While exploring the UBC campus in 2007, first-year undergraduate student Jeff Dong found himself walking…
karnottJanuary 14, 2026
Allogeneic T cell therapies are a highly desirable option to circumvent the cost and complexity…
karnottJanuary 13, 2026
Acuitas Therapeutics, the global leader in lipid nanoparticle (LNP) delivery systems for nucleic acid therapeutics,…
karnottJanuary 13, 2026
Three neuroscience researchers from the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health — Drs. Adele Diamond,…
karnottJanuary 12, 2026
The appointment is made possible through a partnership between the UBC Faculty of Medicine, Sunny…
karnottJanuary 12, 2026
Sex differences could play a key role in diagnosing diabetic retinopathy, according to the results…
karnottJanuary 9, 2026
Two BC Cancer researchers are recipients of 2025 Operating Grants from the Cancer Research Society.…
karnottJanuary 9, 2026
Imprinting is a critical part of normal embryonic development in mammals, controlled by defined parent-of-origin…
pthomsonJuly 31, 2022
One part of Dr. Stuart Turvey's lab focuses on research in inborn errors of immunity…
pthomsonJuly 25, 2022
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
Dr. Sharmila Anandasabapathy, a leading clinician-scientist whose work spans cancer detection, biomedical engineering and global health,…
karnottJune 26, 2025
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
Time is everything in health care. Imagine a loved one with high-risk breast cancer being…
karnottJune 20, 2025
A study from Dr. James Piret (MSL, Chemical and Biological Engineering) and recent MSL and…
karnottJune 19, 2025
A new proposal calls for a major change in how the U.S. handles injuries caused…
karnottJune 18, 2025
Scientists are altering a powerful gene-editing technology in hopes of one day fighting diseases without…
sciencecityOctober 30, 2017
From penicillin to the Tesla Model 3, every great modern invention that has solved a…
sciencecityOctober 27, 2017
“A lot of scientific writing can be … dry,” says Dr. James Kryklywy, a post-doctoral…
sciencecityOctober 26, 2017
Five leading German scientists have resigned from their editorial positions at journals published by Elsevier,…
sciencecityOctober 17, 2017
Forty years ago, two papers described the first tractable methods for determining the order of the…
sciencecityOctober 13, 2017
While looking for a postdoctoral position, Michael Mitchell could have joined any number of small,…
sciencecityOctober 2, 2017
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has selected Ottawa heart researcher Mona Nemer to be the country's…
sciencecitySeptember 27, 2017
Almost half of Canadians – 43 per cent – believe scientific findings are ‘a matter…
sciencecitySeptember 25, 2017
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has announced the results of its Spring 2024…
karnottJuly 25, 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Jack Taunton, who was recently appointed to the Order of Canada. Dr.…
karnottJuly 24, 2024
Dr. Haifeng Zhang (Molecular Oncology), with the support of Dr. Poul Sorensen as mentor, received…
karnottJuly 23, 2024
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has announced the results of its Spring 2024…
karnottJuly 23, 2024
Dr. Poul Sorensen (Molecular Oncology), with co-investigator Dr. Wei Li (University of Pittsburgh), has been…
karnottJuly 22, 2024
Dr. Poul Sorensen (Molecular Oncology), with co-investigators Dr. Kevin Hay (Terry Fox Laboratory) and Dr.…
karnottJuly 19, 2024
Congratulations to Ms. Yingying Liu of the Collings Stevens Chronic Leukemia Research Laboratory, Terry Fox…
karnottJuly 17, 2024
The annual American Thoracic Society (ATS) International Conference made its return in May, where 14,000…
karnottJuly 15, 2024
