UBC has opened a $45 million expansion of the Beaty Biodiversity Centre, made possible by…
karnottOctober 2, 2025
In a national first, a team of top Canadian cancer researchers, including BC Cancer distinguished…
karnottOctober 1, 2025
Genome BC has announced funding for four new UBC research projects associated with Canada’s Immuno-Engineering…
karnottOctober 1, 2025
The seed2STEM Summer Research Program for Indigenous Youth seeks to improve representation of Indigenous students…
karnottSeptember 30, 2025
A unique initiative in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside is bringing Indigenous patient partners and UBC experts…
karnottSeptember 30, 2025
Doctors often use a routine lipid panel – a blood test that measures levels of…
karnottSeptember 29, 2025
The University of British Columbia Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences is proud to announce that Assistant…
karnottSeptember 29, 2025
Dopamine modulation is thought to underpin some of the therapeutic effects associated with repetitive transcranial magnetic…
pthomsonMay 13, 2022
Animal models are frequently used as a preclinical step to studying cancers such as B-cell…
pthomsonMay 6, 2022
Read the Publication This week we profile a recent publication in Nature Communications from first…
pthomsonMay 3, 2022
Previous studies of aging have revealed intrinsically determined alterations in the properties of the hematopoietic…
pthomsonApril 29, 2022
Dr. Chris Carlsten's lab is dedicated to revealing the effects of environmental exposures on human…
pthomsonApril 20, 2022
Huntington disease (HD), a hereditary neurodegenerative disorder, manifests as progressively impaired movement and cognition. Although early…
pthomsonApril 19, 2022
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
Advancing Health’s Chief Clinical Research Officer, Erin Cherban, has begun her term as Chair of…
karnottMarch 28, 2025
A new avenue to differentiate between prostate cancers is being investigated by Vancouver Coastal Health…
karnottMarch 27, 2025
Nephrotic syndrome is the most common glomerular kidney disease in children, a condition that damages…
karnottMarch 26, 2025
Canadian researchers have developed an effective new technique for identifying aggressive medulloblastoma – the most…
karnottMarch 26, 2025
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
To some of my students’ displeasure, I have my office hours on Friday afternoons. I…
sciencecityApril 13, 2017
Approximately one-third of Ph.D. students are at risk of having or developing a common psychiatric…
sciencecityApril 11, 2017
As information-sharing has become decentralized in our digital age, are traditional approaches to science communication…
sciencecityApril 10, 2017
You probably have heard during the past few months the general discontent of Canadian scientists…
sciencecityApril 6, 2017
Congratulations to Leo Escano (Terry Fox Laboratory), for receiving a Canada Graduate Scholarships – Doctoral…
karnottMay 16, 2024
Congratulations to the School of Biomedical Engineering’s Fraser Douglas from Dr. Calvin Kuo’s Human Motion…
karnottMay 15, 2024
UBC Faculty of Medicine community members are among the recipients of funding from UBC’s Strategic…
karnottMay 10, 2024
Canada’s Immuno-Engineering and Biomanufacturing Hub Research Teams Awarded $140M in Federal Funding
Today, the Government of Canada announced an investment of $140 million in projects associated with…
karnottMay 8, 2024
Dr. Yongjin Park (pictured) has been named Canada Research Chair in Integrative Causality Inference of…
karnottMay 1, 2024
Internationally renowned evolutionary biologist Dr. Dolph Schluter has been elected to the newest class of…
karnottApril 30, 2024
Loujain Bilal (BSc Student, MISA President 2023-2024) - Faculty of Science Excellence in Service Award…
karnottApril 29, 2024
A number of UBC Faculty of Medicine members have been honoured with Killam teaching awards…
karnottApril 25, 2024
