Research is crucial to improving health outcomes and unlocking the potential of new medication, treatments…
karnottJune 26, 2025
Brain Canada announced its support for two pioneering neuroscience research platforms at UBC through its…
karnottJune 25, 2025
Launched at the end of May, ARTIC-2 is extending a genome sequencing technique that was…
karnottJune 24, 2025
Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Hoodless for receiving a Discovery Grant from the Natural Sciences and…
karnottJune 24, 2025
Understanding the human de novo mutation (DNM) rate requires complete sequence information1. Here using five…
karnottJune 23, 2025
The Michael Smith Laboratories Pathway to Independence Award aims to support the research and career…
karnottJune 23, 2025
UBC Faculty of Medicine researchers have been awarded more than $6.5 million from Brain Canada’s…
karnottJune 20, 2025
Melanoma is a malignant tumor that accounts for the deadliest form of skin cancers. Despite…
mjoyFebruary 2, 2023
The primary focus of Dr. Shernaz Bamji's lab at present is to determine how the…
mjoyJanuary 25, 2023
Spinal cord injury leads to disruption in autonomic control resulting in cardiovascular, bowel, and lower…
mjoyJanuary 24, 2023
Massively parallel DNA sequencing has led to the rapid growth of highly multiplexed experiments in…
mjoyJanuary 19, 2023
Dr. Natalie Strynadka's team focuses on atomic resolution characterization and analysis of microbial targets, often membrane…
mjoyJanuary 18, 2023
Novel therapeutics to manage bacterial infections are urgently needed as the impact and prevalence of…
mjoyJanuary 12, 2023
Liquid biopsies are the detection of molecular information in fluids from patients with cancer. In…
mjoyJanuary 9, 2023
Dr. Megan Levings' lab works on developing regulatory T cell (Treg) based therapies to improve…
mjoyJanuary 6, 2023
February 11, 2025 marks the 10th annual International Day of Women and Girls in Science.…
karnottFebruary 14, 2025
What sparked your love for science? A childhood curiosity, a great teacher, or a moment…
karnottFebruary 14, 2025
February 11 is International Day of Women and Girls in Sciences. We have compiled a…
karnottFebruary 14, 2025
British Columbia is home to a thriving life sciences sector, with over 2,000 companies employing…
karnottFebruary 13, 2025
The interactions within the tumour microenvironment can impact the effectiveness of cancer treatment, which is…
karnottFebruary 11, 2025
UBC is among the best universities in the world for Medical and Health disciplines, according…
karnottFebruary 10, 2025
In a featured article published today in Frontiers in Science, researchers from leading Canadian institutions…
karnottFebruary 7, 2025
I am delighted to announce the appointment of Dr. Martin Gleave as the inaugural Chief…
karnottFebruary 6, 2025
At a downtown Toronto hospital researchers are testing a remarkable hypothesis — that transplanting poop from…
sciencecityFebruary 21, 2019
Mark Taylor has a front-row seat to the development and launch of some of Canada’s…
sciencecityFebruary 18, 2019
Canada’s greatest potential can only be realized when all people are welcomed into the laboratory,…
sciencecityFebruary 15, 2019
Female health scientists in Canada face a significant disadvantage when competing for federal research dollars…
sciencecityFebruary 14, 2019
There is a call for more funding for research into chronic diseases at B.C. Women’s…
sciencecityFebruary 11, 2019
Defining what is science and who are scientific researchers may initially seem like an easy…
sciencecityFebruary 6, 2019
A revolutionary new cancer treatment is now available in Canada, but provinces are being advised…
sciencecityJanuary 22, 2019
While many Canadian academics were enjoying a bit of time off over the holidays, some…
sciencecityJanuary 17, 2019
Congratulations to this year's recipients of the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute Team Grant Awards!…
Vancouver Coastal Health Research InstituteJuly 12, 2024
NMIN’s Advanced Training Certification, or ATC, recognizes an individual’s engagement in diverse capacity-building activities offered…
karnottJuly 12, 2024
Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) is proud to support future research leaders with the…
karnottJuly 11, 2024
Throughout her undergraduate degree, Megan Obermayer was involved in various aspects of the health sciences…
karnottJuly 8, 2024
UBC faculty of medicine community members Drs. John Allan Cairns, Lindsay Machan, Dan Poenaru and…
karnottJuly 4, 2024
Three researchers from the UBC Faculty of Medicine are among the new and renewed Canada…
karnottJuly 2, 2024
Dr. Annie Ciernia (pictured) has received the 2024 UBC Faculty of Medicine Distinguished Achievement Award…
karnottJuly 1, 2024
Each year, the Faculty of Medicine recognizes faculty members who have made exceptional contributions in…
karnottJuly 1, 2024
