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Cancer Populomix Institute

New cancer research center launched in Canada

Published in Health Insurance Week, February 26th, 2006

The Cancer Populomix Institute (CPxI), a new Eastern Canada organization that will do research on the prevention and early detection of cancer, was launched in February.

CPxI chairman Warren McKenzie announced the launch of the institute joined by Premier Bernard Lord, Lee Hartwell, president and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and winner of the Nobel Prize in medicine for 2001.

The institute is the result of a collaborative effort among leading eastern Canadian research institutions, with the goal of substantially enhancing the region's research capabilities in the critical area of early cancer detection. CPxI has already...

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