The Office of the VP, Research and Innovation will be hosting a reception on June 6, 2022 to acknowledge the achievements of our researchers. Congratulations to all recipients! Supporting early-career researchers ready to launch the next stage of their careers Hamideh Bayrampour, Family Practice (Medicine) UBC Vancouver Zachary Hudson, Chemistry (Science) UBC Vancouver Mary Jung, Health and Social Development (School of…
British Columbia has the people, ideas and resources to create an innovation ecosystem, generating local solutions with global impact. To support B.C.’s boldest and brightest changemakers, the Government of Canada is making strategic investments in local organizations that are catalysts for Canada-made innovation with a growing global demand.
Faculty of medicine community members Drs. Silke Cresswell, Angela Devlin, Connie Eaves and Evelyn Stewart are among the nominees for the 40th annual YWCA Metro Vancouver’s Women of Distinction Awards. The awards recognize individuals for their outstanding contributions to the well-being of communities across Metro Vancouver. Drs. Cresswell, Devlin, Eaves and Stewart have been nominated in the Research, the Sciences &…
Read the Publication This week we profile a recent publication in Nature Biotechnology from Dr. Daniel Kirouac (pictured) and a team in Dr. Peter Zandstra’s lab at Notch Therapeutics and UBC. Can you provide a brief overview of your lab’s current research focus? Notch Therapeutics is working to maximize the benefit of T cell therapies. Current T cell therapies (e.g.,…
The Dean of Science Excellence in Service Awards recognize staff, students, and faculty in the UBC Faculty of Science whose service contributions have had a significant positive impact in achieving UBC Science’s mission. A maximum of 6 staff (including one PDF or RA) and 2 faculty awards of $2,000 each, and 2 student awards of $1,000 each were awarded. This year’s award…
Regulatory T cells (Tregs) are essential for immune homeostasis and suppression of pathological autoimmunity but can also play a detrimental role in cancer progression via inhibition of anti-tumour immunity. Thus, there is broad applicability for therapeutic Treg targeting, either to enhance function, for example through adoptive cell therapy (ACT), or to inhibit function with small molecules or antibody-mediated blockade. For…
Launched in 2017, the JDRF-CIHR Partnership to Defeat Diabetes is a landmark collaboration between the Government of Canada, through the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) and JDRF Canada for a total combined investment of $30 million to support transformative type 1 diabetes (T1D) research. This Partnership was renewed for a further $30 million through Federal Budget 2021 and through…
Dr. Pieter Cullis, a professor in the UBC faculty of medicine’s department of biochemistry and molecular biology, has been awarded the 2023 Killam Prize for Health Sciences. Dr. Cullis and his UBC colleagues are responsible for fundamental advances in the development of nanomedicines employing lipid nanoparticle (LNP) technology for cancer therapies, gene therapies and vaccines. This work contributed to five drugs…
There has been a lot of curiosity surrounding SFU’s Institute for Neuroscience and Neurotechnology’s (INN) work on developing an open science framework at the university. We sat down with project leads, psychology professor and INN associate director Brianne Kent and INN senior program manager and informatics team lead Kelly Shen, to discuss how open science will help lead to more research…
Low carb, high fat diets, also called keto diets, have been gaining popularity as a quick way to lose weight.1 It involves consuming very low levels of carbohydrates, like bread, rice, pasta, and other grains, and high levels of fat, to induce the body into a ‘ketogenic’ state, using fats instead of carbohydrates as the primary energy source. However, a recent…
