Dr. Griesdale is an anesthesiologist and intensive care physician at Vancouver General Hospital, and an…
karnottApril 22, 2026
Multiple members of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at UBC have been awarded funding from…
karnottApril 21, 2026
Androgen deprivation therapy is the primary treatment for advanced prostate tumors. While initially effective, tumor…
karnottApril 20, 2026
A team of researchers based at the Faculty of Health Sciences will develop resources to…
karnottApril 20, 2026
Growing up in a small town in Ontario, Dr. Milan Valyear always enjoyed tinkering and…
karnottApril 17, 2026
Dr. Nienke van Houten – a university lecturer and the director of undergraduate education at…
karnottApril 17, 2026
Despite a wealth of knowledge on the mechanisms underlying craniofacial morphogenesis during gestation, the roles…
karnottApril 16, 2026
Antivirals with broad coronavirus activity are important for treating high-risk individuals exposed to the constantly…
pthomsonAugust 14, 2023
Lineage plasticity is a form of therapy-induced drug resistance. In prostate cancer, androgen receptor (AR)…
pthomsonAugust 11, 2023
Type II topoisomerase (Top2) poisoning therapy is used to treat a broad range of cancers…
pthomsonAugust 10, 2023
Since their discovery, CD4+CD25hiFOXP3hi regulatory T cells (Tregs) have been firmly established as a critical cell…
pthomsonAugust 4, 2023
Hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) originate from an endothelial-to-hematopoietic transition (EHT) during embryogenesis. Characterization…
pthomsonAugust 2, 2023
Current vaccine efforts to combat SARS-CoV-2 are focused on the whole spike protein administered as…
pthomsonJuly 28, 2023
DICER1 is an RNase III enzyme essential for microRNA (miRNA) biogenesis through cleaving pre-miRNA hairpins.…
pthomsonJuly 27, 2023
Biomarkers of TDP-43 pathology are needed to distinguish frontotemporal lobar degeneration with TDP-43 pathology (FTLD-TDP)…
pthomsonJuly 21, 2023
UBC Medicine scientists have founded six new spinoff companies that build on their research to…
karnottNovember 28, 2025
Wastewater treatment plants are microbial jungles, with each site containing more than 10 million different…
karnottNovember 27, 2025
3D bioprinting, the process by which cells are combined with bioinks and printed into 3D…
karnottNovember 26, 2025
Since joining the UBC School of Kinesiology as a Scientific Engineer, Jeff Nickel has already…
karnottNovember 26, 2025
Developed at SFU’s School of Mechatronic Systems Engineering, the system features reusable dry 3D-printed electrodes…
karnottNovember 25, 2025
NervGen Pharma Corp. (“NervGen” or the “Company”) , a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing first-in-class neuroreparative…
karnottNovember 24, 2025
Glen was a Distinguished Professor at SFU with joint appointments in Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology…
karnottNovember 21, 2025
We are moving into a new era of genomic medicines that will target cancer, viruses…
karnottNovember 20, 2025
There’s a federal election in Canada this Fall and all of the political parties are…
sciencecityJuly 26, 2019
We have all had those experiments that theoretically should work but don’t or those projects…
sciencecityJuly 24, 2019
Our government understands that when we give our budding researchers the opportunity to learn and…
sciencecityJuly 16, 2019
The federal Minister of Health, Ginette Petitpas Taylor, announced today an investment of $150 million…
sciencecityJuly 15, 2019
Finally conquered that PhD? Your paper just got accepted? Is your manuscript weeks away from…
sciencecityJuly 8, 2019
Following on the announcement in Budget 2019, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Natural…
sciencecityJune 25, 2019
A tentative agreement reached between the Trudeau government and Canada's scientists would lock in their right…
sciencecityJune 24, 2019
Collaborations between college researchers and businesses help our local and national economies thrive and get…
sciencecityJune 18, 2019
Dr. Govind Kaigala from the UBC School of Biomedical Engineering April showers brought more than…
karnottMay 1, 2025
We are proud to announce that Dr. Nada Lallous has been awarded an Idea Development…
karnottApril 29, 2025
We are thrilled to celebrate the outstanding achievement of Unnati Yagnik and (Ziwei) Mia Cai,…
karnottApril 25, 2025
Vancouver Prostate Centre researcher Dr. Artem Cherkasov recently won two competitions in the international CACHE…
karnottApril 23, 2025
A total of 47 Research Excellence Clusters led by researchers at UBC Vancouver are being…
karnottApril 22, 2025
A number of UBC Faculty of Medicine members have been honoured with Killam teaching awards…
karnottApril 21, 2025
Congratulations to Dr. Mark Cembrowski, recipient of the 2025 Canadian Association for Neuroscience (CAN) New…
karnottApril 18, 2025
The 2024/25 Killam Teaching Prize and Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award recipients have been announced,…
karnottApril 18, 2025
