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@promise-theme.bsky.social
PROMISE’s mission is to create a community focused on pediatric, adolescent and young adult oncology to accelerate research and disseminate discoveries that will improve outcomes for patients living with cancer in Manitoba and their loved ones.
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@promise-theme.bsky.social
· Mar 18
The first PROMISE research half-day is scheduled for June 12, 2025, from 12:00 to 6:00 PM at 500-715 McDermot Ave, Winnipeg, MB. We look forward to seeing everyone there! #CancerResearch #CCMB #CHRIM
Join us for the last CHRIM Research Rounds of the termon Dec 1st! We'll hear from Dr. Yale Michaels and Huda Alfarekh, sharing their presentation "Broadening access to genetically modified cell therapies through cost-effective manufacturing." See you there! #RPOMISE #CHRIM #CCMB
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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New Research Project Approved!
Assessment of the advocacy education needs of Persons With Lived Experience (PWLE)
The project aims to address the gap by asking PWLE where they feel they need more educational support and how that support should be delivered.
Link: https://ow.ly/IVrF50XtKyt
Assessment of the advocacy education needs of Persons With Lived Experience (PWLE)
The project aims to address the gap by asking PWLE where they feel they need more educational support and how that support should be delivered.
Link: https://ow.ly/IVrF50XtKyt
November 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
New Research Project Approved!
Assessment of the advocacy education needs of Persons With Lived Experience (PWLE)
The project aims to address the gap by asking PWLE where they feel they need more educational support and how that support should be delivered.
Link: https://ow.ly/IVrF50XtKyt
Assessment of the advocacy education needs of Persons With Lived Experience (PWLE)
The project aims to address the gap by asking PWLE where they feel they need more educational support and how that support should be delivered.
Link: https://ow.ly/IVrF50XtKyt
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Next week, we will be giving out blood, sweat, and tears to supporting #pediatric #cancer #research in Manitoba!
Please support us!
Go ALL clear team! support.cancercarefdn.mb.ca/site/TR/Even...
Please support us!
Go ALL clear team! support.cancercarefdn.mb.ca/site/TR/Even...
Ride Inside 2025: ALL Clear - CancerCare Manitoba Foundation
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November 21, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Next week, we will be giving out blood, sweat, and tears to supporting #pediatric #cancer #research in Manitoba!
Please support us!
Go ALL clear team! support.cancercarefdn.mb.ca/site/TR/Even...
Please support us!
Go ALL clear team! support.cancercarefdn.mb.ca/site/TR/Even...
Next week, we will be giving out blood, sweat, and tears to supporting #pediatric #cancer #research in Manitoba!
Please support us!
Go ALL clear team! support.cancercarefdn.mb.ca/site/TR/Even...
Please support us!
Go ALL clear team! support.cancercarefdn.mb.ca/site/TR/Even...
Ride Inside 2025: ALL Clear - CancerCare Manitoba Foundation
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November 21, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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When we think about research, we picture lab coats, data, and complex science — but rarely the young people whose experiences bring that science to life.
Read the full story to see how youth voices are making cancer research more human, more relevant, and more impactful: https://ow.ly/j1ej50XqxSv 💛
Read the full story to see how youth voices are making cancer research more human, more relevant, and more impactful: https://ow.ly/j1ej50XqxSv 💛
November 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
When we think about research, we picture lab coats, data, and complex science — but rarely the young people whose experiences bring that science to life.
Read the full story to see how youth voices are making cancer research more human, more relevant, and more impactful: https://ow.ly/j1ej50XqxSv 💛
Read the full story to see how youth voices are making cancer research more human, more relevant, and more impactful: https://ow.ly/j1ej50XqxSv 💛
Voting is now open for this year’s IHDCYH Talks contest! PROMISE is excited to have members @pharmalauren.bsky.social and @woodgateroberta.bsky.social participating in this year’s competition in both the video and infographic categories.
Voting is now open for this year's IHDCYH Talks contest! CHRIM is pleased to have several members participating in this year's competition in both the video and infographics categories.
See submissions and vote here: cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/54519.html
See submissions and vote here: cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/54519.html
November 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Voting is now open for this year’s IHDCYH Talks contest! PROMISE is excited to have members @pharmalauren.bsky.social and @woodgateroberta.bsky.social participating in this year’s competition in both the video and infographic categories.
👏 Congratulations to #PROMISE trainee Ovini Amarasinghe on receiving the 2025 @cancersociety.bsky.social Doctoral Research Award! 🎉 She is one of only two recipients from Manitoba to receive this year’s PhD Award! #CCMB #CHRIM #CancerResearch
November 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
👏 Congratulations to #PROMISE trainee Ovini Amarasinghe on receiving the 2025 @cancersociety.bsky.social Doctoral Research Award! 🎉 She is one of only two recipients from Manitoba to receive this year’s PhD Award! #CCMB #CHRIM #CancerResearch
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November 3, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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The fall issue of Through the Microscope, our public newsletter, will be hitting inboxes soon! Make sure you're subscribed to receive all the latest news in children's health research happening right here in Manitoba.
