in cancer research. The goal of the Innovation program is to support the development and testing of transformative, paradigm-shifting concepts and approaches to address problems in cancer research, enhance (more…)

HTA for Decision Making Course – Registration Open

Registration is now open for the 2019 Health Technology Assessment for Decision Making workshop organized by the Toronto Health Economics and Technology Assessment (theta) Collaborative. Dates: September 25-27,2019 Location: Toronto General Hospital, 10th Floor, Eaton Building, Toronto, Ontario. Target Audience: Individuals who use HTA to make decisions relating to drugs, (more…)

Call for Proposals, Research Chair: Social challenges of personalised medicine and innovation in oncology

The French National Cancer Institute (INCa) and its partners are creating a Chair of Excellence in Research in Social and Human Sciences (SHS) entitled : “Social issues in personalized medicine and innovation in oncology”. Online Program Information can be found at: https://www.e-cancer.fr/Institut-national-du-cancer/Appels-a-projets/Appels-a-projets-en-cours/Chaire-SHS-2019 Open to French and foreign candidates, this Chair (more…)