AwardsFeatured Awards Neil Mackenzie Mentorship Excellence Award Nominees 2022: CBR Members Celebrated for Dedication to Mentorship UBC Centre for Blood Research | August 22, 2022 Mentorship is an integral part of the CBR and the CBR Summer Studentship Program. Each year,…pthomsonAugust 22, 2022 Read More
Local News Synergy Program Student Profile: Jessica Jung Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health | August 22, 2022 Jessica Jung is a fourth-year UBC School of Biomedical Engineering student who is working with…pthomsonAugust 22, 2022 Read More
Local News UBC Researchers Discover ‘Weak Spot’ across Major COVID-19 Variants UBC Faculty of Medicine | August 19, 2022 Researchers at the University of British Columbia have discovered a key vulnerability across all major…pthomsonAugust 19, 2022 Read More
Publications of the Week SOX9 Reprograms Endothelial Cells by Altering the Chromatin Landscape Fuglerud, B. M., et al. | August 19, 2022 The transcription factor SOX9 is activated at the onset of endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EndMT) during embryonic…pthomsonAugust 19, 2022 Read More
Local News Canada’s Digital Technology Supercluster Announces the First Cohort of Projects Digital Supercluster | March 8, 2019 Today, Canada’s Digital Technology Supercluster announced its first cohort of projects. The projects total $40…sciencecityMarch 8, 2019 Read More
Local News STEMCELL Technologies Wins Deloitte Best Managed Companies Award STEMCELL Technologies | March 7, 2019 STEMCELL Technologies is proud to announce that the company has been selected as a winner of Canada’s…sciencecityMarch 7, 2019 Read More
Local News B.C. Cancer Agency President Resigns, Cutting Short First Term in Office Vancouver Sun | March 7, 2019 Malcolm Moore will leave his post as president of the B.C. Cancer agency next month,…sciencecityMarch 7, 2019 Read More
Local News Making O American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Today | March 6, 2019 The blood industry is in a bind. Over the past decade, the amount of blood…sciencecityMarch 6, 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