Local News Searching for the ‘Sweet Spot’ of Tissue Repair Research2Reality | April 3, 2025 Your immune system protects you from infection, but it also helps your body with all…karnottApril 3, 2025 Read More
Local News Canada Slowest in Reporting Bird Flu at 618 Days – but COVID Shows We Can Do Better UBC Science | April 2, 2025 The global average for countries to report genetic information about bird flu, crucial to tracking…karnottApril 2, 2025 Read More
Featured Awards SBME’s Mona Behrouzian Wins UBC’s Three Minute Thesis UBC School of Biomedical Engineering | April 2, 2025 Congratulations to SBME graduate student, Mona Behrouzian, for winning UBC’s Three Minute Thesis (3MT) with…karnottApril 2, 2025 Read More
Monthly Award Summaries March 2025 Award Winners Science in Vancouver | April 1, 2025 Dr. Kaylee Byers, Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University and Host of the Nice Genes!…karnottApril 1, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week A Sparse, Spatially Biased Subtype of Mature Granule Cell Dominates Recruitment in Hippocampal-Associated Behaviors Erwin, S.R., et al. | May 11, 2020 To try and decipher how precisely granule cells of the dentate gyrus contribute to hippocampal…eabramovichMay 11, 2020 Read More
Publications of the Week ntJoin: Fast and Lightweight Assembly-Guided Scaffolding Using Minimizer Graphs Coombe, L., et al. | May 7, 2020 The Bioinformatics Technology Lab at Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre (GSC) at BC Cancer…eabramovichMay 7, 2020 Read More
Publications of the Week Pan-Cancer Analysis of Advanced Patient Tumors Reveals Interactions Between Therapy and Genomic Landscapes Pleasance, E., et al. | May 5, 2020 This in-depth analysis of the first cohort from BC Cancer’s Personalized OncoGenomics Program provides a…eabramovichMay 5, 2020 Read More
Publications of the Week The miR-185/PAK6 Axis Predicts Therapy Response and Regulates Survival of Drug-Resistant Leukemic Stem Cells in CML Lin, H., et al. | April 30, 2020 The authors performed global transcriptome profiling in leukemic stem/progenitor cells from treatment-naive chronic myeloid leukemia…eabramovichApril 30, 2020 Read More
Local News Unveiling the Invisible Defenders: How Our Cells Differ in Viral Combat UBC Michael Smith Laboratories | April 24, 2024 In the ongoing quest to understand the complexities of human biology, graduate student researcher Lucy…karnottApril 24, 2024 Read More
Local News Save the Bees Or Else We’ll All Feel the Sting Research2Reality | April 24, 2024 Did you know that bees are a vital component of our food ecosystem? Bees can…karnottApril 24, 2024 Read More
Local News Dr. Suzanne Simard is on TIME’s 100 Most Influential People of 2024 TIME Magazine | April 22, 2024 Human beings may pride themselves on the buried webs of wire and fiber-optic cables that…karnottApril 22, 2024 Read More
Local News More Awareness and Investment Needed to Support People with Long COVID: SFU Report SFU News | April 19, 2024 The recommendation is one of a series identified in a report released by the SFU-based…karnottApril 19, 2024 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards SBME Professors Carl de Boer and Dena Shahriari Win 2022 MSHR BC Scholar Awards UBC School of Biomedical Engineering | November 4, 2022 Each year, Michael Smith Health Research BC (MSHR BC) selects a handful of researchers for their Scholar…pthomsonNovember 4, 2022 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards Annie Ciernia Named a 2021 Brain Canada Future Leader in Canadian Brain Research Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health | November 4, 2022 Dr. Annie Ciernia is among 20 neuroscientists in Canada who have been awarded $100,000 each in research…pthomsonNovember 4, 2022 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards Dr. Christopher Overall Receives 2022 Helmut Holzer Award Life Sciences Institute | November 3, 2022 Professor Christopher M. Overall was awarded the 2022 Helmut Holzer Award, an honour recognizing outstanding…pthomsonNovember 3, 2022 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards Meet the CBR Graduate Award Program (GAP) Cohort 2022-23! Centre for Blood Research | November 2, 2022 Meet the incoming CBR Graduate Award Program (GAP) Cohort for 2022-23! Over the next year,…pthomsonNovember 2, 2022 Read More
Local News STEMCELL Technologies Introduces STEMprep™ Tissue Dissociator System to Accelerate Research Discoveries STEMCELL Technologies | July 2, 2025 To help scientists accelerate their workflows, STEMCELL Technologies has commercially launched the STEMprep™ Tissue Dissociator…karnottJuly 2, 2025 Read More
Featured Awards 2024–2025 William and Dorothy Gilbert Scholarship Recipients UBC Michael Smith Laboratories | July 2, 2025 We are excited to congratulate Credo Casmil and Ayşe Erdoğan for receiving the 2024-2025 William…karnottJuly 2, 2025 Read More
Local News Variational AI and Oncocross to Collaborate on AI-Driven Drug Discovery Program T-Net | July 1, 2025 Variational AI, developer of the Enki generative AI platform for drug discovery announced a co-development…karnottJuly 1, 2025 Read More