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Three neuroscience researchers from the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health were recently appointed to the Order of Canada.
Congratulations to Drs. Adele Diamond, Janice Eng, and Judy Illes! https://bit.ly/3YyGq1J
Congratulations to Drs. Adele Diamond, Janice Eng, and Judy Illes! https://bit.ly/3YyGq1J
January 13, 2026 at 1:46 AM
Three neuroscience researchers from the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health were recently appointed to the Order of Canada.
Congratulations to Drs. Adele Diamond, Janice Eng, and Judy Illes! https://bit.ly/3YyGq1J
Congratulations to Drs. Adele Diamond, Janice Eng, and Judy Illes! https://bit.ly/3YyGq1J
🏅 From winning major grants to earning prestigious scholarships, we wrapped up 2025 with lots to celebrate!
See the scientists honoured in December, incl. UBC SBME students recognized by Polytechnique Montréal’s Order of the White Rose: Angela Wang, Ruth Yu, & Catherine Ko. https://bit.ly/45zmRKm
See the scientists honoured in December, incl. UBC SBME students recognized by Polytechnique Montréal’s Order of the White Rose: Angela Wang, Ruth Yu, & Catherine Ko. https://bit.ly/45zmRKm
January 9, 2026 at 11:32 PM
🏅 From winning major grants to earning prestigious scholarships, we wrapped up 2025 with lots to celebrate!
See the scientists honoured in December, incl. UBC SBME students recognized by Polytechnique Montréal’s Order of the White Rose: Angela Wang, Ruth Yu, & Catherine Ko. https://bit.ly/45zmRKm
See the scientists honoured in December, incl. UBC SBME students recognized by Polytechnique Montréal’s Order of the White Rose: Angela Wang, Ruth Yu, & Catherine Ko. https://bit.ly/45zmRKm
Sex differences could play a key role in diagnosing diabetic #retinopathy, according to the results of a groundbreaking study led by @vchresearch.bsky.social researcher Dr. Ipek Oruc (@ipekoruc.bsky.social).
Learn more: https://bit.ly/451hYcO
Learn more: https://bit.ly/451hYcO
January 8, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Sex differences could play a key role in diagnosing diabetic #retinopathy, according to the results of a groundbreaking study led by @vchresearch.bsky.social researcher Dr. Ipek Oruc (@ipekoruc.bsky.social).
Learn more: https://bit.ly/451hYcO
Learn more: https://bit.ly/451hYcO
A big congratulations to Marie Johns and Abishek Wadhwa from UBC! These two PhD candidates have been awarded the 2025-26 Zymeworks Fellowships in Advanced Protein Therapeutics.
🥳 We can't wait to see what strides these two researchers make during their fellowship! https://bit.ly/3NinQbw
🥳 We can't wait to see what strides these two researchers make during their fellowship! https://bit.ly/3NinQbw
January 7, 2026 at 7:39 PM
A big congratulations to Marie Johns and Abishek Wadhwa from UBC! These two PhD candidates have been awarded the 2025-26 Zymeworks Fellowships in Advanced Protein Therapeutics.
🥳 We can't wait to see what strides these two researchers make during their fellowship! https://bit.ly/3NinQbw
🥳 We can't wait to see what strides these two researchers make during their fellowship! https://bit.ly/3NinQbw
⚕️ Landmark initiatives, such as CAUSES, TIDEX, RapidOMICS, and Silent Genomes have helped position BC as a leader in #RareDiseaseGenomics. Diagnostic rates have risen from under 10% to >50%.
Learn more about the initiative from Dr. Anna Lehman and @genomebc.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/3LyX1PR
Learn more about the initiative from Dr. Anna Lehman and @genomebc.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/3LyX1PR
January 7, 2026 at 12:13 AM
⚕️ Landmark initiatives, such as CAUSES, TIDEX, RapidOMICS, and Silent Genomes have helped position BC as a leader in #RareDiseaseGenomics. Diagnostic rates have risen from under 10% to >50%.
