Nada Jabado honoured with Outstanding Achievements in Cancer Research award 

Renowned pediatric cancer expert recognized by the Canadian Cancer Research Alliance at its national conference on November 2, 2025

SOURCE: CCRA
November 14, 2025

The CCRA Awards, initiated in 2011, recognize and celebrate on a biennial basis the outstanding contributions of individuals who have had a remarkable impact on cancer research and the cancer research community.

Dr. Nada Jabado, recipient of the award for Outstanding Achievements in Cancer Research, is a Senior Scientist in the Child Health and Human Development Program at the Centre for Translational Biology, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, and Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at McGill University. She is recognized for her groundbreaking discovery of regulatory histone mutations as a fundamental cancer hallmark and her paradigm-shifting finding that brain tumours arise from stalled development in embryonic neural hierarchies – work that has transformed our understanding of pediatric and young adult brain tumours and opened new avenues for diagnosis and treatment.

Read the full CCRA announcement.

Read the CCRA’s interview with Dr. Jabado.