AwardsFeatured Awards UBC Medical Student Mohit Sodhi Receives 2022 Canadian Medical Hall of Fame Award UBC Faculty of Medicine | September 2, 2022 UBC faculty of medicine student Mohit Sodhi has been awarded a Canadian Medical Hall of…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
AwardsMonthly Award Summaries August 2022 Award Winners Science in Vancouver | September 1, 2022 Dr. Philip Hieter (pictured) from UBC received a Canadian Institutes of Health Research grant to…pthomsonSeptember 1, 2022 Read More
Publications of the Week DLL4 and VCAM1 Enhance the Emergence of T Cell–Competent Hematopoietic Progenitors From Human Pluripotent Stem Cells Michaels, Y., & Edgar, J., et al. | August 31, 2022 In a recent publication, researchers in Dr. Peter Zandstra's lab developed a clinically relevant process…pthomsonAugust 31, 2022 Read More
Local News What Do We Know About Microbes and Aging? An Interview with Dr. Brett Finlay Michael Smith Laboratories | April 29, 2019 What do we know about microbes and aging? Simi Sara, an award-winning journalist, interviews Dr. Brett…sciencecityApril 29, 2019 Read More
Local News Genome BC Invests $1 Million in Funding to Innovative Medical Diagnostics Company Genome BC | April 26, 2019 Genome BC is pleased to announce $1 million in funding to LightIntegra Technology (LIT). LIT has developed…sciencecityApril 26, 2019 Read More
Local News Tissue-Printing Firm Muscles into B.C.’s Top Biotech Business in Vancouver | April 26, 2019 In the competition to reach commercialization, many of B.C.’s budding biotech companies are running in…sciencecityApril 26, 2019 Read More
Local News UBC Attracts over $40M to Host Networks of Centres of Excellence in Nanomedicines UBC Faculty of Medicine | April 23, 2019 The NanoMedicines Innovation Network (NMIN) has been awarded $18.5 million in new funding from the Networks of Centres…sciencecityApril 23, 2019 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards Celebrating Research Excellence: Nine Scholars Recognized as Distinguished SFU Professors SFU | August 8, 2023 Nine Simon Fraser University (SFU) researchers have been named 2023 Distinguished SFU Professors—bringing the total to…pthomsonAugust 8, 2023 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards Congratulations to LSI Researchers Awarded Funding through the Spring 2023 CIHR Project Grant Competition! Life Sciences Institute | August 5, 2023 Ten LSI researchers were awarded funds in the CIHR Spring 2023 Project Grant competition. Listed…pthomsonAugust 5, 2023 Read More
Publications of the Week Eras of Designer Tregs: Harnessing Synthetic Biology for Immune Suppression Tuomela, K., et al. | August 4, 2023 Since their discovery, CD4+CD25hiFOXP3hi regulatory T cells (Tregs) have been firmly established as a critical cell…pthomsonAugust 4, 2023 Read More