On October 24, 2025, Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre (GSC) hosted our second annual,…
karnottNovember 10, 2025
Syntrophic microbial consortia can contribute substantially to the activity of anoxic ecosystems but are often…
karnottNovember 7, 2025
Each year, about 60,000 Canadians experience out-of-hospital cardiac arrests, with only 1 in 10 people…
karnottNovember 6, 2025
Simon Fraser University hosted its inaugural Innovation Week celebrating the innovators, researchers and students creating…
karnottNovember 6, 2025
Four research teams across Canada have received a total of $14.5 million though the 2025…
karnottNovember 5, 2025
Dr. Nozomu Yachie This October, many researchers from across the Greater Vancouver scientific community were…
karnottNovember 5, 2025
October is Rett Syndrome Awareness Month, a time to foster understanding about this complex neurological…
karnottNovember 5, 2025
Mitochondrial dysfunction and bioenergetics failure are common pathological hallmarks in Huntington’s disease (HD) and aging.…
pthomsonOctober 26, 2021
Male-female differences in many developmental mechanisms lead to the formation of two morphologically and physiologically…
pthomsonOctober 19, 2021
A rate-limiting step for circulating tumor cells to colonize distant organ sites is their ability…
pthomsonOctober 18, 2021
This week we profile a recent publication in Cell Chemical Biology from the lab of…
pthomsonOctober 13, 2021
Read the Publication This week we profile a recent publication in Nature from the labs…
pthomsonOctober 12, 2021
Read the Publication This week we profile a recent publication in Current Biology from the…
pthomsonOctober 7, 2021
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is an age-related condition that is linked to cellular senescence…
pthomsonOctober 6, 2021
The Allan and Verheyen labs at UBC and SFU, respectively, use the fruit fly as…
pthomsonSeptember 29, 2021
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
In 2020, Ron Pavlakovic received a heart transplant due to his idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy, a…
karnottMarch 25, 2025
An innovative new initiative at the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health (DMCBH) is set…
karnottMarch 24, 2025
Congratulations to the BC Cancer researchers who are recipients of the 2023 Canadian Cancer Society…
karnottFebruary 29, 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Carolina Tropini, Dr. Dena Shahriari, Dr. Nika Shakiba and Dr. Zachary Laksman…
karnottFebruary 27, 2024
Dr. Syam Somasekharan has been honored with the Idea Development Award - Established Investigator Award…
karnottFebruary 26, 2024
Congratulations to BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute (BCCHR) and Women’s Health Research Institute (WHRI) investigators…
karnottFebruary 21, 2024
Seven talented, early-career scientists in Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia will each receive up to…
karnottFebruary 20, 2024
Faculty of medicine researchers are among the UBC awardees of funding through the Canadian Institutes…
karnottFebruary 20, 2024
The CIHR Fall 2023 competition has approved 374 research grants and 6 bridge grants, for…
karnottFebruary 14, 2024
Five LSI researchers were awarded funds in the CIHR Fall 2023 Project Grant competition. Listed…
karnottFebruary 13, 2024
