A nuclear medicine meltdown averted
A five-year effort by UBC and TRIUMF demonstrates that cyclotrons can meet Canada’s urgent need for medical isotopes.
Investigations + breakthroughs
The key to sun-induced skin aging; the epigenetics effects of diesel exhaust; a maternal care provider up-ends her own beliefs about hypertension treatment.
Meet the next dean
Dermot Kelleher becomes Dean of the Faculty of Medicine on Sept. 1. Learn more about him in this Q&A.
A new home for sports medicine, with help from a pioneering physician
Chan Gunn’s unconventional approach to treating neuropathic pain gained adherents at UBC’s sports medicine clinic. His latest gift will provide a new home for that clinic.
A surge of research into Parkinson’s disease
Donations channeled through the Pacific Parkinson’s Research Institute are supporting, among other projects, a study of exercise’s on people with the disease.
Aboriginal health education hits a milestone, and gains momentum
The Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Health receives two major gifts, just as the Faculty of Medicine hits its target for graduating Aboriginal MD students.
Personalized prescriptions
Martin Dawes, Head of the Department of Family Practice, leads an effort to bring genomics to primary care.
Gender differences play key role in supporting healthy diets for seniors
Emily Rugel, PhD candidate, SPPH has found that strategies to support healthier diets among seniors needs to taken into account gender differences.
Record number of UBC medical residents start training in B.C.
This summer, UBC’s Faculty of Medicine welcomes 338 new residents — the largest number of entry-level postgraduate trainees in the history of B.C.
Using DNA to track an unwelcome visitor — measles
UBC scientists traced 82 cases of measles in B.C. to two visitors to Vancouver during the 2010 Winter Olympic games.