News and Updates
New funding available for research using OHS data
Aug 8, 2022 // Study Updates
A new funding opportunity from the CIHR Institute of Cancer Research (CIHR-ICR) is available and provides up to $500,000 to use provincial data from the OHS, or to use pan-Canadian data from the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow’s Health (CanPath). Up to $100,000 over one year will be awarded for a single grant. The goal of
OHS data included in multi-study analysis of Canada’s “Omicron tsunami”
Jul 20, 2022 // Study Updates
Omicron tsunami: Blood spot samples from thousands of OHS participants were included in a multi-study analysis showing the proportion of Canadians with antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 due to infection shot up, from 5.1 per cent just before the Delta variant wave (August, 2021), to 55.7 per cent in the five months after the Omicron wave (May,
CanPath Webinar: Trainee Research: Using Population Cohorts to Enable Early Cancer Detection
Jun 16, 2022 // Study Updates
Nicholas Cheng provides an overview of his study on identifying early cancer biomarkers in pre-diagnosis blood samples collected from more than 400 OHS participants. He demonstrates how blood signatures can be used to detect breast, prostate and pancreatic cancers years prior to clinical detection using cfDNA methylation profiles. Kimberly Skead describes her work studying how the interacting
4 Reasons Researchers Choose the Ontario Health Study
May 4, 2022 // Study Updates
What makes the OHS platform such a useful resource for researchers? OHS Scientific Associate and Epidemiologist Dr. Victoria Kirsh explains what makes the Study so unique: The OHS is designed specifically for investigator-initiated research The OHS enables both retrospective and prospective research The OHS is Ontario’s largest biobank, and is the largest contributing cohort to
