AwardsFeatured Awards CHÉOS Scientist Receives AHA Young Investigator Award Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences | November 30, 2017 Dr. Brian Grunau, CHÉOS Scientist and emergency physician at St. Paul’s Hospital, was recently recognized for…sciencecityNovember 30, 2017 Read More
Publications of the Week The North American Bullfrog Draft Genome Provides Insight into Hormonal Regulation of Long Noncoding RNA Hammond, S.A. and Birol, I., et al. | November 30, 2017 Frogs play important ecological roles, and several species are important model organisms for scientific research.…sciencecityNovember 30, 2017 Read More
Local News Outrunning Disease: A New Key to Unlock the Relationship between Our Genes and Drugs Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute | November 29, 2017 A breakthrough technology, now in the hands of Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute scientists, is…sciencecityNovember 29, 2017 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards Dr. Dessa Sadovnick Is the 2018 Women Against Multiple Sclerosis Honouree Women Against Multiple Sclerosis | November 29, 2017 Dr. Dessa Sadovnick is a Professor in the Department of Medical Genetics and the Division of…sciencecityNovember 29, 2017 Read More
Publications of the Week Oncolytic Virotherapy Blockade by Microglia and Macrophages Requires STAT1/3 Delwar, Z.M. and Jia, W., et al. | November 28, 2017 Clinical tumors are highly heterogenic that contain many non-tumor cells. In the case of malignant…sciencecityNovember 28, 2017 Read More
Local News Science Is Alive and Thriving at Simon Fraser University The Vancouver Sun | November 28, 2017 I was recently talking with someone who should have known better, and was taken aback…sciencecityNovember 28, 2017 Read More
Local News New Technique Can Detect Impurities in Ground Beef within Minutes UBC News | November 28, 2017 Researchers at the University of British Columbia have found a better way to identify unwanted…sciencecityNovember 28, 2017 Read More
Local News UBC’s Faculty of Medicine Has Most Highly Cited Researchers among Canadian Medical Schools UBC Faculty of Medicine | November 27, 2017 The UBC Faculty of Medicine has ten members on the 2017 list of Highly Cited…sciencecityNovember 27, 2017 Read More
Publications of the Week REVIEW: Towards a Genomics-Informed, Real-Time, Global Pathogen Surveillance System Gardy, J.L. and Loman, N.J. | November 27, 2017 The recent Ebola and Zika epidemics demonstrate the need for the continuous surveillance, rapid diagnosis…sciencecityNovember 27, 2017 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards Roger Wong Named 2017 Trevor Howell Guest Lecturer by the British Geriatrics Society UBC Faculty of Medicine | November 24, 2017 Roger Wong, Executive Associate Dean, Education, has been selected by the British Geriatrics Society (BGS)…sciencecityNovember 24, 2017 Read More