{"id":617,"date":"2021-10-26T15:20:17","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T20:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/pharmacy\/?p=617"},"modified":"2021-10-27T11:23:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T16:23:00","slug":"new-funding-for-breast-tumor-therapy-during-pregnancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/pharmacy\/new-funding-for-breast-tumor-therapy-during-pregnancy\/","title":{"rendered":"New Funding for Breast Tumor Therapy during Pregnancy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Congratulations to <strong>Dr. Hagar Labouta<\/strong>, assistant professor at the College of Pharmacy, on her successfully acquiring funding from SickKids \u2013 Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health (IHDCYH) New Investigator Grant for her project, titled <em>Safe and Effective Targeted Therapy for Breast Tumor during Early Pregnancy.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/pharmacy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2021\/10\/College-of-Pharmacy-newsletter-Labouta_Hagar-710x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Dr. Hagar Labouta.\" class=\"wp-image-618\" width=\"168\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/pharmacy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2021\/10\/College-of-Pharmacy-newsletter-Labouta_Hagar-710x1024.jpg 710w, https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/pharmacy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2021\/10\/College-of-Pharmacy-newsletter-Labouta_Hagar-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/pharmacy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2021\/10\/College-of-Pharmacy-newsletter-Labouta_Hagar-768x1108.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/pharmacy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2021\/10\/College-of-Pharmacy-newsletter-Labouta_Hagar-600x866.jpg 600w, https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/pharmacy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2021\/10\/College-of-Pharmacy-newsletter-Labouta_Hagar-900x1299.jpg 900w, https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/pharmacy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2021\/10\/College-of-Pharmacy-newsletter-Labouta_Hagar.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Drug prescribing in pregnancy remains a complex issue for pregnant women and clinicians. For this New Investigator Research Grant, Dr. Labouta and her team aim to develop new effective and safe nanotherapies to treat pregnancy-associated breast cancer, a challenging clinical condition that currently lacks any efficient treatment option without fetal health concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Specifically, her team will use microfluidic lab-on-a-chip models for designing the nanoparticles and will develop dynamic organ-on-a-chip models for evaluating nanoparticles under conditions mimicking the physiological environments<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFunding of the proposed project will support the use of high-resolution tools and models, established in my lab, and will help establish my lab as a leading center of translational prenatal cancer nanomedicine research,\u201d said Labouta of the importance of the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Dr. Hagar Labouta, assistant professor at the College of Pharmacy, on her successfully acquiring funding from SickKids \u2013 Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health (IHDCYH) New Investigator Grant for her project, titled Safe and Effective Targeted Therapy for Breast Tumor during Early Pregnancy. 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