This week, Statistics Canada published new data that demonstrates the important impact the innovative pharmaceutical industry has…
sciencecityJune 19, 2024
By better matching donors and recipients, the project aims to prevent organ rejection and reduce…
sciencecityJune 18, 2024
Four out of five children diagnosed with cancer survive over the long term after treatment,…
sciencecityJune 18, 2024
The Terry Fox Research Institute (TFRI) held its 10th Scientific Meeting in Toronto, bringing together…
karnottJune 17, 2024
Congratulations to Georgia Langdon (Terry Fox Lab) for receiving the Genome Science and Technology summer…
karnottJune 17, 2024
A total of 157 new programs and projects led by UBC researchers were awarded more than $36.2…
sciencecityJune 17, 2024
Dr. Peter Stirling (Stirling Lab) has received a one-year research grant through Brain Cancer Canada…
karnottJune 14, 2024
A rate-limiting step for circulating tumor cells to colonize distant organ sites is their ability…
pthomsonOctober 18, 2021
This week we profile a recent publication in Cell Chemical Biology from the lab of…
pthomsonOctober 13, 2021
Read the Publication This week we profile a recent publication in Nature from the labs…
pthomsonOctober 12, 2021
Read the Publication This week we profile a recent publication in Current Biology from the…
pthomsonOctober 7, 2021
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is an age-related condition that is linked to cellular senescence…
pthomsonOctober 6, 2021
The Allan and Verheyen labs at UBC and SFU, respectively, use the fruit fly as…
pthomsonSeptember 29, 2021
It has been estimated that 15-30% of the ∼20,000 genes in C. elegans are essential, yet many…
pthomsonSeptember 29, 2021
Although innate immunity is linked to metabolic health, the effect of leptin signaling in cells…
pthomsonSeptember 28, 2021
There are at least two things a student hopes to find when they walk into…
sciencecityOctober 20, 2023
At the CHILD-BRIGHT Network, youth with brain-based disabilities between the ages of 16-29 form a…
sciencecityOctober 20, 2023
On October 10, the Government of B.C. announced an expansion of the province’s clinical trial…
sciencecityOctober 20, 2023
Praxis Spinal Cord Institute is excited to announce the cohort of Praxis SCI Accelerate, a…
sciencecityOctober 20, 2023
Alumni of the UBC Graduate Program in Neuroscience (GPN) embark on diverse career paths, spanning…
sciencecityOctober 16, 2023
To Monitor or Not to Monitor? A Conversation on AI Health Surveillance with Bioethicist Dr. Anita Ho
The first known record introducing computer intelligence was at a public lecture given by Dr.…
sciencecityOctober 16, 2023
Three UBC Neuroscience graduate students have recently taken on the role of NeuroImaging and NeuroComputation…
sciencecityOctober 13, 2023
One in eight women will develop breast cancer in their lifetime. But when detected early,…
sciencecityOctober 12, 2023
After spending nearly 15 years in biomedical science laboratories in two different countries with publicly…
sciencecityMarch 21, 2017
CRISPR, a technique that allows for precise gene editing, is taking the research world by…
sciencecityMarch 16, 2017
My first attempt at publishing a paper was a breeze. A collaborator was asked to…
sciencecityMarch 14, 2017
Do Americans hate science? They certainly seem to hate it more than they used to,…
sciencecityMarch 10, 2017
This past summer, the future of our postdoctoral association’s Science Policy Committee was uncertain. We were…
sciencecityMarch 7, 2017
The initial stages of a PhD can be daunting. Fortunately, there are a few ways…
sciencecityMarch 2, 2017
Female first-year Ph.D. students in “bench” biology disciplines—such as molecular biology, cellular biology, and genetics—spend…
sciencecityFebruary 27, 2017
Launched in 2017, the JDRF-CIHR Partnership to Defeat Diabetes is a landmark collaboration between the…
pthomsonMarch 17, 2023
Dr. Pieter Cullis, a professor in the UBC faculty of medicine’s department of biochemistry and…
pthomsonMarch 17, 2023
Faculty of medicine researchers are among the UBC recipients of Research Excellence Clusters funding for 2023/24.…
pthomsonMarch 13, 2023
UBC’s Office of the Vice-President, Research & Innovation has announced a total of 38 emerging…
pthomsonMarch 10, 2023
Simon Fraser University Faculty of Science researchers have been awarded $2M from the Canadian Institutes…
pthomsonMarch 9, 2023
The Strynadka group is interested in the bacterial mechanisms which lead to broad-spectrum antibiotic resistance,…
pthomsonMarch 8, 2023
The Transplant Society holds a biennial congress inviting international experts and key opinion leaders in transplantation…
pthomsonMarch 8, 2023
The appointment, in honour of President Emeritus Alan Bernstein, recognizes Tropini’s groundbreaking research into how…
pthomsonMarch 6, 2023
