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Faculty of Medicine wins large share of Michael Smith Career Investigator Awards
By bkladko | July 6, 2012
The Faculty of Medicine has received 11 of the 22 Career Investigator Salary Awards from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR). The awardees are: Francis Lynn, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery: Uncovering Novel Regulators of Beta Cell Genesis, Growth and Function Thibault Mayor, Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology: Characterization of the […]
Three new appointments to Faculty's education portfolio
By bkladko | June 27, 2012
Paul Winwood becomes the Faculty’s new Regional Associate Dean, Northern B.C. and UNBC’s Vice Provost Medicine July 1.
Parkinson's gene identified with help of Mennonite family
By bkladko | June 27, 2012
Medical Genetics Professor Matthew Farrer says the discovery helps unify past genetic discoveries about the disease.
Researchers show that stem cells can beat back diabetes
By bkladko | June 27, 2012
Professor Tim Kieffer used human stem cell transplants to restore self-regulating insulin production in mice.
Smartphone app helps B.C. track ovarian cancer outcomes
By bkladko | June 25, 2012
A locally-created new smartphone app is enabling ovarian cancer surgeons in B.C. to record details directly from the surgical suite to the provincial database where ovarian cancer tumour information is stored, investigated and tracked. The app, developed by the Cheryl Brown Ovarian Cancer Outcomes unit, a division of the Ovarian Cancer Research Program (OvCaRe), prompts […]
A modicum of solace for MS patients — lower cancer risk
By bkladko | June 21, 2012
Elaine Kingwell, a postdoctoral fellow in the Brain Research Centre, led the study.
Older women more prone to workplace injuries: UBC study
By Patricia Angel | June 20, 2012
Although the rate of workplace injuries in Canada has been declining over the past two decades, some workers – older women in health care, for example – are much more vulnerable to serious injuries, researchers at the University of British Columbia have found. Women 55 to 64 years old are three times more likely to […]
New facility brings brain development into sharper focus
By bkladko | June 14, 2012
The 3-Tesla MRI scanner is only the second of its kind in Canada dedicated to pediatric research.
CMMT celebrates its 15th anniversary
By Patricia Angel | June 13, 2012
CMMT’s 15th Anniversary from CMMT on Vimeo. Members of the medical research community gathered together on June 5 to celebrate the Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics’ 15th anniversary. More than 260 supporters from government, education, health care, and life sciences communities came out for an evening of celebration. Charles Sabine, a UK journalist served […]
Three faculty members win Awards of Excellence from B.C. College
By bkladko | June 6, 2012
Three faculty members have received Awards of Excellence in Medical Practice from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia: Clive P. Duncan, Professor in the Department of Orthopaedics, is a medical graduate of Dublin University (1968). After two years of postgraduate training in orthopedics in the United Kingdom, he moved to Canada as a resident and […]