Four of Canada’s leading clinician scientists and researchers in heart health, brain health and cancer have been singled out by the University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine for their scientific accomplishments, and for their potential to make further contributions in their fields.
The eighth annual Margolese National Heart Disorders Prize will be shared this year by two UBC faculty members: Andrew Krahn, the Head of the Division of Cardiology, for his work on detecting and managing heart rhythm disorders, and Bruce McManus, a Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, who has parlayed his insights into inflammatory heart and vascular diseases and transplant vascular disease into the development of diagnostic or predictor biomarkers for heart, lung and kidney failure.
The Margolese National Brain Disorders Prize will be bestowed on the University of Toronto’s Kullervo Hynynen, who has pioneered the use of ultrasound as tool for brain surgery.
The fifth annual Dr. Chew Wei Memorial Prize in Cancer Research will be awarded to Martin Gleave, Head of UBC’s Department of Urologic Sciences, who has relentlessly pursued solutions – in the lab and through clinical trials – to the challenge of treatment-induced resistance in prostate cancer.
