Diabetes is a disease in which the body either can’t produce insulin (type 1), or the insulin the pancreas does produce doesn’t work well (type 2). This chronic condition affects over half a billion people worldwide, including 5.7 million Canadians, and can lead to complications such as stroke, blindness and amputation. People with diabetes need to manage their blood sugar…
Congratulations to Dr. Melissa Chen on being selected as one of the 23 recipients of the 2022-2023 Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships, awarded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). Each year, these prestigious Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships are offered to scholars who have a record of research excellence and leadership, have proposed a research program of exceptionally high quality, and…
UBC faculty of medicine student Dr. Rohit Singla has been awarded a 2023 Canadian Medical Hall of Fame (CMHF) Award for leadership and innovation. The awards recognize medical students across Canada with an established track record of community leadership, superior communication skills and demonstrated interest in advancing knowledge. Dr. Singla is currently an MD/PhD candidate in biomedical engineering, who received…
UBC faculty of medicine researchers have been awarded $7 million in new funding to advance precision medicine approaches that promise to transform diabetes treatment. The funding, from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research in collaboration with JDRF Canada, provides $3.5 million to two UBC-led projects aimed at improving diabetes treatment, care and prevention. Canada is among the ten countries with…
UBC faculty of medicine community members Drs. Penny Ballem, Jane Buxton and Pieter Cullis have been appointed to the Order of British Columbia, the province’s highest form of recognition. They are among fourteen exceptional people receiving the Order in 2023. The honour is bestowed annually in recognition of outstanding provincial, national or international impact. “This honour is a mark of…
Nine Simon Fraser University (SFU) researchers have been named 2023 Distinguished SFU Professors—bringing the total to 40 awarded scholars since the program’s inception in 2019. David Vocadlo’s interdisciplinary research focuses on developing and using new chemical tools to improve our understanding of how carbohydrates influence cell function, with particular emphasis on their roles in neurodegenerative diseases. He and his team have published…
Ten LSI researchers were awarded funds in the CIHR Spring 2023 Project Grant competition. Listed below are the LSI-based PIs and a description of the funded projects, including one Priority Announcement and one Bridge grant. In total, these grants were awarded > $8 million from this competition. For our nervous system to function each nerve that controls our movement or…
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) recently announced the results of its Spring 2023 project grant competition. Congratulations to all the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health members who were awarded grants, with 12 projects receiving over $9 million in funding. Overall, UBC researchers are leading 50 projects that have been awarded $37 million in funding
From kelp to hops, bees to berries, BC researchers are harnessing the power of genomics to solve challenges facing the province’s agriculture and aquaculture sectors that stem from climate change. Eight new projects have received a combined $1.84 million in funding from the Genomic Innovation for Regenerative Agriculture, Food and Fisheries (GIRAFF) program – a collaboration between Genome BC and…
SFU Faculty of Science is proud to announce this year’s recipients of the second annual Faculty of Science Research Awards recognizing excellence in research accomplishments in early career and beyond. Dr. Lee joined MBB as an Assistant Professor in January 2020 and uses a systems biology approach to study bacterial pathogen virulence and resistance from both the pathogen and host…