New Graduate Award: Ronnie Miller Graduate Scholarship in Personalized Medicine
Ronnie Miller Graduate Scholarship in Personalized Medicine This award arises from a new joint initiative of Rx&D and Hoffman-LaRoche Canada to provide $50,000 over 5 years to support a graduate student studying personalized medicine in the Department of Biochemistry at UBC. The award is named to honour former Board Chairman, M. Ronnie Miller, to recognize […] Read More
Filip Van Petegem – Awarded Distinguished Achievement Award for 2012
Distinguished Achievement Awards: Award for Excellence in Basic Science Research The Faculty of Medicine recognizes individuals whose performance during an assessment period was particularly meritorious. This award was based on achievements made during the calendar year January 1 – December 31, 2012. Only twelve Distinguished Achievement Awards are given out each year. Read More
Dr. Robert Molday – Distinguished Achievement Awards for 2012
Distinguished Achievement Awards: Award for Overall Excellence to a Senior Faculty The Faculty of Medicine recognizes individuals whose performance during an assessment period was particularly meritorious. This award was based on achievements made during the calendar year January 1 – December 31, 2012. Only twelve Distinguished Achievement Awards are given out each year. Read More
Adrienne Cheung – Completed MSc thesis
Congratulations Adrienne! She successfully defend her MSc thesis, “Structural and Functional Studies on GlcNAc-modified Tau”. Adrienne studied in Dr. Lawrence McIntosh’s lab. Read More
Horace Wei Completed MSc Thesis
Congratulations Horace! He successfully defend his MSc thesis “Identifying Novel Regulators of Rhol signaling in Saccharomyes cerevisiae”. Horace studied in Dr. Elizabeth Conibear’s lab. Read More
Dr. Christian Kastrup – Co-Invents New Adhesive Gel
Dr. Christian Kastrup, Assistant Professor co-invents a new gel, which can be used on weakened blood vessels to prevent rupturing. Read more Read More
Paolo Lobo completed MSc thesis
Congratulations Paolo for completing the MSc program! The title of his thesis is “Ligand and Modulator Binding in the Skeletal Muscle Ryanodine Receptor”. Paolo studied in Filip van Petegem’s lab. Read More
Dr. Christian Kastrup – Awarded Grand Challenge Grant
Christian Kastrup has won a grant from Grand Challenges Canada to develop a low-cost, easily-administered treatment for post-partum bleeding for use in low-income countries. The nano sized self-propelling coagulant particles can be used for other bleeding trauma. Read more Read More
Michael Kobor: “Genes and Immune System Shaped by Childhood Poverty, Stress”
Michael Kobor looks at how experiences beginning before birth and in the years after can affect the course of a person’s life. His findings were recently published in a special volume of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Read more Read More
Photo Contest Winners
Dr. LeAnn Howe is proud to announce the winners of the “Website Revamp Photo Contest”: Dr. Franck Duong (for Duong Lab, a 3D clay model of a nanodisc) Matt Dahabieh (phto map of HIV integration sites in infected cultured T cells) Marta Guarna (collecting bee sampes for proteometics). Each received a $50 gift card from UBC. […] Read More