Morag Park is a breast cancer and genomics researcher at the
McGill University Health Centre
The McGill University Health Centre (MUHC; french: Centre universitaire de santé McGill) is one of two major healthcare networks in the city of Montreal, Quebec. It is affiliated with McGill University and is one of the largest medical complex in ...
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Park is known for her work on the combination of
genetic and
epigenetic
In biology, epigenetics is the study of stable phenotypic changes (known as ''marks'') that do not involve alterations in the DNA sequence. The Greek prefix '' epi-'' ( "over, outside of, around") in ''epigenetics'' implies features that are "o ...
alterations that result in breast cancer progression and
receptor tyrosine kinases involved in cancer. More recently, she has worked in as primary co-researcher of a Quebec cancer biobank network that creates tumor models derived from patients, allowing for research into why individual patients respond well or poorly to cancer therapies.
She is currently a professor in the Gerald Bronfman Department of Oncology and a member of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at McGill University.
Education
Park conducted her undergraduate studies at
University of Glasgow
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and received a
B.Sc.
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with first class honors. She received a PhD in viral
carcinogenesis
Carcinogenesis, also called oncogenesis or tumorigenesis, is the formation of a cancer, whereby normal cells are transformed into cancer cells. The process is characterized by changes at the cellular, genetic, and epigenetic levels and abnor ...
at the Medical Research Council Virology Institute in
Scotland
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and conducted her post-doctoral research at the National Institutes for Cancer Research in
Washington, DC
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Awards and Honors
2022 Woman of Distinction Award in Research and Innovation
Club de Recherches Cliniques du Québec Michel Sarrazin Award (2021)
Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation Grand Prix Scientifique (2019)
Canadian Cancer Society 2017 Robert L. Noble Prize
2015 Canadian Cancer Research Alliance Award for Exceptional Leadership in Cancer Research
References
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Alumni of the University of Glasgow
Cancer researchers