Invest in BC Presented by Lumira Ventures
2022-11-02 02:00 - 2022-11-03 10:00 (America/Vancouver) | Online
Life Sciences BC is excited to announce the 7th annual Invest in BC presented by Lumira Ventures, taking place on November 2nd & 3rd, 2022.

Invest in BC presented by Lumira Ventures is an opportunity to bring together stakeholders in the healthcare innovation ecosystem. The two-day event includes company pitches, presentations, and panel discussion, giving entrepreneurs a platform to share their stories and receive feedback and engagement from a wide range of investor stakeholders. Investor participants range from angel investors, venture capital, corporate venture, and foundations. Life Sciences BC is very excited to once again offer this chance for companies to pitch their projects, attract attention, solicit support, and secure investment that will aid them in their continued growth trajectory.
Event Details:
Date: November 2nd & 3rd, 2022
Time: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM each day
Location: Virtual

Check back soon to see which BC companies will be pitching at this year’s event!

9th TFRI Scientific Meeting
2022-11-03 18:00 - 2022-11-06 19:00 | Vancouver Convention Centre, 1055 Canada Place, Vancouver
The Terry Fox Research Institute is pleased to announce the return of its scientific meeting in November 2022, with an expanded agenda and more attendees to welcome a new community of funded researchers as well as returning ones!
The theme for this year’s meeting is Cancer Research: Past, Present and Future. Our Scientific Organizing Committee is in the midst of developing the scientific program for the meeting right now!
This meeting will be at the Vancouver Convention Centre (VCC) West Nov. 3-6 (including travel dates), commencing with registration Nov. 3 (evening) and the meeting on Friday Nov. 4 and Saturday Nov. 5. There will be a tribute to TFRI’s Founding President and Scientific Director Dr. Victor Ling at a dinner celebration on the evening of Nov. 5. TFRI will follow COVID protocols in place at the time of meeting.
TFRI organizes a Scientific Meeting (SM) as an opportunity for the whole community of Terry Fox-funded researchers to get together to share ideas and to discuss their research. The meeting is by invitation only. Our meeting this year will be a two-day session consisting of several plenaries, poster presentations and rapid-fire talks as well as breakouts. We will conclude with a celebratory dinner in recognition of Dr. Victor Ling’s contribution to TFRI over 15 years. Registration for this event is by-invitation only.

Medical Genetics Research Day 2022
2022-11-04 10:30 - 19:00 | Life Sciences Centre, 2350 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver
What is Research Day? Medical Genetics Research Day brings together students, staff, and faculty from all of our Vancouver lab locations to celebrate the high-caliber research in our department. Trainee posters will showcase the research projects of our students and post-doctoral fellows, and offer a platform for networking both with other research groups, as well as with the companies that support our valuable work. With the current province-wide status of the pandemic and vaccination efforts, we plan on returning to LSI for this year’s Research Day.
Poster Competition: Genetic Counselling students; and MSc and PhD graduate students and medical residents whose supervisors are Medical Genetics faculty, are encouraged to present their research with a poster and 5 minute talk and 5 minute question period format. Registered presenters are automatically entered to be judged for prizes!
Undergraduates and post-doctoral fellows with Medical Genetics research supervisors are welcome to present but are not eligible for prizes. Students from other programs may be given presentations depending on availability, but will not be eligible for awards.

Lost in Translation: Leveraging Preclinical Models to Interrogate Effects of Developmental Cannabis Exposure
2022-11-04 11:00 - 12:00 | Rudy North Lecture Theatre, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health & Online, 2215 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z3, Canada
Host: Melanie Lysenko-Martin
Speaker: Dr. Ryan McLaughlin, Washington State University
Maternal cannabis use is a growing public health concern, yet the long-term effects of prenatal cannabis exposure remain elusive. Our understanding of how prenatal cannabis exposure affects the brain and behavior is critically informed by preclinical animal models that capture core components of human cannabis use. To this end, our laboratory and others have recently developed more translational models of cannabis use that have potential to provide unprecedented insight into the protracted effects of cannabis exposure during sensitive developmental stages. In this presentation, I will describe recent data from our laboratory using a novel model of cannabis vapor self-administration in pregnant rat dams to investigate the long-term effects of maternal cannabis use on emotional reactivity, cognitive flexibility, and cannabis-seeking behavior. Additionally, I will present emerging data from our laboratory revealing altered excitatory inputs onto corticostriatal projection neurons in cannabis-exposed adult offspring, which could represent a mechanism by which prenatal cannabis exposure impacts reward-relevant behavior. Altogether, our data support the use of the cannabis vapor self-administration approach to investigate long-term effects of maternal cannabis use in developing offspring.
Zoom option if unable to attend in person

Zoom link here (click on “Join a meeting”)
Meeting ID: 99412 188589
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Building Biotech Expo 2022
2022-11-10 18:00 - 20:00 | Online
The SBN’s Building Biotech Expo is the leading networking event with the best and the brightest of the Canada Biotech and Life Sciences industry. This year, we’ve pivoted our flagship event virtually. This annual event continues to attract and unite 100+ students every year, along with professionals from the life sciences, pharmaceutical and clinical sectors among many others. We’ve also had the pleasure of hosting several prominent organizations as exhibitors. The result is a gathering of students and professionals, eager to share ideas and forge a strong biotech community that will help shape Canada’s biotech future.

Blakes Breakfast Speaking Series: Cell and Gene Therapy
2022-11-15 23:30 - 2022-11-16 02:00 | Terminal City Club, 837 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada
On Wednesday, November 16th Life Sciences BC will hold its Blakes Breakfast Speaking Series on gene therapy at the Terminal City Club in Vancouver. The Blakes Breakfast Speaking series is our longest-standing event series and one of our most popular. These breakfasts include presentations by local, national, and multinational life science companies and typically attract a cross-section of our life sciences community members.
Theme: Gene Therapy
Confirmed Speakers:

Alex Chen, President, BriGene Biosciences
Don Enns, Chief Business Officer, NanoVation Therapeutics
Joseph Garcia, Partner, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Wendy Hurlburt, President & CEO, Life Sciences BC
Dr. Timothy Key, Director, Business Development, Notch Therapeutics
Dr. Blair R. Leavitt, CEO and Co-Founder, Incisive Genetics

The Breakfast Speaking Series is proudly presented by Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP.
