Morag Park is a breast cancer and genomics researcher at the

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. Park is known for her work on the combination of genetic and

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alterations that result in breast cancer progression and

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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

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and received a

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with first class honors. She received a PhD in viral

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at the Medical Research Council Virology Institute in

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and conducted her post-doctoral research at the National Institutes for Cancer Research in

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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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