Local News Q&A with Dr. Kerryn Matthews, Recipient of the 2025 Neil Mackenzie Mentorship Excellence Award UBC Centre for Blood Research | September 11, 2025 I was both surprised and deeply honoured. Mentorship has always felt like a natural extension…karnottSeptember 11, 2025 Read More
Featured Awards Recipients of 2025 BC Cancer Emerging Multidisciplinary Research Programs Announced BC Cancer Research | September 10, 2025 BC Cancer’s 2025 Cancer Emerging Multidisciplinary Research Programs supports research teams to initiate novel multidisciplinary…karnottSeptember 10, 2025 Read More
Local News Dr. David Bangsberg Appointed Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences SFU Faculty of Health Sciences | September 10, 2025 Simon Fraser University’s (SFU) Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) is pleased to announce that internationally…karnottSeptember 10, 2025 Read More
Interesting Articles Launch of CACHE Challenge #7 Conscience | September 9, 2025 The CACHE Challenges, made possible by the Government of Canada's Strategic Innovation Fund, offer an…karnottSeptember 9, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week The Glycosyltransferase ST3GAL4 Drives Immune Evasion in Acute Myeloid Leukemia by Synthesizing Ligands for the Glyco-Immune Checkpoint Receptor Siglec-9 Krishnamoorthy, V., et al. | December 3, 2024 Immunotherapy has demonstrated promise as a treatment for acute myeloid leukemia (AML). However, there is…karnottDecember 3, 2024 Read More
Publications of the Week Microbial Intestinal Dysbiosis Drives Long-Term Allergic Susceptibility by Sculpting an ILC2-B1 Cell-Innate IgE Axis Kabil, A., et al. | November 28, 2024 The abundance and diversity of intestinal commensal bacteria influence systemic immunity with impact on disease…karnottNovember 28, 2024 Read More
Publications of the Week Luminal Breast Epithelial Cells of BRCA1 or BRCA2 Mutation Carriers and Noncarriers Harbor Common Breast Cancer Copy Number Alterations Williams, M., et al. | November 27, 2024 The prevalence and nature of somatic copy number alterations (CNAs) in breast epithelium and their…karnottNovember 27, 2024 Read More
Publications of the Week Antithrombotic Coating with Sheltered Positive Charges Prevents Contact Activation by Controlling Factor XII–Biointerface Binding Ji, H., et al. | November 18, 2024 Antithrombotic surfaces that prevent coagulation activation without interfering with haemostasis are required for blood-contacting devices.…karnottNovember 18, 2024 Read More
Local News Building Better Storage for Genomics Data Genome BC | August 7, 2025 Genomics research is advancing science, helping doctors match patients with appropriate treatments, tracking the spread…karnottAugust 7, 2025 Read More
Local News MS May Begin Far Earlier Than Previously Thought | August 7, 2025 UBC researchers find that people with MS increased their healthcare usage up to 15 years…karnottAugust 7, 2025 Read More
Local News Bringing Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Ceremony to Child Health Research BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute | August 6, 2025 Indigenous children are the fastest-growing population in Canada but still experience disproportionately negative health outcomes.…karnottAugust 6, 2025 Read More
Local News Helping the BC Wine Industry Beat the Heat: Scientists Seek Genomic Solutions to Grapevine Heat Stress Genome BC | August 4, 2025 Climate change is challenging BC wine producers. Extreme weather events such as rising temperatures, changing…karnottAugust 4, 2025 Read More
Interesting Articles Wall Legacy Fund Supports Graduate Student Research UBC Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies | April 11, 2024 UBC has launched the inaugural competition for the Wall Fellowships and Wall Research Awards. These…karnottApril 11, 2024 Read More
Interesting Articles TFRI–MOHCCN Technology Development Awards The Terry Fox Research Institute | April 5, 2024 The TFRI-MOHCCN Technology Development Awards provide funding to projects to develop additional profiling technologies that…karnottApril 5, 2024 Read More
Interesting Articles The ‘Mother Tree’ Idea Is Everywhere — But How Much of It Is Real? Nature | March 28, 2024 It was a call from a reporter that first made ecologist Jason Hoeksema think things…karnottMarch 28, 2024 Read More
Interesting Articles The Government of Canada Supports Interdisciplinary Research Centres to Address Global Challenges Through the Bioeconomy Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | March 19, 2024 The Government of Canada, through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the…karnottMarch 19, 2024 Read More
Featured Awards Faculty of Medicine Distinguished Achievement Award Recipients 2025 UBC Faculty of Medicine | July 3, 2025 Each year, the Faculty of Medicine recognizes faculty members who have made exceptional contributions in…karnottJuly 3, 2025 Read More
Monthly Award Summaries June 2025 Award Winners Science in Vancouver | July 2, 2025 Dr. Tiam Heydari from UBC This month’s spotlight features Dr. Tiam Heydari (pictured), a postdoctoral…karnottJuly 2, 2025 Read More
Featured Awards 2025 FHS Undergraduate Awards SFU Faculty of Health Sciences | July 2, 2025 This award goes to the student whose activities and efforts support the FHS community, and…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
Publications of the Week Drug Tolerance and Persistence to EGFR Inhibitor Treatment Are Mediated by an ILK-SFK-YAP Signaling Axis in Lung Adenocarcinoma Shi, R., et al. | September 19, 2025 This week, we profile a recent publication in Oncogene by Dr. William Lockwood's lab (pictured). Since…karnottSeptember 19, 2025 Read More
Local News New Clinical Trials Unit Aims To Keep Biotech Innovation in B.C. Business Intelligence for B.C. | September 19, 2025 A new clinical trials unit (CTU) will allow B.C. life sciences companies to test early-stage…karnottSeptember 19, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week ERBB2/HER2 Alterations in ctDNA and Metachronous Tissues of Patients with Metastatic Urothelial Cancer Vandekerkhove, G., et al. | September 18, 2025 HER2 targeting is increasingly relevant in metastatic urothelial cancer (mUC) because of emerging antibody–drug conjugates,…karnottSeptember 18, 2025 Read More