Local News UBC Medicine Startups Propel Global Health Innovations Through Venture Founder UBC Faculty of Medicine | March 13, 2026 Seven startup ventures founded by UBC Faculty of Medicine community members have joined the 51st…karnottMarch 13, 2026 Read More
Publications of the Week Self-Multimerization of mRNA LNP-Derived Antigen Improves Antibody Responses Despins, C., et al. | March 12, 2026 Background: mRNA LNP technology is now being widely applied as a highly effective vaccine platform.…karnottMarch 12, 2026 Read More
Featured Awards Dr. Stephen MacDonald Recognized With Faculty of Science Excellence in Service Award UBC Michael Smith Laboratories | March 12, 2026 We’re excited to extend our congratulations to Stephen MacDonald, our MSL IT Director, for receiving…karnottMarch 12, 2026 Read More
Local News New Book Examines How COVID-19 Crisis Entrenched Inequality for Women Around the World SFU Faculty of Health Sciences | March 11, 2026 A newly released compendium, Feminism and COVID-19: How Women Fare in the Face of a…karnottMarch 11, 2026 Read More
Publications of the Week Cortical Effects of Dopamine Replacement Account for Clinical Response Variability in Parkinson’s Disease Wiesman, A., et al. | July 4, 2025 Individual variability in clinical response to dopamine replacement therapy (DRT) is a key barrier to…karnottJuly 4, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week Human De Novo Mutation Rates From a Four-Generation Pedigree Reference Porubsky, D., et al. | June 23, 2025 Understanding the human de novo mutation (DNM) rate requires complete sequence information1. Here using five…karnottJune 23, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week NOTCH1 Dimeric Signaling Is Essential for T-Cell Leukemogenesis and Leukemia Maintenance Tamiro, F., et al. | June 20, 2025 T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) is an aggressive malignancy that is characterized by an expansion…karnottJune 20, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week Functional Targeting of ILC2s and ILC3s Reveals Selective Roles in Intestinal Fibrosis and Homeostasis Kabil, A., et al. | June 12, 2025 Innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) are long-lived, tissue-resident cell analogs to T helper subsets that lack…karnottJune 12, 2025 Read More
Local News SFU Women Research Chairs Share What It Takes to Close the Gender Gap in Science SFU News | February 20, 2026 IDWGS is the day established by the United Nations General Assembly to support full and…karnottFebruary 20, 2026 Read More
Local News Celebrating Women and Girls in Science: Alumni Catch-Up With Dr. Priye Iworima UBC Michael Smith Laboratories | February 20, 2026 Dr. Priye Iworima is a Michael Smith Laboratories alum from the lab of Dr. Jamie…karnottFebruary 20, 2026 Read More
Local News Genome BC and UBC Launch Biomining Innovation Partnership to Transform Mining Practices Genome BC | February 19, 2026 A new partnership between Genome British Columbia (Genome BC) and the University of British Columbia…karnottFebruary 19, 2026 Read More
Local News Understanding Cholesterol’s Role in Muscular Dystrophy Centre for Heart Lung Innovation | February 18, 2026 On January 19, 2026, Zeren Sun, a PhD candidate working with Dr. Pascal Bernatchez, gave…karnottFebruary 18, 2026 Read More
Interesting Articles Scholar and Health Professional-Investigator Programs: 2025 Competitions Now Open Michael Smith Health Research BC | November 4, 2024 Michael Smith Health Research BC’s Scholar and Health Professional-Investigator (HP-I) awards provide funding to support…karnottNovember 4, 2024 Read More
Interesting Articles Call for Abstracts: Alberta-British Columbia Islet Workshop 2025 The BC Diabetes Research Network | October 28, 2024 We would like to extend an invitation to scientists and trainees to attend the Alberta-British…karnottOctober 28, 2024 Read More
Interesting Articles Notice of Upcoming Funding Opportunity: Pandemic Research Platforms Interim Funding Canadian Institutes of Health Research | October 28, 2024 The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) is pleased to announce the upcoming launch of…karnottOctober 28, 2024 Read More
Interesting Articles Science Fair Foundation BC Announces Semi-Finalists for the Sixth Annual Youth Innovation Showcase Science Fair Foundation BC | October 23, 2024 Today, the Science Fair Foundation BC announced this year's outstanding Semi-Finalists for the Youth Innovation…karnottOctober 23, 2024 Read More
Featured Awards 2025 Mitacs Innovation Awards Celebrate Ideas, Research, and Canadian Innovation Talent Mitacs | November 24, 2025 The 2025 Mitacs Innovation Awards, presented at National Arts Centre and streamed online to a…karnottNovember 24, 2025 Read More
Featured Awards 2025 Navigator Research Program Huntington Society of Canada | November 19, 2025 Dr. Blair Leavitt is a full Professor in the Department of Medical Genetics & the…karnottNovember 19, 2025 Read More
Featured Awards Personalizing Treatment of Bladder Cancer UBC Faculty of Medicine | November 18, 2025 With support from a new $3-million Terry Fox Frontiers Program Project Grant, researchers from the…karnottNovember 18, 2025 Read More
Featured Awards Improving Outcomes for Six Childhood Sarcomas UBC Faculty of Medicine | November 17, 2025 Co-led by Dr. David Huntsman, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at UBC and distinguished…karnottNovember 17, 2025 Read More
Featured Awards BC Researchers Receive $8 Million in Federal Funding to Fast-Track Genomic Solutions Genome BC | March 23, 2026 Eight research teams in British Columbia will receive a combined $8 million in federal funding…karnottMarch 23, 2026 Read More
Featured Awards Faculty of Medicine Researchers Honoured with UBC’s 2025 Faculty Research Awards UBC Faculty of Medicine | March 20, 2026 Four Faculty of Medicine researchers have been honoured with UBC’s 2025 Faculty Research Awards. The…karnottMarch 20, 2026 Read More
Publications of the Week A Long Noncoding RNA–Based Classifier for Identifying More Aggressive Low-Grade Ta Bladder Cancer with Elevated FGFR3 Activity Phung, T., et al. | March 20, 2026 Low-grade, stage Ta (TaLG) non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) is generally nonaggressive; yet, some patients experience…karnottMarch 20, 2026 Read More