The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) is an innovative translational research institute dedicated to research on the prevention, early detection, diagnosis and treatment of cancer. This month, OICR’s online newsletter ‘Portal’ has a fascinating story about Dr. Michael Taylor and his reserach into medullobastomas.

Michael Taylor wants to find a novel treatment for the leading cause of death in pediatric cancer in Canada; One that won’t harm the developing brain of his young patients, lead to secondary cancers or prevent them from being able to hold a full-time job when they grow up. In his lab at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Taylor uses experience gained from 15 years of clinical and scientific post-secondary education and 24 years of biomedical research to help in his quest to increase the quality of life and survival of children with brain tumours (medullobastomas)… Read the rest of the story here.