Established in 2009, the Career Research Award is a biennial award that recognizes the career…
karnottJune 5, 2024
British Columbia has been selected as the test bed for a potentially game-changing genomics project…
karnottJune 4, 2024
The objective of the Blood Efficiency Accelerator Program is to improve the efficient and appropriate…
karnottJune 3, 2024
Dr. Sally Otto (pictured) —a theoretical biologist focused on fundamental questions of population genetics and…
karnottJune 1, 2024
Faculty of Health Sciences PhD candidate Amanda Rowlands has a new award to add to…
karnottMay 31, 2024
According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer, one in five people will be…
karnottMay 31, 2024
Food allergies affect nearly 600,000 Canadian children and one in two Canadian households. But a…
karnottMay 30, 2024
The pancreas is a complex organ with exocrine and endocrine components. Many pathologies impair exocrine…
sciencecityAugust 29, 2017
The general focus of our UBC Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) research group is to improve diagnosis…
sciencecityAugust 28, 2017
We tested our lead anti-AR DBD inhibitor, VPC-14449, on a panel of anti-androgen resistant prostate…
sciencecityAugust 25, 2017
These gene mutations are the latest discovered in epilepsy, and enable a much faster more…
sciencecityAugust 23, 2017
Bacterial sporulation allows starving cells to differentiate into metabolically dormant spores that can survive extreme…
sciencecityAugust 21, 2017
β-cell dysfunction and apoptosis associated with islet inflammation play a key role in the pathogenesis…
sciencecityAugust 18, 2017
Infants born preterm are highly susceptible to various environmental stressors during their first few weeks…
sciencecityAugust 17, 2017
Somatic evolution of malignant cells produces tumors composed of multiple clonal populations, distinguished in part…
sciencecityAugust 15, 2017
A new labour market intelligence (LMI) study that will help provide a better understanding of…
pthomsonJuly 20, 2022
Dr. Govind Kaigala has been appointed Senior Research Scientist at our Centre. Dr. Kaigala (PhD) was…
pthomsonJuly 20, 2022
Cervical cancer remains one of the deadliest cancers among women around the world. Vanessa Porter,…
pthomsonJuly 19, 2022
Based on previous work by Dr. Helen Tremlett, there is emerging evidence that a prodromal stage exists…
pthomsonJuly 18, 2022
In recent years, emu farming has become popular worldwide as a means of producing emu…
pthomsonJuly 18, 2022
Everyone has a gut microbiome, full of trillions of microbes that influence our health. These…
pthomsonJuly 15, 2022
New research, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, and spearheaded…
pthomsonJuly 15, 2022
It’s often said about organ transplants that by fixing one problem you are creating another.…
pthomsonJuly 13, 2022
Aniqa Shahid, a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS), has been successful…
eabramovichJuly 15, 2020
Growth and evolution lead in a world that’s built on change. This is a guiding…
eabramovichJuly 13, 2020
Céline Laumont, a postdoctoral fellow in the Faculty of Medicine’s Department of Medical Genetics, is…
eabramovichJuly 2, 2020
Amanda Cheung, a neuroscience PhD student in the UBC Faculty of Medicine, is among those…
eabramovichJuly 1, 2020
Nineteen Faculty of Medicine members received funding by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), through…
eabramovichJuly 1, 2020
UBC microbiologists and chemists have received $2.5 million in support of research aimed at addressing…
eabramovichJune 30, 2020
Researchers at the Life Sciences Institute have received a total of $3,318,600 in the latest…
eabramovichJune 30, 2020
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) announced today the successful projects from the Rapid Research Funding Opportunity launched…
eabramovichJune 29, 2020
