Research
Our Research Aims
Our research program has two broad scientific aims, each addressed through the work of three integrated work packages:
Aim 1: Map the colorectal cancer microbiome
Work Package 1: The microbiome in cancer risk.
Work Package 2: Epidemiological correlates of the colorectal cancer microbiome.
Work Package 3: Mapping the cellular distribution of the colorectal cancer microbiome.
Aim 2: Understand the clinical impact of modulating the colon cancer microbiome
Work Package 4: Model systems to study the colorectal cancer microbiome.
Work Package 5: The interplay between the microbiota and colorectal cancer treatments.
Work Package 6: Novel treatments involving microbiome modulation.
We also have a public-facing objective: to share and disseminate our data, methodologies and concepts with the scientific, medical and patient communities.
This integrated structure of our program is illustrated in the figure on the right.
Areas of research
Our projects are divided into Work Packages (WP), each focusing on a specific research objective described above.
Research Updates
Henry Wood leads the first study to look at CRC patterns in low- and middle-income countries
Most research in cancer microbiomes is carried out in European and North American patients. Patterns in low- and middle-income countries are often...
Congratulations to Tomotaka Ugai
Congratulations to Tomotaka Ugai, an instructor from Shuji Ogino’s lab, on receiving a Scholar-in-Training Award for his upcoming presentation at...
Microbes are important in human health
Dr. Emma Allen-Vercoe: The Importance of Microbes to Human HealthIn a recent podcast by the Centre for Inquiry Canada, Emma Allen-Vercoe talks about...
