A decreased ability to repair oxidative DNA damage, due to melatonin suppression, is a compelling…
karnottMarch 4, 2025
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has announced the awardees for the Fall 2024…
karnottMarch 3, 2025
The Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the greater UBC community honour the life of…
karnottMarch 3, 2025
Variational AI, the company behind Enki, an advanced foundation model for small molecule drug discovery,…
karnottFebruary 28, 2025
Congratulations to Dr Kishor Wasan on being named the 2025 MD Anderson Distinguished Alumnus! Dr…
karnottFebruary 28, 2025
In a new study, researchers from the UBC Faculty of Medicine and University of Pennsylvania…
karnottFebruary 27, 2025
Our current understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying amyloidogenesis in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is limited…
karnottFebruary 27, 2025
The first generation of immune checkpoint inhibitors (anti-CTLA-4 and anti-PD-1/PD-L1) targeted natural immune homeostasis pathways,…
sciencecityOctober 25, 2017
This work was spearheaded by a former graduate student Michael Jones (5th from left) who…
sciencecityOctober 23, 2017
The striking and ubiquitous in vitro affinity between hemin and DNA/RNA G-quadruplexes raises the intriguing…
sciencecityOctober 20, 2017
When a cell responds to DNA damage it must coordinate DNA repair with changes in…
sciencecityOctober 18, 2017
Much of the published studies have focused on the Atg1 complex from budding yeast Saccharomyces…
sciencecityOctober 17, 2017
Oncogenic gene fusions involving Neuregulin 1 (NRG1) have been described as recurrent aberrations in lung…
sciencecityOctober 12, 2017
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
More than 30 previously unknown RNA viruses in sea lice have been identified by University…
sciencecityJune 27, 2023
Congratulations to this year's recipients of the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute Team Grant Awards!…
pthomsonJune 23, 2023
A recent study conducted by researchers at BC Cancer has shed light on the cause…
pthomsonJune 23, 2023
You may have heard of the term “lipid nanoparticles (LNPs)” during the recent coronavirus 2019…
pthomsonJune 22, 2023
Wildfires, dust storms, heatwaves and other extreme events linked to climate change will have profound…
pthomsonJune 21, 2023
The findings, published in Nature Communications, show alanine’s potential as a treatment for cancers characterized by…
sciencecityJune 20, 2023
Over 60 outstanding scientists from all over the globe have joined the Royal Society as…
pthomsonMay 7, 2021
Congratulations to Lauren Wilkinson (Hay Lab) who has been awarded a BioCanRx Summer Studentship for…
pthomsonMay 7, 2021
Congratulations to Dr. Kuchenbauer for receiving $50,000 USD in Proteona’s ESCAPE™ multi-omic single cell analysis…
pthomsonMay 7, 2021
Congratulations to Dr. Florian Kuchenbauer for receiving a grant for his work entitled “Exploring APOBECs…
pthomsonMay 6, 2021
Congratulations to Louis-Alexandre Fournier (Stirling Lab) who has been awarded a CIHR Doctoral Award (Frederick…
pthomsonMay 6, 2021
Congratulations to Dr. Hugh Kim for receiving a NCOHR New Frontier Seed Grant! Dr. Kim brought…
pthomsonMay 6, 2021
Dr. Veronica Hirsch-Reinshagen (pictured) received a VCHRI Investigator Award for her work on MRI and…
pthomsonMay 3, 2021
A recipient of numerous awards, Dr. Marra is one of the world’s most cited scientists in the…
pthomsonApril 30, 2021
