Dr. Nika Shakiba, Assistant Professor at SBME, was recently appointed as a Canada Research Chair…
karnottDecember 2, 2024
Canadian cancer researchers are part of global efforts to test targeted alpha therapy, a new…
karnottNovember 29, 2024
On November 4, 2024, the inaugural Transforming Health Symposium brought together thought leaders, clinicians, researchers,…
karnottNovember 29, 2024
Six researchers from the UBC Faculty of Medicine are among the new and renewed Canada…
karnottNovember 28, 2024
The abundance and diversity of intestinal commensal bacteria influence systemic immunity with impact on disease…
karnottNovember 28, 2024
The prevalence and nature of somatic copy number alterations (CNAs) in breast epithelium and their…
karnottNovember 27, 2024
An updated database listing over 100,000 of the most cited-researchers in the world was published…
karnottNovember 27, 2024
This review will focus on biomarkers in testicular germ cell tumors (TGCT), focusing on microRNAs…
pthomsonFebruary 18, 2022
The daily loss of cells in tissues such as skin, gut and blood is compensated…
pthomsonFebruary 14, 2022
The Delta and Kappa variants of SARS-CoV-2 co-emerged in India in late 2020, with the…
pthomsonFebruary 11, 2022
Screening of a marine derived crude natural product extract library, followed by bioactivity guided fractionation, has led…
pthomsonFebruary 10, 2022
Dopamine D1 receptor (D1R) agonists are frequently used to study the role of D1Rs in neurotransmission…
pthomsonFebruary 4, 2022
The generation of T-cells from stem cells in vitro could provide an alternative source of…
pthomsonFebruary 4, 2022
Acute damage to the intestinal epithelium can be repaired via de-differentiation of mature intestinal epithelial…
pthomsonJanuary 28, 2022
Sarcomas are cancers of mesenchymal origin with the potential to arise in diverse anatomic locations.…
pthomsonJanuary 25, 2022
The concept was an easy one…. yet the journey to operationalize this was challenging, especially…
karnottJune 7, 2024
Your brain is the control centre of communication, while your spinal cord is the main…
karnottJune 6, 2024
Should there ever be another pandemic like COVID-19, Canada is hoping to be better prepared…
karnottJune 5, 2024
UBC hosted the 16th Annual Vancouver Brain Bee on Saturday, April 6th , where 42…
karnottJune 5, 2024
British Columbia has been selected as the test bed for a potentially game-changing genomics project…
karnottJune 4, 2024
According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer, one in five people will be…
karnottMay 31, 2024
Food allergies affect nearly 600,000 Canadian children and one in two Canadian households. But a…
karnottMay 30, 2024
Dr. Cheryl Peters, a senior scientist in cancer prevention at BC Cancer and the BC…
karnottMay 28, 2024
In March, Canada’s federal government announced its 2017 budget with no increase in funding for…
sciencecityAugust 16, 2017
It was something like a flashback for Canadian scientists who gathered across the country Saturday…
sciencecityMay 2, 2017
In Steven Soderbergh’s classy television show The Knick, set in a New York City hospital…
sciencecityApril 27, 2017
The panel charged with reviewing the federal government’s support of fundamental science released its final…
sciencecityApril 20, 2017
My PhD journey is coming to its end and I am considering a non-academic career.…
sciencecityApril 20, 2017
Imagine this: What if scientists had a tool that allowed them to edit genes directly,…
sciencecityApril 18, 2017
Supervisor phobia, as I call it, is an irrational fear that I have seen often…
sciencecityApril 14, 2017
Dr. Sharon Gorski received a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Project Grant to investigate caspase…
pthomsonAugust 1, 2023
A total of 50 projects led by UBC researchers were awarded $37 million in combined…
pthomsonJuly 28, 2023
BC Cancer's Dr. Florian Kuchenbauer and Dr. François Bénard, in collaboration with TRIUMF Innovations and…
pthomsonJuly 25, 2023
Afsaneh Panahi, graduate student at the Kuchenbauer Lab has been awarded an International Myeloma Society (IMS) Young Investigator…
pthomsonJuly 24, 2023
The CIHR Spring 2023 competition has approved 381 research grants and 12 bridge grants, for…
pthomsonJuly 21, 2023
Congratulations to Dr. Peter Zandstra for receiving the first ever Scientific Entrepreneurship Award from Life…
pthomsonJuly 20, 2023
Kwangjin Park (Hoodless Lab) has been awarded the Canadian Institutes of Health Research 2022 Postdoctoral Fellowship…
pthomsonJuly 20, 2023
Congratulations to the winners of the 2023 Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health Trainee Endowment…
pthomsonJuly 19, 2023
