How can we enhance support for cancer survivors and caregivers? For more than two decades,…
karnottJanuary 12, 2024
Unlike adult cancers, which are often linked to lifestyle and environmental risk factors, the cause…
karnottJanuary 10, 2024
SandboxAQ today announced it has acquired Good Chemistry, a leading computational chemistry company that leverages…
karnottJanuary 10, 2024
The intent of this competition is to support early career clinician investigators affiliated with PHC…
karnottJanuary 9, 2024
Dr. Carol-Ann Courneya completed her PhD at UBC in 1987 under the supervision of Dr.…
karnottJanuary 9, 2024
We are pleased to announce that Diana Djaksigulova, graduate student at the Kuchenbauer Lab, has…
karnottJanuary 9, 2024
Sixteen projects led by Faculty of Medicine researchers have received new funding from Michael Smith…
karnottJanuary 5, 2024
his is a major Canadian study performed by the Canadian BMT Group and including centres…
sciencecityOctober 10, 2017
Asthma-COPD overlap syndrome (ACOS) or asthma-COPD overlap captures the subset of patients with airways disease…
sciencecityOctober 9, 2017
Islet macrophages reside in the perivascular space next to islet blood vessels. They are long-lived…
sciencecityOctober 5, 2017
In this study we used a mouse model of acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the most common…
sciencecityOctober 3, 2017
In this study we inserted lumbar drains in patients with acute SCI, and evaluated how…
sciencecityOctober 2, 2017
The bacterial flagellum is a complex multi-component structure including a whip-like appendage, the flagellar filament,…
sciencecitySeptember 29, 2017
First, we show that models of depression in mouse produce brain function changes resembling those…
sciencecitySeptember 28, 2017
Engineered T-cell receptors (TCRs) have tremendous therapeutic potential for targeted, T-cell-mediated killing of infected or…
sciencecitySeptember 26, 2017
Patient-derived explants (PDEs, also sometimes called “tumour organoids”)—a type of model system (ex vivo) used to…
pthomsonApril 22, 2022
Like most funders, Michael Smith Health Research BC requires award holders to complete annual progress…
pthomsonApril 19, 2022
Blood clots are part of our body’s response to injury, restricting the flow of blood…
pthomsonApril 19, 2022
Ovarian cancer is a confounding disease. In the beginning stages it is readily treatable, but…
pthomsonApril 15, 2022
Dr. Poul Sorensen’s breakthrough cancer research has saved countless lives. But he thinks we can…
pthomsonApril 15, 2022
Cardiovascular events like heart attack and stroke account for almost 20% of all deaths in…
pthomsonApril 14, 2022
When most people think about mRNA, they imagine the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna jab: the chill…
pthomsonApril 14, 2022
It has been 100 years since Canadian scientists discovered insulin as a treatment for Type-1…
pthomsonApril 14, 2022
Twenty-six research excellence clusters led by researchers on the Vancouver campus will be funded through…
sciencecityJanuary 15, 2020
Congratulations to Dr. Ly Vu who has been awarded a three-year Basic/Translational Fellow to Faculty…
sciencecityJanuary 14, 2020
Dr. Wilfred Jefferies at the Michael Smith Laboratories has been elected as a Fellow of…
sciencecityJanuary 6, 2020
New funding from a partnership of SickKids Hospital and the CIHR Institute for Human Development,…
sciencecityDecember 20, 2019
The American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) announced this week that Dr. Stan Floresco (pictured) is the recpient…
sciencecityDecember 17, 2019
Dr. Leonard Foster‘s students describes him as an outstanding scientist and mentor who cares deeply…
sciencecityDecember 10, 2019
The Women’s Health Research Institute (WHRI) is very pleased to congratulate the recipients of the…
sciencecityDecember 10, 2019
Professor Wilfred Jefferies’ innovative strategies and outstanding inventions that enable cancer immunotherapies and vaccines have…
sciencecityDecember 4, 2019
