Featured Awards Graduate Students Awarded 2025 Canada Graduate Scholarships Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health | October 15, 2026 Congratulations to our current Graduate Program in Neuroscience (GPN) students who have received awards through…karnottOctober 15, 2026 Read More
Local News Putting a Spotlight on Malnutrition in Canada: Alumni Catch-up With Dr. Paula Littlejohn UBC Michael Smith Laboratories | October 15, 2026 Dr. Paula Littlejohn is a former member of the lab of Dr. Brett Finlay (MSL…karnottOctober 15, 2026 Read More
Local News Finding New Treatment Targets for Childhood Cancers: Q&A With Dr. Poul Sorensen BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute | October 14, 2026 For children and adolescents diagnosed with cancer, treatment can involve surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. Each…karnottOctober 14, 2026 Read More
Local News Even Modest Post-Infection Complications Can Make Expanded Vaccine Coverage Cost Effective: New Modelling UBC Science | October 14, 2026 New modelling led by interdisciplinary scientists at the University of British Columbia (UBC) could help…karnottOctober 14, 2026 Read More
Featured Awards Dr. Khaled Abdelrahman Receives Funding to Investigate Relationship Between Blood Flow and Alzheimer’s Disease Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health | October 13, 2026 Congratulations to Dr. Khaled Abdelrahman on receiving funding from the Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation of…karnottOctober 13, 2026 Read More
Local News Three New BC Projects Strengthen the Tools Behind Cancer Research Genome BC | October 13, 2026 Cancer remains a leading cause of death worldwide and the tools researchers rely on to…karnottOctober 13, 2026 Read More
Local News Innovation Fund Spotlight: Finding the Precise Moment When Immune Cells Start Causing Disease Benaroya Research Institute | October 13, 2026 Autoimmune diseases happen when immune cells, which are supposed to protect you from germs, mistakenly…karnottOctober 13, 2026 Read More
Publications of the Week CSF1R+ Macrophages and Osteoclasts Are Essential for Limb Bone Development During Embryogenesis Ma, F., et al. | October 12, 2026 Colony-stimulating factor-1 receptor (CSF1R) provides essential signals for macrophage and osteoclast proliferation, differentiation, and survival,…karnottOctober 12, 2026 Read More
Local News From Motor Units to Robotics: A PhD Opportunity in the Neural Control of Human Balance UBC Balance and Falls Research Centre | October 9, 2026 How does the brain coordinate motor variability to prevent a fall? This is the central…karnottOctober 9, 2026 Read More
Local News Canada’s First Human Bird Flu Case Offers New Clues for Monitoring Pandemic Threats UBC News | October 9, 2026 When a B.C. teenager became critically ill with H5N1 avian influenza in November 2024, Canada’s…karnottOctober 9, 2026 Read More