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October 30, 2025 at 7:57 PM
The fall issue of Through the Microscope, our public newsletter, will be hitting inboxes soon! Make sure you're subscribed to receive all the latest news in children's health research happening right here in Manitoba.
Subscribe here: mailchi.mp/chrim/newsle...
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Looking forward to the 14th Annual DREAM Symposium will be on Nov 13, 2025, and the DREAM Trainee Day will be Nov 12. Free to Register Here! tinyurl.com/5d6em33b #Diabetes #Research #Symposium @chrimanitoba.bsky.social @um-radyfhs.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Looking forward to the 14th Annual DREAM Symposium will be on Nov 13, 2025, and the DREAM Trainee Day will be Nov 12. Free to Register Here! tinyurl.com/5d6em33b #Diabetes #Research #Symposium @chrimanitoba.bsky.social @um-radyfhs.bsky.social
Congratulations to PROMISE PI Dr. Cédric Tremblay on receiving a @researchmb.bsky.social NIOG Grant for his project, “Investigating the Role of Interferon Signaling in T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.” #CHRIM #CCMB #CancerResearch
researchmanitoba.ca/niog-2025/
researchmanitoba.ca/niog-2025/
Research Manitoba Announces $1.8M in Funding for 24 New Investigators - Research Manitoba
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October 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Congratulations to PROMISE PI Dr. Cédric Tremblay on receiving a @researchmb.bsky.social NIOG Grant for his project, “Investigating the Role of Interferon Signaling in T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.” #CHRIM #CCMB #CancerResearch
researchmanitoba.ca/niog-2025/
researchmanitoba.ca/niog-2025/
Check out @chrimanitoba.bsky.social latest article featuring PROMISE: Changing the way the world treats childhood leukemia. 🔗 goodbear.ca/changing-the... #CCMB #AYACancer #CancerResearch
Changing the way the world treats childhood leukemia - Children’s Hospital Foundation of Manitoba
Changing the way the world treats childhood leukemia In the world of pediatric cancer research, a program at the Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba (CHRIM) has reimagined the ways to p...
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October 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Check out @chrimanitoba.bsky.social latest article featuring PROMISE: Changing the way the world treats childhood leukemia. 🔗 goodbear.ca/changing-the... #CCMB #AYACancer #CancerResearch
On Truth and Reconciliation Day, we wear orange to honour survivors of residential schools and remember those who we lost. Reconciliation is ongoing work, and we remain committed to listening, learning, and walking together with respect.
#EveryChildMatters #OrangeShirtDay #TruthAndReconciliation
#EveryChildMatters #OrangeShirtDay #TruthAndReconciliation
October 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Interested in using single cell technologies to unravel the molecular origins and evolution of ovarian cancer?
We are looking for a graduate student! More details here 👇
We are looking for a graduate student! More details here 👇
October 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Interested in using single cell technologies to unravel the molecular origins and evolution of ovarian cancer?
We are looking for a graduate student! More details here 👇
We are looking for a graduate student! More details here 👇
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Couldn't be prouder of Deanne Nixie Miao for receiving this award. So well deserved!
Meet UM’s 2025 Vanier Scholars! Four graduate students have received the prestigious 2025 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships. Congratulations to Md. Abdul Aziz, Barret Monchka, Chamali Kodikara, and Deanne Nixie Miao. Read more about their research:
news.umanitoba.ca/meet-ums-202...
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September 25, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Couldn't be prouder of Deanne Nixie Miao for receiving this award. So well deserved!
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Interested in single cell analyses and cancer biology?
Check out this exciting graduate opportunity👇
Check out this exciting graduate opportunity👇
🚀 Exciting MSc opp @ UManitoba! Join 2 interdisciplinary labs (bioinformatics + cancer bio) on a CIHR-funded ovarian cancer project. Gain hands-on training in single-cell genomics & molecular biology. See advertisement to apply #GradResearch #Cancer
September 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Interested in single cell analyses and cancer biology?
