AwardsMonthly Award Summaries July 2024 Award Winners Science in Vancouver | August 1, 2024 BC Cancer's Dr. Poul Sorensen (pictured) has been awarded with a pediatric Ewing sarcoma research…karnottAugust 1, 2024 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards UBC Medicine Researchers Awarded More than $25 Million in CIHR Project Grants UBC Faculty of Medicine | July 31, 2024 UBC Faculty of Medicine researchers are leading 38 projects awarded more than $25 million in…karnottJuly 31, 2024 Read More
Local News Advancing Safety in Olympic Wrestling Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute | July 30, 2024 A comprehensive injury prevention initiative developed by Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute researcher Dr. Babak…karnottJuly 30, 2024 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards 2024 Trainee Endowment Award Winners Announced Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health | July 30, 2024 Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health Trainee Endowment…karnottJuly 30, 2024 Read More
Publications of the Week Clear Cell and Endometrioid Carcinomas: Are Their Differences Attributable to Distinct Cells of Origin? Cochrane, D.R. and Huntsman, D.G., et al. | July 17, 2017 Endometrial epithelium is the presumed tissue of origin for both eutopic and endometriosis-derived clear cell…sciencecityJuly 17, 2017 Read More
Publications of the Week Optogenetic Rewiring of Thalamocortical Circuits to Restore Function in the Stroke Injured Brain Tennant, K.A. and Brown, C.E., et al. | July 14, 2017 Read the Publication This week we profile a recent publication in Nature Communications from Dr.…sciencecityJuly 14, 2017 Read More
Publications of the Week Myelin Regulatory Factor Drives Remyelination in Multiple Sclerosis Duncan, G.J. and Tetzlaff, W., et al. | July 12, 2017 Remyelination is limited in the majority of multiple sclerosis (MS) lesions despite the presence of…sciencecityJuly 12, 2017 Read More
Publications of the Week REVIEW: Synthetic Lethality and Cancer O'Neil, N.J. and Hieter, P., et al. | July 10, 2017 A synthetic lethal interaction occurs between two genes when the perturbation of either gene alone…sciencecityJuly 10, 2017 Read More
Local News Old Drugs Hint at New Ways To Beat Chronic Pain Life Sciences Institute | September 7, 2022 Pain is an important alarm system engineered to provoke rapid withdrawal from harmful situations. But…pthomsonSeptember 7, 2022 Read More
Local News Synergy Program Student Profile: Angie Peng Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health | September 2, 2022 Angie Peng is a second-year UBC School of Biomedical Engineering student who is working with…pthomsonSeptember 2, 2022 Read More
Local News UBC Team Developing Oral Insulin Tablet Sees Breakthrough Results UBC News | September 2, 2022 A team of University of British Columbia researchers working on developing oral insulin tablets as…pthomsonSeptember 2, 2022 Read More
Local News SaNOtize Announces $24 Million in Series B Funding to Advance Its Nitric Oxide-Based Therapeutics, Including Nasal Spray for the Treatment and Prevention of COVID-19 SaNOtize | September 2, 2022 SaNOtize Research & Development Corp., (“SaNOtize”), a Canadian anti-infective-focused therapeutics company, today announced an oversubscribed…pthomsonSeptember 2, 2022 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards UBC Receives $14 Million in Federal Funding for COVID-19 Research UBC News | June 26, 2020 Researchers at the University of British Columbia have received a combined total of $14.3 million…eabramovichJune 26, 2020 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship and Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship Winners Announced UBC Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies | June 25, 2020 Twenty-one doctoral students at UBC have received a Vanier Canada Graduate Fellowship, and three postdoctoral fellows…eabramovichJune 25, 2020 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards Carolina Tropini Named a Johnson & Johnson Scholar in Highly Competitive Global Competition UBC Life Sciences Institute | June 19, 2020 LSI’s Carolina Tropini, an Assistant Professor in the School of Biomedical Engineering and the Department…eabramovichJune 19, 2020 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards Using Human Organoids to Understand and Prevent Diabetic Vascular Complications Life Sciences Institute | June 17, 2020 LSI Director Josef Penninger and British colleagues have been awarded a UK-Canada Diabetes Research Team…eabramovichJune 17, 2020 Read More
Local News SFU Study Sheds New Light on What Causes Long-Term Disability After a Stroke and Offers New Path Toward Possible Treatment SFU News | December 19, 2024 The paper, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows how the thalamus…karnottDecember 19, 2024 Read More
Local News Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute Recognized as a Premier Hospital-Based Research Institute in Canada Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute | December 18, 2024 Research Infosource Inc., a Canadian research, consulting and publishing firm, has released its annual ranking…karnottDecember 18, 2024 Read More
Featured Awards Laura Evgin Selected Canada Gairdner Early Career Investigator BC Cancer Research Institute | December 18, 2024 Congratulations to Dr. Laura Evgin for being selected as one of the 2025 Canada Gairdner…karnottDecember 18, 2024 Read More