Donors vote for UBC’s Philipp Lange in grant competition
Dr. Lange (far left) and his team are exploring unique proteins in leukemia to find more effective and less harmful treatments for children.
A Japanese art leads to a futuristic innovation – brain “organoids”
Spheroids of brain cells that were skewered onto needles could provide a more authentic, 3-D model for studying gliomas.
Former Trail ICC Student Receives National Palliative Care Award
Jennifer McCormack, UBC Faculty of Medicine Vancouver Fraser Medical Program and former Trail Integrated Community Clerkship (ICC) student, has been recognized with the inaugural Undergraduate Narrative Award for Palliative Medicine by the Canadian Society of Palliative Care Physicians. The national award is designed to stimulate undergraduate medical students to think and reflect creatively about the […]
Biggest drains on Canadian productivity: back problems, mood disorders and migraines
Postdoctoral fellow Wei Zhang found 1.35 days missed on average, over a 3-month period, due to health problems.
Ben Mortenson receives the 2016 CIHR Institute of Aging Prize
Ben Mortenson, Assistant Professor in the Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy receives the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Institute of Aging New Investigator Prize of Excellence in Research on Aging. Dr. Mortenson is an experienced mixed-methods researcher with over 40 peer reviewed publications. His work is centered on four main populations: assistive […]
UBC-Vancouver Coastal Health researchers find gene linked to growth of aggressive prostate cancer
The discovery could be key to stopping a type of cancer that occurs in men undergoing androgen deprivation treatment.
UBC dominates national competition for stem cell funding
Tim Kieffer, who specializes in stem-cell therapies for diabetes, is involved in four of the projects.
Julio Montaner receives the Research Canada Leadership Award
Julio Montaner, Professor in the Department of Medicine and Head of the UBC Division of AIDS receives the Research Canada Leadership Award. Dr. Julio Montaner, who also is the Director of the UBC/Providence Health Care BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, receives this recognition for being instrumental in making global medical advancements and in ensuring […]
Training cancer survivors to support newly-diagnosed patients
Professor Arminee Kazanjian’s program trains “peer navigators” to discuss the challenges of prostate cancer.