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Doctoral candidate Mohammad Karamouzian awarded the 2018 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Doctoral Scholarship
June 21, 2018UBC PhD candidate in the School of Population and Public Health, Mohammad Karamouzian, is one of two UBC recipients. Read More >

Nadine Caron appointed to national pharmacare advisory council
June 21, 2018The federal government appointment will focus on the Implementation of National Pharmacare. Read More >

Continuing a legacy through medicine
June 21, 2018Brothers Keegan, Miles, and Noah Marchand are aiming to make a difference in the lives of other Indigenous people. Read More >

Twelve Faculty Members receive MSFHR Scholar Awards
June 18, 2018The awards support early career health researchers who are building leading-edge health research programs, training junior scientists and expanding their potential to make significant contributions to their field. Read More >

Two discoveries offer new targets for future Alzheimer’s treatments
June 18, 2018The studies, published this spring in Molecular Psychiatry, hint at more precise strategies for preventing the build-up of the toxic protein, amyloid beta. Read More >

Dr. Christine Loock and Dr. Gina Ogilvie recipients of 2018 YWCA Women of Distinction Awards
June 18, 2018The awards honours individuals whose outstanding activities and achievements contribute to the well-being and future of our community. Read More >

Obstetric trauma rates among forceps deliveries on the rise in Canada
June 17, 2018The risks could be related to a decline in familiarity with the procedure. Read More >

A decades-long science experiment, with 300,000 volunteers
June 12, 2018The Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow, co-led by UBC's Trevor Dummer, is amassing a huge data set in the search for disease-causing patterns. Read More >

Lindsay Hedden receives the CIHR-IHSPR Rising Star Award
May 30, 2018Lindsay Hedden, a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Population and Public Health, has received this year’s Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)'s Institute of Health Services and Policy Research (IHSPR) Rising Star Award, for her work on health services delivery and workforce issues in primary healthcare. Read More >

Will this be on the test? Even if not, students might remember it
May 28, 2018A UBC experiment involving pharmacy students showed that teachers don’t have to test everything they want their students to remember. Read More >