Health Informatics & Data Science awardees share their research with the Network

On Thursday, December 18, recipients of 2024 and 2025 Health Informatics & Data Science Awards presented their research to Network members as part of the MOHCCN seminar series. 

This series provides a platform for trainees to share their research with the wider Network and beyond through short, plain-language presentations about how they're using Network-generated "big data" and disruptive technologies to advance cancer research and care.

This event was co-chaired by Debbie Duclos, a member of the MOHCCN Patient Working Group, and by Véronique LeBlanc, PhD, Network Program Manager and Scientific Writer, TFRI.

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Opening Remarks

André Veillette, MD - Executive Director, MOHCCN

 Rapid-fire Talks

Unsupervised histopathology search engine for diagnosis of primary and metastatic cancers (CANCERCH)

• Ali Khajegili Mirabadi - PhD candidate, AI in Medicine (AIM) Lab, University of British Columbia
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Automatic Referral of Basal Cell Carcinoma Patients: A Natural Language Processing Approach

• Parsa Bagherzadeh - (at the time of award) Postdoctoral fellow, Shirin Abbasinejad Enger lab, Department of Oncology, McGill University
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Immune patterns predict longer survival in pancreatic cancer

• Riley Arseneau - PhD candidate, Jeanette Boudreau lab, Dalhousie University
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Leveraging a Data-Sharing Infrastructure for Pan-Cancer Circular RNA Profiling and Clinical Validation

• Peter Her - PhD candidate, Housheng Hansen He and Benjamin Haibe-Kains labs, Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto
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• Michael Geuenich - PhD candidate, Kieran Campbell lab, University of Toronto
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This event was co-chaired by Debbie Duclos, a member of the MOHCCN Patient Working Group, and by Véronique LeBlanc, PhD, Network Program Manager and Scientific Writer, TFRI.