We are excited to announce the 2026 Prostate Cancer Foundation Canada Grant-in-Aid Award recipients and…
karnottJanuary 21, 2026
Dr. Anna Blakney’s team (Michael Smith Laboratories, School of Biomedical Engineering) has partnered with STRM.BIO…
karnottJanuary 20, 2026
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Stirling Bryan as Interim Executive Director,…
karnottJanuary 19, 2026
Providence Research is inviting applications for the Carraresi Foundation Early Career Clinician Investigator Award. This…
karnottJanuary 19, 2026
A distinguished academic, visionary research leader and trusted mentor, Dr. Bernard H. (Bernie) Bressler played…
karnottJanuary 16, 2026
Beneath the coastal waters of British Columbia are vast, dense populations of algae integral to…
karnottJanuary 15, 2026
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
The GSC was delighted to welcome a group of enthusiastic high school students as part…
karnottJune 17, 2025
The groundbreaking seventeen-year study involved researchers from UBC’s Faculty of Medicine as well as researchers…
karnottJune 16, 2025
Ten years ago, at the age of 16, Nivan was diagnosed with osteosarcoma. The bone-cancer…
karnottJune 16, 2025
Pharmacists play a vital role in the lives of Canadians, providing important public health services…
karnottJune 13, 2025
When commercially available behavioural testing equipment is out of reach, some researchers get creative and…
karnottJune 13, 2025
What started as a passion for helping others turned into a province-wide recognition of impact…
karnottJune 13, 2025
In Canada, 10.6 per cent of individuals aged 15 and over have a mobility disability…
karnottJune 12, 2025
On World Environment Day, Genome British Columbia (Genome BC) is proud to announce significant new…
karnottJune 11, 2025
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
Virginia Schutte says the March for Science won’t meet her goals or those set out…
sciencecityApril 4, 2017
The announcement to create the position of a chief science advisor (CSA) for Canada by…
sciencecityMarch 30, 2017
Last month, General Electric announced that by 2020 the company would not only have equal…
sciencecityMarch 28, 2017
Throughout her undergraduate degree, Megan Obermayer was involved in various aspects of the health sciences…
karnottJuly 8, 2024
UBC faculty of medicine community members Drs. John Allan Cairns, Lindsay Machan, Dan Poenaru and…
karnottJuly 4, 2024
Three researchers from the UBC Faculty of Medicine are among the new and renewed Canada…
karnottJuly 2, 2024
Dr. Annie Ciernia (pictured) has received the 2024 UBC Faculty of Medicine Distinguished Achievement Award…
karnottJuly 1, 2024
Each year, the Faculty of Medicine recognizes faculty members who have made exceptional contributions in…
karnottJuly 1, 2024
Neuroscientist John McDonald, archaeological scientist Michael Richards and computational chemist Samira Siahrostami’s appointments were announced…
karnottJuly 1, 2024
This award recognizes outstanding contributions in the area of equity, diversity and inclusion through research,…
karnottJune 26, 2024
Congratulations to Ninon Freidel, the first year UBC Neuroscience graduate student who was awarded the…
karnottJune 26, 2024
