BC Chemical Biologists Win Ono Pharma Breakthrough Science Initiative Award

A collaborative proposal of chemical biologists Eranthie Weerapana and Jianmin Gao has won a Breakthrough Science Initiative Award from the Ono Pharma Foundation. This award provides funding of  $900,000 in direct costs over 3 years. The grant will support efforts by the Gao and Weerapana Labs to interrogate the cell-surface proteome with novel phage libraries. The goal is to use chemically modified phage display as a platform to identify and therapeutically target cell-surface proteins unique to cancer cells.

The Ono Pharma Breakthrough Science Initiative Awards Program is a competitive Awards program that supports high-risk and high-reward science research projects, which have the potential to lead to innovative discoveries with therapeutic potential.