Phase 1 Innovation Report - Key Impact #3:
Funding impactful cancer research to accelerate the deployment of precision oncology
Learn more about the 200+ high-impact, Network-funded research projects and other ways MOHCCN is helping transform cancer care: tinyurl.com/mr3n3e5u
Team is growing!!!
As a cancer patient, caregiver or family member — what do you want to know about #precisionmedicine?
See below for your opportunity to make your voice heard.
Please welcome our newest members to the DHDP. We are so excited to have you join our growing network. www.dhdp.ca/membership/m...
Please join us: lnkd.in/e_i6rBJs or update your membership and contact details: lnkd.in/gukiWap5
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Welcome new members!
Please welcome our newest members to the Digital Health & Discovery Platform. We are so excited to have you join our growing network.
www.dhdp.ca/membership/m...
Please join us: www.dhdp.ca/membership/j... or update your membership & contact details: www.dhdp.ca/contact-us
#ThrowbackThursday: March 2025 we announced our Digital Health Innovation Fund....our socials went viral and the interest generated 200+ EOIs following RFA go live a week later. The RFA is now closed and we're preparing to announce the successful projects shortly.
www.dhdp.ca/updates/news...
For Brain Health Awareness Month: using AI to explore health data for signatures that can predict brain tumour reoccurrence
#precisiononcology #personalizedmedicine #precisionmedicine #datasharing
@marathonofhope.bsky.social Patient Working Group is inviting cancer patients in Canada, and their family members and caregivers, to participate in their first Pan-Canadian Patient Forum!
Register Apr 26 (EN): tfri.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
and May 3 (FR): tfri.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Team work makes the dream work
An incredible and truly valuable achievement
Pankhuri Gupta - Technical Product and Delivery Lead, DHDP
Her impact: Helping to build the Digital Health & Discovery Platform which brings together Canadian AI expertise and precision medicine to improve healthcare for Canadians
@dhdp-ca.bsky.social
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@terryfoxresearch.bsky.social and @medteq.bsky.social join forces to mobilize the Canadian Digital Health Ecosystem, help launch an Innovation Fund
www.dhdp.ca/updates/news...
Congratulations to TFRI's @marathonofhope.bsky.social executive director, Dr. André Veillette, and his team at IRCM & UdeM on discovering SLAMF6, an internal brake on the immune system, and developing antibodies to neutralize it.
Learn more about this breakthrough: www.tfri.ca/updates/news...
📣Participants needed! Help shape the future of clinical trials📣
Researchers working on a Patient Voices in Research Initiative are conducting a study to develop recommendations for ensuring that future cancer clinical trials are person-centered and accessible.
Learn more: tinyurl.com/3bym3atc
For the first time, TFRI is investing directly in cancer prevention, partnering with CIHR & CCS, and investing $10M to support projects that deepen our understanding of cancer development and advance early detection and risk reduction.
Learn more: tinyurl.com/a2untpve
A landmark initiative investing in cancer prevention
Rare Disease Day 2026
Rare diseases, defined as affecting fewer than one person in 2,000, affect around 300 million worldwide.
Rare disease affects around 1 in 12 Canadians or 3 million people.
This is figure 1, which gives an overview of OpenScholar, ScholarQABench and evaluation results.
A paper in Nature presents OpenScholar, an open-source language model that can outperform commercial large language models in performing accurate literature reviews. go.nature.com/3MozzFq #Academicsky 🧪
It all started with one.
Now we’re 15,000 strong.
In 2021, we set out to create Canada’s largest and most complete cancer resource: the Gold Cohort.
Today, over 15,000 genomes have been sequenced.
Get the full story on this exciting milestone:
tinyurl.com/4epbrf6a
Year in Review 2025
Our RFA launch went viral in March.
Quiz: How many data points will projects bring to the Platform in 2026
1. 39+ M
2. 3+ M
3. 15,768,003
Find out in our Year in Review and see how the projects will enhance our ‘built by users for users’ approach: www.dhdp.ca/year-in-review
Graphic titled, "Terry Fox Research Institute Year in Review." Image is of a apple core on a beach with fireworks in the sky. Subtitle reads, "Digital Health & Discovery Platform Official Sandbox Launch.
Terry Fox Research Institute Year in Review: September 2025
The Digital Health & Discovery Platform sandbox reached full launch, letting Digital Health Innovation Fund applicants safely test features. Feedback is refining the platform ahead of its January 2026 go-live release
tinyurl.com/32hybdws
Graphic titled, "Terry Fox Research Institute Year in Review." Photo shows a doctor accessing health data on a tablet, renderings of the human body, brain, and DNA swirl around them. Subtitle reads, "A year of exceptional growth for the Digital Health & Discovery Platform."
Terry Fox Research Institute Year in Review: December 2025
The Digital Health & Discovery Platform unveiled its 2025 Year in Review highlighting the DHDP’s exceptional growth and development over the past year.
Stay tuned. Big things coming for DHDP in 2026!
Learn more: tinyurl.com/y28knjt5
We’re excited to announce the appointment of the national director of the Digital Health & Discovery Platform, Josip Maras.
With 15+ years in health tech and business, Josip is well suited to advance the DHDP in the AI-driven health data ecosystem.
Read the full announcement: tinyurl.com/398adtpp
Meet the team and our new director! Roaring into 2026
Our Year in Review post was a fun one too pull together; even more fun to parcel out for socials! #precisionmedicine #aiml #CanSci #datasharing
Ever wondered why #precisiononcology is so important in cancer treatment? This study, partially funded by marathonofhope.bsky.social, shows that molecular profiling at diagnosis could help select treatment for best patient outcomes.
DHDP: accelerating #precisionmedicine using big data & #AI
What's happening inside Canada's solution to #precisionmedicine #datasharing....
