Have you worn a waterproof garment recently or used a piece of non-stick cookware? Chances…
karnottJanuary 31, 2025
Platelets are an essential component of hemorrhage control and management, and engineering platelets to express…
karnottJanuary 30, 2025
Borealis Biosciences, a next-generation RNA medicines company, announced the appointment of Christian Hordo as CEO;…
karnottJanuary 29, 2025
A pair of new research projects are unlocking nature’s potential to solve two critical issues:…
karnottJanuary 29, 2025
The School of Biomedical Engineering is pleased to welcome Dr. Yanpu He to our faculty…
karnottJanuary 28, 2025
The first study of its kind into low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) on a…
karnottJanuary 28, 2025
The Ministry of Innovation, Science and Economic Development announced funding to establish the National Invention…
karnottJanuary 28, 2025
Engineered T-cell receptors (TCRs) have tremendous therapeutic potential for targeted, T-cell-mediated killing of infected or…
sciencecitySeptember 26, 2017
Cancers, including Hodgkin lymphoma can change their face over time. Specifically in Hodgkin lymphoma, we…
sciencecitySeptember 25, 2017
Due to their unique optical and electromagnetic properties, inorganic nanoparticles are extremely promising for therapeutics…
sciencecitySeptember 22, 2017
We present the structures of Type IV pili from two bacterial pathogens of major medical…
sciencecitySeptember 21, 2017
In synovial sarcoma, there is a known oncogene, SS18-SSX, but we have no drugs that…
sciencecitySeptember 19, 2017
A key challenge to traditional genome wide association studies (GWAS) is that many identified genetic…
sciencecitySeptember 18, 2017
Our paper reports an important regulatory relationship between occluding junctions and hematopoietic progenitors. We believe,…
sciencecitySeptember 15, 2017
Plant defenses often involve specialized cells and tissues. In conifers, specialized cells of the bark…
sciencecitySeptember 13, 2017
Aspect Biosystems, a Vancouver life sciences company that uses 3D bioprinting to grow human cells…
pthomsonApril 13, 2023
Between 5-50% of COVID-19 survivors are estimated to develop long-COVID (LC), which includes diverse symptoms…
pthomsonApril 12, 2023
Researchers at Simon Fraser University are studying the genes of superbugs to aid the development…
pthomsonApril 7, 2023
Researchers have found a link between the reduced activity of a mood-regulating neurotransmitter in the…
pthomsonApril 6, 2023
What if we could test for and treat a disease before noticing symptoms? Researchers at…
pthomsonApril 5, 2023
New University of British Columbia research is challenging a longstanding assumption that a baby’s gut…
pthomsonApril 4, 2023
Gandeeva Therapeutics, Inc., a precision medicine company focused on designing and developing novel therapeutics guided…
pthomsonMarch 31, 2023
A Vancouver-based therapeutics company has begun a second Phase II trial of its novel long…
pthomsonMarch 30, 2023
Dr. Colin Collins has been awarded a five-year CIHR Project Grant for "Uncovering early mediators…
sciencecityMarch 10, 2021
Nine LSI research groups have been awarded funding through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research…
sciencecityMarch 9, 2021
Colijn, a Canada 150 Research Chair in Mathematics for Evolution, Infection and Public Health has…
sciencecityMarch 8, 2021
Scientists at UBC’s faculty of medicine have received more than $8 million as part of…
sciencecityMarch 8, 2021
We are proud to share that UBC Orthopaedics Faculty members, Drs. Brian Kwon and Babak Shadgan, have been…
sciencecityMarch 5, 2021
Faculty of medicine researchers have been awarded funding for patient-care research and commercialization through two competitions administered…
sciencecityMarch 5, 2021
On February 25, 2021, UBC’s School of Biomedical Engineering held its first Three Minute Thesis…
sciencecityMarch 4, 2021
A number of faculty of medicine researchers have been awarded funding through the 2020 MSFHR Convening…
sciencecityMarch 2, 2021
