Local News A Two-Decade Quest for Targeted Cancer TreatmentsResearch2Reality | February 16, 2022“The challenge with doing childhood cancer research is that most people in the world, they…pthomsonFebruary 16, 2022 Read More
Local News Futuristic Coating for Hospital Fabrics and Activewear Kills COVID and E. coliUBC News | February 16, 2022UBC researchers have developed an inexpensive, non-toxic coating for almost any fabric that decreases the…pthomsonFebruary 16, 2022 Read More
Local News BC Researcher Finds Sustainable and Economic Ways to Produce Anti-Cancer Drugs from PlantsMichael Smith Health Research BC | February 15, 2022Award-winning biochemist and Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar Dr. Thu-Thuy Dang has found a…pthomsonFebruary 15, 2022 Read More
Publications of the Week Telomeres, Aging, and Cancer: The Big PictureLansdorp, P. M. | February 14, 2022The daily loss of cells in tissues such as skin, gut and blood is compensated…pthomsonFebruary 14, 2022 Read More
Local News Vancouver Lab Hopes E. Coli Treatment Could Help Cure Crohn’s DiseaseStarMetro Vancouver | September 27, 2018Doctors at a Vancouver lab are developing a treatment for Crohn’s disease that they say…sciencecitySeptember 27, 2018 Read More
Local News Faculty of Science Welcomes New Dean!SFU Faculty of Science | September 26, 2018Why would a scientist from New Zealand, who has an international research program covering the…sciencecitySeptember 26, 2018 Read More
Local News How Michael Smith Put B.C.’s Life Sciences Community on the Map with a Nobel Prize 25 Years AgoThe Vancouver Sun | September 25, 2018The late Nobel Prize winner Michael Smith was a good, but not spectacular, student who…sciencecitySeptember 25, 2018 Read More
Local News B.C. Women’s Hospital Preemie Baby Biobank First of Its Kind in CanadaCBC News | September 24, 2018Unique research is taking place at B.C. Women's Hospital and one of the doctors taking…sciencecitySeptember 24, 2018 Read More
Local News New BloodUBC Science | November 16, 2022Dr. Stephen Withers has learned a lot about the economics of blood over the past…pthomsonNovember 16, 2022 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards Michael John Page Postdoctoral Fellowship Award Recipient 2022: Dr. Miffy Hok Yan ChengThe Centre for Blood Research | November 15, 2022My work mainly focuses on delivering gene therapies, where we develop delivery platforms called liposomes…pthomsonNovember 15, 2022 Read More
Local News Faculty Profile: Dr. Sarah KraeutnerDjavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health | November 15, 2022Growing up, Dr. Sarah Kraeutner liked to build things and had always wanted to be an engineer.…pthomsonNovember 15, 2022 Read More