Local News MSFHR-Funded Research Identifies Enzyme Potentially Responsible For Skin Blistering Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research | July 26, 2018 Blisters develop when layers of skin separate and fill with fluid as a result of…sciencecityJuly 26, 2018 Read More
Local News New UBC Professorship to Look at Pot’s Potential in Easing the Opioid Crisis The Tyee | July 26, 2018 UBC is creating Canada’s first professorship of cannabis science to investigate the role that marijuana-based…sciencecityJuly 26, 2018 Read More
Local News A day in the Lab: Biobanking Resources Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute | July 25, 2018 One of the many services offered by the Clinical Research Unit (CRU) at Vancouver Coastal Health Research…sciencecityJuly 25, 2018 Read More
Local News Could a Deadly Mushroom Help Battle Cancer? Medium | July 25, 2018 Infamous. That might be the best description for Amanita phalloides. The highly toxic mushroom has been…sciencecityJuly 25, 2018 Read More
Local News Genetic Marker for Drug Risk in Multiple Sclerosis Offers Path toward Precision Medicine Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health | July 24, 2018 A team of researchers has uncovered a specific gene variant associated with an adverse drug…sciencecityJuly 24, 2018 Read More
Local News A Protein That Helps Prevent Diabetes Could Be a Target for Future Treatments BC Children's Hospital Research Institute | July 24, 2018 In Dr. Francis Lynn’s lab, part of the Canucks for Kids Fund Childhood Diabetes Laboratories at…sciencecityJuly 24, 2018 Read More
Local News Internship Programs Help Spark Innovation for Students, Industry Mitacs | July 20, 2018 Students throughout the province are benefiting from a provincial investment of $10 million in internship…sciencecityJuly 20, 2018 Read More
Local News Multiple Sclerosis Patients Had Higher Incidence Other Conditions: UBC Study CTV News | July 19, 2018 Conditions such as sleep problems, irritable bowel syndrome and depression are more common among multiple…sciencecityJuly 19, 2018 Read More
Local News Four Therapeutic Lung Studies Now Underway at St. Paul’s Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences | July 18, 2018 Four new inflammatory airway disease trials are underway with the support of CHÉOS — staff…sciencecityJuly 18, 2018 Read More
Local News New Step for TxCell’s Lead CAR-Treg Program in the Prevention of Transplant Rejection TxCell | July 17, 2018 TxCell, a developer of cellular immunotherapies based on regulatory T cells (Tregs) for inflammation, autoimmunity and…sciencecityJuly 17, 2018 Read More