Our Strategy & Impact

People Behind the Progress

It takes teamwork to bring new treatments to cancer patients. Scientists, patients, and donors make it possible for us to create life-saving therapies. Thanks to our community, we continue to fund groundbreaking scientific studies leading to the next great discoveries. We launch clinical trials that give patients new options and hope. And we bring all of us closer to a world free from the fear of cancer.

Read more below about the important people behind the progress at CRI.

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  • Etienne Gagnon, Ph.D.

    CRI Postdoctoral Fellow Wins Prestigious Award

    Etienne Gagnon, a CRI postdoctoral fellow, was awarded the Canadian Institutes of Health Research 2008 BIOTECanada/Schering-Plough Canada Fellowship.
  • Sharon Belvin's children, LillyBeth and James

    Sharon Belvin: A Cancer "Miracle"

    Sharon was only 22 years old when doctors told her she had advanced melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. An immunotherapy pulled her back from the brink of death. Today, this proud mother of two is still cancer free.
  • Geoffrey O. Coley

    Geoffrey O. Coley Continues His Great-grandfather's Legacy

    Great-nephew of CRI's founder, Helen Coley Nauts, CRI trustee Geoff Coley is committed to furthering the Institute's mission. "We need to speed up the advancement of new vaccines and therapies so we can begin to treat real patients now.”