Cancer Fact: A third of cancers could be cured if detected early and treated adequately. [Source: World Health Organization]
Get your Derby On!
Vancouver technology companies are once again being challenged to design and build soap box cars that will be raced to raise money for the Canary Foundation, an organization dedicated to funding early cancer detection and intervention.
Canary Derby cars are built by corporate or private teams and are unpowered, relying completely upon gravity. The Canary Foundation provides guidelines for the construction of the cars with each team building and racing them! Teams also raise money and all proceeds going to support cancer early detection.
Join Webnames.ca at Deer Lake Park on Saturday, September 25th for a fun filled day of soapbox car racing, BBQ, kid friendly activities, great people and lots of laughs. [More about Race Day]
Get Involved
Here are three ways you can get involved:
1) Contribute to Team Webnames.ca or one of our team member’s fundraising efforts
2) Enter a Team in the 2010 Vancouver Canary Derby
3) Come out on September 25, 2010 to show support for early detection of cancer and your team!
About Canary Foundation of Canada
Canary Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to the goal of identifying cancer early through a simple blood test and then isolating it with imaging. Canary Foundation has always sought the best researchers and has taken steps to ensure the most expedient accomplishment of its mission.
Canary founder Don Listwin was born and raised in Canada, but Canary’s initial foray into the north was primarily because of the connection between researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the BC Cancer Agency particularly Dr. Nicole Urban and Dr. Brad Nelson. They had worked together on research to create a simple blood test to screen women for ovarian cancer, and both have since expanded their work to study other tumor types.
Much of the additional funding raised through the BC Cancer Foundation has been through Canary board member Michael Ball’s vision of a soapbox derby fundraiser in Victoria and Vancouver, BC. Funds raised through the 2007 Canary Derby helped to purchase the Biacore X100, which enabled Dr. Brad Nelson’s research team to develop immunoassays at a greatly accelerated pace. Before the arrival of the Biacore X100, it could take anywhere from several weeks to several months to identify pairs of antibodies that work well together in an immunoassay. The new equipment reduces or eliminates the need to scale up, purify, and label antibodies, such that the process can be accomplished in a matter of days.
Canary Foundation has committed additional funds to Dr. Nelson’s lab to expand resources to meet the projected increased demand for antigens, antibodies and immunoassays resulting from the expansion of Canary Foundation’s mission to include the early detection of pancreatic, lung and prostate cancer.
Canary continues to bring together the finest scientists and medical researchers in varied fields so that they can connect their research endeavors, and so that a breakthrough in one place today can be shared and leveraged tomorrow by other researchers.
All funds raised stay right here in Canada!
For more information, please visit: http://www.canaryfoundation.org/canary-canada.cfm.
