The brain is the most complex organ to understand, both in health and disease. Today,…
karnottApril 30, 2026
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) has announced major new funding through its…
karnottApril 29, 2026
On a clear summer evening in August, the air buzzed with excitement as guests bustled…
karnottApril 29, 2026
Congratulations to BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute (BCCHR) and Women’s Health Research Institute (WHRI) investigators…
karnottApril 28, 2026
Genetrack Biolabs, working in partnership with Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre as part of…
karnottApril 28, 2026
The study, published in Nature Metabolism, shows for the first time that healthy neurons in…
karnottApril 27, 2026
Breast cancer can develop over a wide age range and tumors in younger women differ…
karnottApril 27, 2026
Psychological stress confers an increased risk for several diseases including psychiatric conditions. The susceptibility to…
sciencecityOctober 12, 2023
Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) is highly heterogeneous, and tools to better delineate pathophysiology and…
sciencecityOctober 6, 2023
Placental insufficiency disorders, including preeclampsia and intrauterine growth restriction, are major obstetric complications that can…
sciencecityOctober 3, 2023
While single-cell sequencing technologies provide unprecedented insights into genomic profiles at the cellular level, they…
sciencecitySeptember 29, 2023
Psychiatric morbidity is common after an MS diagnosis. However, little is known about psychiatric morbidity…
sciencecitySeptember 28, 2023
Read the Publication This week we profile a recent publication in Science Advances from the…
sciencecitySeptember 25, 2023
As the primary innate immune cells of the brain, microglia respond to damage and disease…
sciencecitySeptember 21, 2023
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) exhibits elevated levels of autophagy which promote tumor progression and treatment…
sciencecitySeptember 15, 2023
Dr. Megan Levings and her team have recently published two papers on the very different…
karnottDecember 18, 2025
As genetic testing becomes part of routine health care, one question looms large: who helps…
karnottDecember 17, 2025
On November 12, 2025, HLI PIs Drs. Pat Camp and Graeme Koelwyn and Science and…
karnottDecember 16, 2025
The seed2STEM Summer Research Program for Indigenous Youth increases Indigenous representation in science, technology, engineering…
karnottDecember 12, 2025
Research Infosource Inc., Canada’s premier research, consulting and publishing firm, has released its annual ranking…
karnottDecember 12, 2025
Acuitas Therapeutics, a global leader in lipid nanoparticle (LNP) delivery systems, recently announced the publication…
karnottDecember 11, 2025
Researchers identified eight indicators of cardiogenic shock to help emergency responders and health care teams…
karnottDecember 11, 2025
Canadian researchers are raising concerns that the loss of a dedicated science minister signals a…
sciencecityDecember 5, 2019
Ten years ago, when Toronto entrepreneur Brendan Frey wanted to start his company, he says,…
sciencecityNovember 13, 2019
Another election has come and, mercifully, gone. During the recent federal campaign, the subject of…
sciencecityNovember 7, 2019
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau won a second term on 21 October, but his Liberal…
sciencecityOctober 25, 2019
Blind and partially sighted people no longer have to wait passively for a research breakthrough…
sciencecityOctober 21, 2019
Canada’s two main political parties are running neck and neck in the lead-up to the…
sciencecityOctober 17, 2019
Last March, Canada's department of health changed the way it handles the huge amount of…
sciencecityOctober 14, 2019
A survey suggests that the trust Canadians place in science may be eroding. The survey,…
sciencecitySeptember 25, 2019
UBC Faculty of Medicine researchers have been awarded more than $6.5 million from Brain Canada’s…
karnottJune 20, 2025
We are proud to share that 9 research projects led by investigators from the UBC…
karnottJune 19, 2025
When Seyed Amirhossein Nasseri began his graduate studies at UBC, the destination wasn’t entirely clear—but…
karnottJune 18, 2025
Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) alumnus Amanda Rowlands aims to empower…
karnottJune 16, 2025
Aniqa Shahid, a new Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) alumnus, was…
karnottJune 9, 2025
When humans, animals, plants and viruses interact with or live in water, they shed their…
karnottJune 4, 2025
Dr. Sofie Tolmeijer from UBC This month’s spotlight features Dr. Sofie Tolmeijer (pictured), a postdoctoral…
karnottJune 2, 2025
Dr. Gabriel Potvin, Associate Professor of Teaching in UBC Chemical and Biological Engineering, has been…
karnottJune 2, 2025
