Nephrotic syndrome is the most common glomerular kidney disease in children, a condition that damages…
karnottMarch 26, 2025
Simon Fraser University is proud to bestow honorary degrees on nine outstanding individuals making lasting,…
karnottMarch 26, 2025
In 2020, Ron Pavlakovic received a heart transplant due to his idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy, a…
karnottMarch 25, 2025
The Canada Research Chairs Program enables Canadian universities to achieve the highest levels of research…
karnottMarch 25, 2025
This week, we profile a recent publication in Drug Resistance Updates by Dr. Santiago Ramón-García…
karnottMarch 24, 2025
An innovative new initiative at the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health (DMCBH) is set…
karnottMarch 24, 2025
Congratulations to the four DMCBH members who received UBC’s 2024 Faculty Research Awards. UBC’s Faculty…
karnottMarch 21, 2025
In the LATITUDE trial, addition of abiraterone acetate plus prednisone to androgen deprivation therapy (ADT)…
sciencecityFebruary 1, 2018
Our expanding knowledge of microbial mechanisms is challenging the notion of “good” versus “bad” microbes…
sciencecityJanuary 29, 2018
Reversible protein acetylation is an important regulatory mechanism for modulating protein function. The cellular protein…
sciencecityJanuary 26, 2018
Monogenetic diseases offer clear human validation for launching drug discovery programs in Pharma designed to…
sciencecityJanuary 24, 2018
In this paper, we found that CD44 and its interaction with its ligand, the extracellular…
sciencecityJanuary 22, 2018
Read the Publication This week we profile a recent publication in Bioinformatics from Dr. Inanc…
sciencecityJanuary 19, 2018
Altered mRNA translational control is emerging as a critical factor in cancer development and progression.…
sciencecityJanuary 18, 2018
Mutated cancer antigens, or neoantigens, represent compelling immunological targets and appear to underlie the success…
sciencecityJanuary 16, 2018
With great sadness, we share the announcement of the passing of Professor Dr. Ulrich auf…
sciencecitySeptember 21, 2023
For the first time ever, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute has produced a mini Year in…
sciencecitySeptember 19, 2023
Nominations for the 2024 Clinical Trials BC Awards are now open! These awards honour individuals…
sciencecitySeptember 18, 2023
While people of Asian ancestry make up more than 16 per cent of Canada’s population,…
sciencecitySeptember 18, 2023
Congratulations to Drs. Tao Huan, Manu Madhav and Brett Hilton on being named 2023 Michael…
sciencecitySeptember 14, 2023
Mitacs has opened the call for nominations for the 13th Mitacs Awards. One of Canada’s…
sciencecitySeptember 12, 2023
BriaCell Therapeutics Corp. (TSX:BCT, Nasdaq: BCTX), a Vancouver-Philadelphia oncology immunotherapeutics company, is dividing. The company…
sciencecitySeptember 11, 2023
With great sadness, we share the news that Professor Emerita Dr. Edith (Edie) McGeer passed…
sciencecitySeptember 8, 2023
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has announced the results of its Spring 2021 project…
pthomsonAugust 6, 2021
Earlier this year, two members of the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) were recognized with…
pthomsonAugust 6, 2021
The UBC Faculty of Medicine's Distinguished Achievement Awards recognize faculty members who exemplify exceptional contributions…
pthomsonAugust 5, 2021
Faculty of medicine members Bonnie Henry, Poul Sorensen, Debra Braithwaite and James McEwen have been…
pthomsonAugust 5, 2021
Each year, the Faculty of Medicine recognizes faculty members who exemplify exceptional contributions in the…
pthomsonAugust 5, 2021
Dr. Judy Illes, professor of neurology in the department of medicine’s division of neurology, and…
pthomsonAugust 4, 2021
ongratulations to the BC Children’s and BC Women’s investigators who were awarded funding through the…
pthomsonAugust 4, 2021
Congratulations to Centre of Blood Research (CBR) researchers who received funding as part of the…
pthomsonAugust 3, 2021
