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MD-PhD student Taylor Jamieson-Datzkiw earns the Mitacs Award for Outstanding Innovation 鈥 Indigenous
After initially spending hours glued to YouTube because of an interest in virus鈥 and their role in cancer treatment, 91精品黑料吃瓜 MD-PhD student Taylor Jamieson-Datzkiw is now being recognized for her innovative work to help create new cancer-killing viruses to treat aggressive breast and ovarian cancers when other therapies stop working.
Jamieson-Datzkiw, 27, has been awarded the Mitacs Award for Outstanding Innovation 鈥 Indigenous by Mitacs, a national innovation organization that works with academic institutions to foster growth by solving business challenges with research solutions.
The work of Jamieson-Datzkiw 鈥 a MD-PhD student studying under principal investigators at the University of Ottawa鈥檚 Faculty of Medicine鈥檚 Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology and the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute 鈥 is focused on overcoming resistance to PARP inhibitors, a cancer therapy to which patients often develop resistance.
鈥淓ssentially, I鈥檓 working to find a new option for those patients who鈥檝e run out of options,鈥 said Jamieson-Datzkiw, whose research is targeting BRCA mutated breast and ovarian cancers which can cause aggressive tumours, impacting women and men at a young age. 鈥淢y goal is to create viruses that prevent drug resistance and keep the PARP inhibitor therapy working. It鈥檚 a long process and I鈥檓 laying the groundwork, but I鈥檓 optimistic my cancer-killing viruses will make it to clinic.
鈥淲hat initially drew me in was watching YouTube videos of the team at the Cancer Therapeutic Centre of The Ottawa Hospital, including , they are amazing scientists who drew me into the virus world. They showed just how personalized each treatment is,鈥 says Jamieson-Datzkiw, who spends half of her time working on vaccine development with the COVID-19 pandemic in mind. 鈥淚 went into university wanting to be a cancer researcher because it is such a complex disease and there is so much work to be done in the field.鈥
Jamieson-Datzkiw, a Winnipeg native with Metis roots, is also proud of her involvement in community programs, from to to the Mentorship Program that pairs graduate and undergraduate students together.
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