Christian Steidl named member of the RSC College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists
Christian Steidl, Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, is one of six UBC faculty members who have been named a member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. Those named to the College represent the emerging generation of scholarly, scientific and artistic leadership in Canada. […]
Victoria Cook honoured with the Kristin Sivertz Resident Leadership Award
Victoria Cook, a pediatric clinical immunology and allergy fellow at the Faculty of Medicine, has been selected as one of two recipients of the 2017 Kristin Sivertz Resident Leadership Award. This award was established to recognize residents who exemplify leadership within Canadian specialty education and encourage the development of future leaders in medicine. Dr. Cook […]
UBC recognizes three of Canada’s top health scientists
Stanley Nattel, Ian Mackenzie and Eduardo Franco are being honoured for their accomplishments in heart health, brain health and cancer.
Drawing inspiration from research
Fourth-year medical student Rouzbeh Ghadiry-Tavi talks about what sparked his interest in the Summer Student Research Program.
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Experimental Medicine
UBC erases boundaries between engineering and health
The deans of Medicine and Applied Science, writing in the Vancouver Sun, explain why UBC created a School of Biomedical Engineering.
Two Faculty of Medicine projects receive CFI grants
Faculty of Medicine researchers Leonard Foster and Natalie Strynadka are among fifteen UBC researchers who received a combined $3.9 million in funding for their research projects this week from the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s John R. Evans Leaders Fund. The John R. Evans Leaders Fund helps universities attract and retain researchers by providing funding for […]
Every person counts in effort to reduce HIV infection
A recent study from Ashleigh Rich, PhD student in SPPH reveals a much better understanding of the scope of HIV among the MSM at-risk population.
Five faculty members receive latest round of CIHR Foundation Grants
The Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) has announced its latest Foundation Grants and five members of the Faculty of Medicine are among the awardees. A total of nine researchers from UBC attracted a combined $23.4m. CIHR Foundation Grant Recipients: The five UBC Faculty of Medicine recipients and their project titles are: