Project Details

CWSF 2005 - Vancouver, British Columbia

Using Viruses to Kill Cancer

Division:	Health Sciences
Category:	Intermediate
Region:	Bay Area
City:	Hamilton, ON
School:	St. Thomas More Catholic Secondary School
Abstract:	This experiment investigates the role of a double-mutant HSV-1 (KM110r) to determine if it is a safe and effective oncolytic virus therapy. Thorough in-vitro proliferation assay and morphological analyses prove that KM110r can successfully destroy all cancerous cells under physiological conditions and completely ignore all non-cancerous cells despite induced genetic differentiation.

Awards	Value
Canadian Society for Medical Laboratory Science Award Intermediate Sponsor: Canadian Society for Medical Laboratory Science	$750.00
Genome Canada Awards Intermediate - Third place Sponsor: Genome Canada	$500.00
The University of Western Ontario Scholarship Gold Medallist - $2000 Entrance Scholarship Sponsor: University of Western Ontario	$2 000.00
Gold Medal - Health Sciences Intermediate Sponsor: Canadian Institutes of Health Research	$1 500.00
EnCana Platinum Award - Best Intermediate Project Sponsor: Encana Corporation	$5 000.00
EnCana Best in Fair Award Sponsor: Encana Corporation	$10 000.00
Total	$19 750.00