About the Institute

The Arnie Charbonneau Cancer Institute (Charbonneau) is a community of researchers and educators dedicated to achieving a cancer-free future. Charbonneau is meeting the cancer challenge through discovery and innovation in basic and applied research. The Institute brings together scientists and physicians to integrate research and care across disciplines – from understanding and preventing cancer, to transforming its detection and treatment, to improving life with and after cancer. Our members include researchers at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre and the University of Calgary’s Cumming School of Medicine and Teaching Hospitals.

Charbonneau is one of seven health institutes at the University of Calgary. The institutes were established to ‘create the future of health’, and nowhere is this future more challenging than in cancer. Cancer has become the leading cause of death in Canada, eclipsing heart disease (30.2% vs. 19.7%), and the number of new cases in Canada is expected to increase by 40% over the next 15 years. To create a future without cancer, Charbonneau is supporting research that addresses the biological and therapeutic challenge of cancer, the population and public health challenge of cancer, and the personal, family, and societal challenge of cancer.