The startup is working on a first-in-class precision medicine that will prevent secondary metastatic brain cancer. It's an innovation that could revolutionize the future of cancer care.
Research at the McMaster University and the Cleveland Clinic and Case Comprehensive Cancer Center have uncovered how a protein long associated with Alzheimer’s disease helps lung cancer spread to the brain – offering hope that an existing drug could be repurposed in preventing cancer’s spread.
The Hamilton Regional Biospecimen Services program will create a single system for collecting, storing, analyzing and sharing biological samples for research between McMaster University, Hamilton Health Sciences and St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton.