Local News From Research to Results: 25 Years of Genomics in BC Genome BC | October 17, 2025 In British Columbia, the story of genomics is not just about scientific discovery; it’s about…karnottOctober 17, 2025 Read More
Featured Awards 2025 Research Trainee Award Recipients Michael Smith Health Research BC | October 17, 2025 The Research Trainee Program supports health researchers in the training phase of their research career…karnottOctober 17, 2025 Read More
Local News SFU School of Medicine Opens Applications, Announces Plans for New Surrey Location SFU News | October 16, 2025 SFU and the Province of British Columbia announced today that the school, Western Canada’s first…karnottOctober 16, 2025 Read More
Local News HLI Researchers Create Living Heart Tissue With Custom 3D Printer Providence Research | October 16, 2025 In the Centre for Heart Lung Innovation (HLI) at St. Paul’s Hospital, Dr. Zachary Laksman…karnottOctober 16, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week TRIM24 Controls Induction of Latent HIV-1 by Stimulating Transcriptional Elongation Horvath, R., et al. | February 3, 2023 Binding of USF1/2 and TFII-I (RBF-2) at conserved sites flanking the HIV-1 LTR enhancer is essential…mjoyFebruary 3, 2023 Read More
Publications of the Week Recent Advancements in Immunotherapy of Melanoma Using Nanotechnology-Based Strategies Bahreyni, A., et al. | February 2, 2023 Melanoma is a malignant tumor that accounts for the deadliest form of skin cancers. Despite…mjoyFebruary 2, 2023 Read More
Publications of the Week Synaptic Activity–Dependent Changes in the Hippocampal Palmitoylome Nasseri, G. G. & Matin, N., et al. | January 25, 2023 The primary focus of Dr. Shernaz Bamji's lab at present is to determine how the…mjoyJanuary 25, 2023 Read More
Publications of the Week Mapping the Iceberg of Autonomic Recovery: Mechanistic Underpinnings of Neuromodulation Following Spinal Cord Injury Samejima, s., et al. | January 24, 2023 Spinal cord injury leads to disruption in autonomic control resulting in cardiovascular, bowel, and lower…mjoyJanuary 24, 2023 Read More
Local News Next Steps in Driving Forward the Field of Nanomedicine: A Catch-Up With the Leslie Lab UBC Michael Smith Laboratories | May 30, 2025 The lab of Dr. Sabrina Leslie (MSL, Physics and Astronomy; SBME affiliate member) brings together…karnottMay 30, 2025 Read More
Local News New Inpatient Clinical Trials Unit Launches at Vancouver General Hospital, Advancing Blood Cancer Treatment Across B.C. Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute | May 29, 2025 Vancouver Coastal Health has launched British Columbia’s first dedicated inpatient clinical trials unit for early-phase…karnottMay 29, 2025 Read More
Local News New Ventures BC Announces 12 Companies for “The $10K Pitch: BC’s Startup All-Stars” T-Net | May 29, 2025 New Ventures BC announced that twelve allumni from its annual New Ventures BC Competition will…karnottMay 29, 2025 Read More
Local News From Cancer Therapies to a New Generation of Vaccines—How UBC Professor Pieter Cullis Transformed Drug Delivery UBC Faculty of Medicine | May 28, 2025 Groundbreaking treatments like targeted cancer therapies and mRNA-based vaccines would not have been possible without…karnottMay 28, 2025 Read More
Interesting Articles Scientists Despair as US Government Shutdown Drags On Nature News | January 14, 2019 Karen Osborn was supposed to be exploring hidden worlds in the Turks and Caicos, cataloguing…sciencecityJanuary 14, 2019 Read More
Interesting Articles Crowdfunding Is Financing and Promoting ‘Worst-of-the-Worst’ Bogus Cancer Therapies: Study The Vancouver Sun | January 10, 2019 The 47-year-old mother from Tennessee had chosen to forgo traditional cancer treatments for her late…sciencecityJanuary 10, 2019 Read More
Interesting Articles Trudeau Wants Canada to Be a Global Leader in Science. So Why Is He Ending a Successful, Innovative Program? The Globe and Mail | January 7, 2019 The Globe and Mail recently reported a concerning decision made by the Trudeau government: Minister…sciencecityJanuary 7, 2019 Read More
Interesting Articles Tackling the Talent Gap in the Cell and Gene Therapy Industry Biotechnology Focus | January 4, 2019 For those of us who have been following and working in the cell and gene therapy (CGT) field…sciencecityJanuary 4, 2019 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards Dr. Peter Zandstra Awarded BIOTECanada’s Gold Leaf Leadership Award BIOTECanada | August 29, 2024 BIOTECanada’s Gold Leaf Awards recognize the remarkable individuals and companies who have made significant contributions…karnottAugust 29, 2024 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards SBME Awarded $5 Million from PacifiCan for a New Biodevice Foundry UBC School of Biomedical Engineering | August 28, 2024 Together, government and philanthropic support has helped to launch the new Biodevice Foundry at SBME—a…karnottAugust 28, 2024 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards Results: Inflammation in Chronic Disease Phase II Canadian Institutes of Health Research | August 22, 2024 Funding Decisions Database for the Inflammation in Chronic Disease Phase II funding round from the…karnottAugust 22, 2024 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards New Canadian Cancer Society Research Program Aims to Decrease the 10,000 Annual Cancer Cases Caused by Workplace Exposures Canadian Cancer Society | August 20, 2024 New research grants announced today by the Canadian Cancer Society (CCS) are bringing together the…karnottAugust 20, 2024 Read More
Publications of the Week Molecular and Imaging Biomarker Responses to Brain Mutant HTT Lowering in a Mouse Model of Huntington Disease Caron, N., et al. | December 1, 2025 Therapies targeting mutant huntingtin (mHTT) reduction in the brain hold promise as disease-modifying treatments for…karnottDecember 1, 2025 Read More
Local News UBC Medicine Researchers Launch New Spinoffs to Turn Discoveries Into Impact UBC Faculty of Medicine | November 28, 2025 UBC Medicine scientists have founded six new spinoff companies that build on their research to…karnottNovember 28, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week High-Throughput Bioprinting to Produce Micropatterned Neuroepithelial Tissues and Model TSC2-Deficient Brain Malformations Farahani, N., et al. | November 28, 2025 Micropatterning technology to spatially guide the self-assembly of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) into neural…karnottNovember 28, 2025 Read More