Sunday, Feb. 3, 2002
Dr. Hoyun Lee, a career scientist in molecular biology and lab director at the Northeastern Ontario Regional Cancer Centre, has been awarded the Premier's Research Excellence Award.
Lee will receive $100,000 from the Ontario government and $50,000 from the Northeastern Cancer Research Foundation.
This is the first time the prestigious award has been given to a researcher from Northern Ontario.
"I am pleased that Dr. Lee's research has been recognized in such a prestigious way," said Dr. Randy Bissett, vice-president of Cancer Care Ontario and chief executive officer of the Northeastern Ontario Regional Cancer Centre.
"This award reflects Dr. Lee's important contribution and the calibre of research underway here at the centre."
Lee's research focuses on cell-centre control and DNA replication. The awards were created in 1998 to help Ontario's world-class researchers in attracting talented people to their research teams and to encourage innovation among the province's brightest young scientists at universities, colleges, hospitals and research institutes.
"Providing funding for this type of cutting edge research will foster long-term research and bring us closer to treatments for cancers," said Maureen Lacroix, chair of the Northern Cancer Research Foundation and co-chair of Sudbury's Heart and Soul Campaign.
"I am delighted to be the recipient of this award," said Lee. "I would like to contribute this award to my research team, my tumour biology colleagues, the Northern Cancer Research Foundation and the Northeastern Ontario Regional Cancer Centre leadership."
