Led by Dr. Bruce Carleton, the GO-PGx project established a national precision medicine network with…
karnottNovember 4, 2025
Every year, hundreds of British Columbians receive a second chance at life through kidney transplantation.…
karnottNovember 3, 2025
Dr. Lalitha Raman-Wilms, Dean of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at UBC, has received the…
karnottNovember 3, 2025
Two Postdoctoral Fellows in the Evgin Lab at the BC Cancer Research Institute are the…
karnottOctober 31, 2025
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Xin Tang, our newest Assistant Professor jointly appointed…
karnottOctober 31, 2025
The CanNRT Fellowship is a competitive program designed to support trainees in Canadian universities in…
karnottOctober 31, 2025
UBC professor Dr. Nozomu Yachie is among the new and renewed Canada Research Chairs recently…
karnottOctober 30, 2025
It has been estimated that 15-30% of the ∼20,000 genes in C. elegans are essential, yet many…
pthomsonSeptember 29, 2021
Although innate immunity is linked to metabolic health, the effect of leptin signaling in cells…
pthomsonSeptember 28, 2021
Cognitive decline leading to dementia, accompanied by the accumulation of amyloid-beta (Aβ) in neuritic plaques…
pthomsonSeptember 22, 2021
Klebsiella pneumoniae has been implicated in wide-ranging nosocomial outbreaks, causing severe infections without effective treatments due…
pthomsonSeptember 14, 2021
In land plants and algae, cellulose is important for strengthening cell walls and preventing breakage…
pthomsonSeptember 13, 2021
Huntington disease is an inherited neurodegenerative disorder that affects 1 in 7,500 individuals in the…
pthomsonSeptember 8, 2021
The Mizumoto lab studies the fundamental mechanisms of how our brain develops. In particular, they…
pthomsonSeptember 7, 2021
The claustrum is a brain region implicated in a wide variety of functions - from…
pthomsonSeptember 6, 2021
Acuitas Therapeutics, Inc. was named one of BC’s Top Employers of 2025. The Vancouver-based, privately…
karnottMarch 21, 2025
An innovative UBC summer research program for Indigenous youth has received federal funding through the…
karnottMarch 21, 2025
This article originally posted on the UBC Faculty of Medicine website and reposted here. Three…
karnottMarch 20, 2025
Canadian researchers have developed an effective new technique for identifying aggressive medulloblastoma—the most common type…
karnottMarch 20, 2025
STEMCELL Technologies Canada Inc. to build two new cutting-edge biomanufacturing facilities to produce critical inputs…
karnottMarch 19, 2025
The UBC Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences was proud to participate in Life Sciences BC’s 10th…
karnottMarch 19, 2025
The GSC is proud to announce its collaboration on five groundbreaking projects as part of…
karnottMarch 19, 2025
Researchers from BC Cancer and the University of British Columbia (UBC) have discovered that certain…
karnottMarch 17, 2025
Over the years, with the support of Travel Awards provided by the Centre for Blood…
karnottFebruary 12, 2024
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has announced the results of its Fall 2023…
karnottFebruary 9, 2024
We are excited to congratulate Lauren Durland and Thomas Worthington, the 2023-24 recipients of the…
karnottFebruary 8, 2024
The results of the CIHR Fall 2023 Project Grant Competition have just been announced. Advancing…
karnottFebruary 7, 2024
UBC Faculty of Medicine’s Dr. Deborah Money (pictured) was recently appointed to the Order of…
karnottFebruary 1, 2024
The Terry Fox Research Institute has co-funded six Master’s and PhD students and one postdoctoral…
karnottFebruary 1, 2024
The Michael Smith Laboratories is pleased to highlight one of our outstanding graduate students, Heather…
karnottJanuary 29, 2024
Six UBC faculty of medicine community members have been honoured by the Canadian Association for…
karnottJanuary 25, 2024