Check out this exciting graduate opportunity👇
Check out this exciting graduate opportunity👇
👏 Congrats to PROMISE trainee Deanne Nixie Miao on receiving the 2025 Vanier Scholarship! She studies cisplatin, a cancer drug causing hearing loss in up to 80% of patients. Using single-cell tech, she aims to predict & prevent this side effect. #CCMB #CHRIM #CancerResearch
September 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
👏 Congrats to PROMISE trainee Deanne Nixie Miao on receiving the 2025 Vanier Scholarship! She studies cisplatin, a cancer drug causing hearing loss in up to 80% of patients. Using single-cell tech, she aims to predict & prevent this side effect. #CCMB #CHRIM #CancerResearch
👏 Congrats to PROMISE trainee Johnathon Lucas on receiving
Research Training Award (Masters) from Canadian Cancer Society! His project aims to understand how STAT5 promotes survival, proliferation and therapy-resistance in T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. #CCMB #CHRIM #CancerResearch
Research Training Award (Masters) from Canadian Cancer Society! His project aims to understand how STAT5 promotes survival, proliferation and therapy-resistance in T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. #CCMB #CHRIM #CancerResearch
September 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
👏 Congrats to PROMISE trainee Johnathon Lucas on receiving
Research Training Award (Masters) from Canadian Cancer Society! His project aims to understand how STAT5 promotes survival, proliferation and therapy-resistance in T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. #CCMB #CHRIM #CancerResearch
Research Training Award (Masters) from Canadian Cancer Society! His project aims to understand how STAT5 promotes survival, proliferation and therapy-resistance in T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. #CCMB #CHRIM #CancerResearch
Exciting announcement! ✨ Applications for the PROMISE Madox’s Warriors Graduate Student Award open soon. More details to come! #CCMB #CHRIM #AYAcancer #CancerResearch
September 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Exciting announcement! ✨ Applications for the PROMISE Madox’s Warriors Graduate Student Award open soon. More details to come! #CCMB #CHRIM #AYAcancer #CancerResearch
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September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Every day, families across Canada face the unimaginable. Let’s raise awareness, fund research, and support the children and families. 💛 #ChildhoodCancerAwareness #GoGold
September 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Every day, families across Canada face the unimaginable. Let’s raise awareness, fund research, and support the children and families. 💛 #ChildhoodCancerAwareness #GoGold
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📅 Mark your calendars! The 14th Annual DREAM Symposium will be on Nov 13, 2025, and the DREAM Trainee Day will be Nov 12. Abstracts due Sept 12. More info and abstract guidelines: tinyurl.com/yecf3ave 🔗Register here! tinyurl.com/5d6em33b #Diabetes #Research #Symposium @chrimanitoba.bsky.social
June 17, 2025 at 8:53 PM
📅 Mark your calendars! The 14th Annual DREAM Symposium will be on Nov 13, 2025, and the DREAM Trainee Day will be Nov 12. Abstracts due Sept 12. More info and abstract guidelines: tinyurl.com/yecf3ave 🔗Register here! tinyurl.com/5d6em33b #Diabetes #Research #Symposium @chrimanitoba.bsky.social
The PROMISE – Advocacy & Community Engagement in Research (ACER) program is officially live!
Be part of shaping cancer research:
💛Join as a Person With Lived Experience
🤝Partner with researchers as someone affected by cancer
📲 Scan to get involved today!
#CHRIM #CCMB #CancerResearch
Be part of shaping cancer research:
💛Join as a Person With Lived Experience
🤝Partner with researchers as someone affected by cancer
📲 Scan to get involved today!
#CHRIM #CCMB #CancerResearch
August 13, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The PROMISE – Advocacy & Community Engagement in Research (ACER) program is officially live!
Be part of shaping cancer research:
💛Join as a Person With Lived Experience
🤝Partner with researchers as someone affected by cancer
📲 Scan to get involved today!
#CHRIM #CCMB #CancerResearch
Be part of shaping cancer research:
💛Join as a Person With Lived Experience
🤝Partner with researchers as someone affected by cancer
📲 Scan to get involved today!
#CHRIM #CCMB #CancerResearch
PROMISE’s official video is now live on www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHnC...
check it out! 🎥 #CCMB #CHRIM #CancerResearch #AYAcancer
check it out! 🎥 #CCMB #CHRIM #CancerResearch #AYAcancer
PROMISE: Pediatric Research in Oncology in Manitoba: Innovation, Science, Excellence
YouTube video by CHRIM Communications
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June 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
PROMISE’s official video is now live on www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHnC...
check it out! 🎥 #CCMB #CHRIM #CancerResearch #AYAcancer
check it out! 🎥 #CCMB #CHRIM #CancerResearch #AYAcancer
Huge thanks to Dr. Jody Haigh, Dr. OgilvieTamra and Dr. Stephanie Villeneuve for presenting their exciting research at PROMISE Research Day! Big shoutout to all the trainees who took part in the poster competition. Amazing work by everyone! 👏 #CCMB #CHRIM #CancerResearch
June 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Huge thanks to Dr. Jody Haigh, Dr. OgilvieTamra and Dr. Stephanie Villeneuve for presenting their exciting research at PROMISE Research Day! Big shoutout to all the trainees who took part in the poster competition. Amazing work by everyone! 👏 #CCMB #CHRIM #CancerResearch