The 2025 Killam Teaching Prize recognizes HLI researcher Dr. Tillie Hackett for her commitment to…
sciencecityMay 16, 2025
Dr. Sofie Tolmeijer, PhD, a researcher in the Wyatt Lab, has been awarded the 2024…
sciencecityMay 15, 2025
As the world marks World Immunization Week, attention turns once again to the lifesaving power…
karnottMay 15, 2025
Researchers from the UBC faculty of medicine and BC Cancer have discovered that certain bacteria…
karnottMay 14, 2025
Since graduating last spring, Kelly Hrelja has made meaningful progress in her role as a…
karnottMay 14, 2025
We often think of cancer as a single disease, but many cancers — especially in…
sciencecityMay 14, 2025
Welcome to VCHRI Research Impact Series, celebrating the transformative power of health research. Through this…
karnottMay 13, 2025
New fundamental discoveries in stem cell biology have yielded potentially transformative regenerative therapeutics. However, widespread…
sciencecityAugust 22, 2018
Understanding the virus-host interactions using super-resolution microscopy, and applying the knowledge to vaccine and drug…
sciencecityAugust 20, 2018
Previously we reported that a well-known axon guidance cue Semaphorin and its receptor Plexin mediate…
sciencecityAugust 17, 2018
The Hoodless laboratory investigates the mechanisms underlying gene regulation in heart and gastrointestinal tract in…
sciencecityAugust 15, 2018
This study provides new insights into the machinery that mediates uptake of iron as an…
sciencecityAugust 13, 2018
In this publication, using a prodrug approach, we demonstrate the ability to co-deliver different therapeutic…
sciencecityAugust 10, 2018
Picornaviruses, one of the major causes of human diseases ranging from the common cold to…
sciencecityAugust 7, 2018
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neurodegenerative disease with an autoimmune component that affects the central…
sciencecityAugust 3, 2018
On November 16th, 2023, the Centre for Blood Research (CBR) held their 17th annual Earl…
karnottJanuary 24, 2024
The Julia Lane Foundation has generously committed $15,000 in support of the Science Fair Foundation…
karnottJanuary 22, 2024
Lung cancer remains a formidable challenge in the medical world, accounting for a quarter of…
karnottJanuary 22, 2024
Pancreatic cancer, with its five-year survival rate of less than 10%, is associated with various…
karnottJanuary 19, 2024
As the birthplace of numerous biotechnology startups, British Columbia is home to some of the…
karnottJanuary 18, 2024
NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes, LLC ("NorthStar"), a global innovator in development, production and commercialization of radiopharmaceuticals…
karnottJanuary 16, 2024
The International Society for Cell & Gene Therapy (ISCT), the global society of clinicians, researchers,…
karnottJanuary 15, 2024
How can we enhance support for cancer survivors and caregivers? For more than two decades,…
karnottJanuary 12, 2024
Dr. Pieter Cullis, a professor in UBC’s department of biochemistry and molecular biology, has been…
pthomsonJanuary 27, 2022
Congratulations to the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute (BCCHR) investigators and their teams who were…
pthomsonJanuary 17, 2022
Four Simon Fraser University researchers are among the country’s new and renewed Canada Research Chairs…
pthomsonJanuary 13, 2022
Seven Faculty of Medicine researchers are among a group of new and renewed Canada Research…
pthomsonJanuary 13, 2022
Congratulations to Frances Lock, research associate of Kuchenbauer Lab and Gabriela Segat, graduate student of the Weng Lab for…
pthomsonJanuary 10, 2022
Dr. Curtis Suttle (pictured), a Professor of Botany, Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, and Microbiology…
pthomsonJanuary 6, 2022
On December 29, 2021, Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada,…
pthomsonJanuary 5, 2022
We extend our congratulations to 2021 Zymeworks Fellowship in Immunotherapeutics recipients Ashina Nagra and Cindy Shaheen, both…
pthomsonJanuary 4, 2022
