Dr. Landon Edgar awarded the Fall 2024 Early Career Researcher in Cancer Award
Faculty News
Congratulations to Dr. Landon Edgar for being one of the awardees of the Fall 2024 Early Career Researcher in Cancer Award!
As part of its commitment to capacity building in the Canadian cancer research landscape, the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) established the Early Career Researcher in Cancer Award in 2019 to recognize early career research excellence and help support awardees' research programs. This award is given to early career researchers with the highest-ranked applications in the Project Grant competition that fall within ICR's mandate. ICR congratulates the recipients of the Fall 2024 Early Career Researcher Award in Cancer!
Dr. Landon Edgar is a chemical immunologist with expertise in single cell analysis technologies. His interdisciplinary team deploys methods from organic chemistry, biochemistry, and cell engineering to study and manipulate the immune system, with a focus on the roles of carbohydrates in health and disease. The Edgar Lab's goal is to program synthetic immune responses by engineering the interfaces through which immune cells communicate. Their work is providing the foundational knowledge required to design next-generation therapeutics.
