Epilepsy affects more than 50,000 people in B.C., according to the BC Epilepsy Society. The…
karnottSeptember 25, 2025
Each year, the Faculty of Medicine recognizes faculty and staff members for excellence in teaching,…
karnottSeptember 24, 2025
A pair of British Columbian agritech startups have received funding from Genome British Columbia’s (Genome…
karnottSeptember 23, 2025
Congratulations to the recipients of the BC Cancer Foundation (BCCF) Rising Stars Graduate Awards competition!…
karnottSeptember 23, 2025
Three students at the Faculty of Health Sciences secured major awards from the Social Sciences…
karnottSeptember 23, 2025
Over the last 15 years, research into the gut microbiome — the ecosystem of microorganisms…
karnottSeptember 22, 2025
Genome BC is funding three projects that examine the genetic-level impacts of wildfire smoke exposure,…
karnottSeptember 22, 2025
The global spread of SARS-CoV-2 has proceeded at an unprecedented rate. Remarkably, characterization of the…
pthomsonJuly 22, 2022
Advanced-stage prostate cancer remains an incurable disease with poor patient prognosis. There is an unmet clinical need…
pthomsonJuly 19, 2022
Regulatory T cell (Treg) therapy is under clinical investigation for the treatment of transplant rejection,…
pthomsonJuly 15, 2022
Protein glycosylation, the attachment of carbohydrates onto proteins, is a fundamental process that alters the…
pthomsonJuly 12, 2022
Fluorescent polymeric hydrogels are promising soft and wet media for information storage that are desirable…
pthomsonJuly 8, 2022
Read the Publication This week we profile a recent publication in Leukemia from the lab…
pthomsonJuly 5, 2022
Dietary salt detection and consumption are crucial to maintaining fluid and ionic homeostasis. To optimize…
pthomsonJune 30, 2022
Approved drugs for the treatment of osteoporosis can prevent further bone loss but do not…
pthomsonJune 29, 2022
Seven start-up ventures founded by faculty of medicine community members have joined the 49th cohort…
karnottApril 8, 2025
2024 marked the 10th anniversary of the UBC Faculty of Medicine’s Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for…
karnottApril 7, 2025
Dr. Mark MacLachlan, Canada Research Chair in Supramolecular Materials and the new Dean of Science…
karnottApril 7, 2025
New research from the Centre for Heart Lung Innovation (HLI) at St. Paul’s Hospital has…
karnottApril 4, 2025
Your immune system protects you from infection, but it also helps your body with all…
karnottApril 3, 2025
The global average for countries to report genetic information about bird flu, crucial to tracking…
karnottApril 2, 2025
For UBC’s World University Service of Canada (WUSC) refugee award winners, those stories highlight their…
karnottApril 1, 2025
Dr. Marco Marra and the groundbreaking Personalized OncoGenomics (POG) program have been prominently featured in…
karnottMarch 31, 2025
A team of Canadian researchers that studied so-called predatory journals is suggesting a “co-ordinated response”…
sciencecityDecember 14, 2017
Canada’s talented and skilled workforce is a competitive advantage for our country that attracts investment,…
sciencecityDecember 6, 2017
In the basement of McGill University's engineering building, Elizabeth O'Meara punches the word "engineer" into…
sciencecityNovember 30, 2017
The Trudeau government’s decision last month to name a federal science adviser should come as…
sciencecityNovember 15, 2017
It’s one of the most exciting, and controversial, areas of health science today: new technology…
sciencecityNovember 13, 2017
Some postdoctoral researchers at public universities in the United States apparently work for fast-food wages…
sciencecityNovember 9, 2017
For his 2012 PhD thesis, the sociologist Chris Platts surveyed and interviewed more than 300…
sciencecityNovember 3, 2017
Scientists are altering a powerful gene-editing technology in hopes of one day fighting diseases without…
sciencecityOctober 30, 2017
We are pleased to share that Dr. Jörg Gsponer (Michael Smith Laboratories, Department of Biochemistry…
karnottJune 10, 2024
The Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) Consortium will be led by Kelley Lee, professor in…
karnottJune 7, 2024
Taking innovative research from concept to application is critical for improving health care systems and…
karnottJune 6, 2024
Established in 2009, the Career Research Award is a biennial award that recognizes the career…
karnottJune 5, 2024
The Lupus Research Alliance (LRA) is proud to announce that nine international researchers are the…
karnottJune 4, 2024
Dr. Sally Otto (pictured) —a theoretical biologist focused on fundamental questions of population genetics and…
karnottJune 1, 2024
Faculty of Health Sciences PhD candidate Amanda Rowlands has a new award to add to…
karnottMay 31, 2024
Congratulations to Fumiya Inaba (Integrative Oncology), for receiving a Canada Graduate Scholarships - Master's Award…
karnottMay 29, 2024
