Faculty of Medicine wins three Alzheimer’s grants
Hear James Johnson, Christian Naus and Neil Cashman describe their investigations.
The Medicine Man
How UBC put James Card on the road north, to a town that desperately needed him.
An evidence-based alternative to MoodPanda
Professional-grade tools to track moods are rare. UBC faculty members, sensing a need, went to work. The result: MoodFx.
The ever-changing nature of breast cancers
The research led by Samuel Aparicio, in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, identified which cell populations within a tumour dominate over time.
Physical Therapy’s first Northern and Rural Cohort crosses finish line
Cohort students did most of their hands-on training far from Vancouver.
Celebrating 10 years of training more doctors for B.C.
To mark a decade of distributed medical education, the Faculty of Medicine has launched a website — bcmd10.med.ubc.ca — that chronicles the program’s history, challenges and successes.
Hunting the genes that cause rare diseases
A new national network co-led by Professor of Medical Genetics Phillip Hieter received an initial grant of $2.3 million from CIHR.
The hazards of safe playgrounds
Assistant Professor Mariana Brussoni questions the “over-engineering” of today’s playgrounds.
A UBC faculty member on the front lines of the Ebola epidemic
Clinical Assistant Professor Srinivas Murthy spent five weeks in Liberia working with the WHO.
Stories of hope behind bars
Clinical Professor Ruth Martin (left) and research assistant Mo Korchinski are co-editors of a book about the resilience of women who are incarcerated in a B.C. prison.