Learn more about the initiative from Dr. Anna Lehman and @genomebc.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/3LyX1PR
Learn more about the initiative from Dr. Anna Lehman and @genomebc.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/3LyX1PR
For #UBC life sciences researchers, new facilities and equipment cannot come soon enough.
Ground has been broken on an 80,000-square-foot, 6-storey building called #TheEdge, which is set to house a nearly 25,000-sqft advanced therapeutics manufacturing facility.
🔗: https://bit.ly/3YpcfKg
Ground has been broken on an 80,000-square-foot, 6-storey building called #TheEdge, which is set to house a nearly 25,000-sqft advanced therapeutics manufacturing facility.
🔗: https://bit.ly/3YpcfKg
January 5, 2026 at 8:16 PM
For #UBC life sciences researchers, new facilities and equipment cannot come soon enough.
Ground has been broken on an 80,000-square-foot, 6-storey building called #TheEdge, which is set to house a nearly 25,000-sqft advanced therapeutics manufacturing facility.
🔗: https://bit.ly/3YpcfKg
Ground has been broken on an 80,000-square-foot, 6-storey building called #TheEdge, which is set to house a nearly 25,000-sqft advanced therapeutics manufacturing facility.
🔗: https://bit.ly/3YpcfKg
New year, new experiments… and maybe some new habits too!
Kick off 2026 with Lab Coats and Life, the podcast that helps scientists navigate the human side of research.
If your resolutions include more balance, purpose, and curiosity, this is the perfect place to start.
🎧 https://bit.ly/4pTHNnx
Kick off 2026 with Lab Coats and Life, the podcast that helps scientists navigate the human side of research.
If your resolutions include more balance, purpose, and curiosity, this is the perfect place to start.
🎧 https://bit.ly/4pTHNnx
January 2, 2026 at 6:24 PM
New year, new experiments… and maybe some new habits too!
Kick off 2026 with Lab Coats and Life, the podcast that helps scientists navigate the human side of research.
If your resolutions include more balance, purpose, and curiosity, this is the perfect place to start.
🎧 https://bit.ly/4pTHNnx
Kick off 2026 with Lab Coats and Life, the podcast that helps scientists navigate the human side of research.
If your resolutions include more balance, purpose, and curiosity, this is the perfect place to start.
🎧 https://bit.ly/4pTHNnx
🔭 As the calendar flips, we celebrate the constant in every scientific equation: our shared drive to explore the unknown.
🥂 Happy New Year to all who question, experiment, build, analyze, innovate, communicate, and imagine.
🥂 Happy New Year to all who question, experiment, build, analyze, innovate, communicate, and imagine.
January 1, 2026 at 6:01 PM
🔭 As the calendar flips, we celebrate the constant in every scientific equation: our shared drive to explore the unknown.
🥂 Happy New Year to all who question, experiment, build, analyze, innovate, communicate, and imagine.
🥂 Happy New Year to all who question, experiment, build, analyze, innovate, communicate, and imagine.
Ready for the science highlight reel of the year? 🤓 🧪
Welcome to the Science in Vancouver Top 5 Post Countdown, showcasing the most community-loved posts of 2025. Get ready for jaw-dropping discoveries and the people who made it all possible!
Check back tomorrow for #5...
Welcome to the Science in Vancouver Top 5 Post Countdown, showcasing the most community-loved posts of 2025. Get ready for jaw-dropping discoveries and the people who made it all possible!
Check back tomorrow for #5...
December 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Ready for the science highlight reel of the year? 🤓 🧪
Welcome to the Science in Vancouver Top 5 Post Countdown, showcasing the most community-loved posts of 2025. Get ready for jaw-dropping discoveries and the people who made it all possible!
Check back tomorrow for #5...
Welcome to the Science in Vancouver Top 5 Post Countdown, showcasing the most community-loved posts of 2025. Get ready for jaw-dropping discoveries and the people who made it all possible!
Check back tomorrow for #5...
❄️☃️ Looking for something insightful to listen to over the holidays? Explore the @immunologypodcast.com!
Whether you're traveling or unwinding at home, it’s the ideal companion for curious minds.
🎧 https://bit.ly/47nGZAG
Whether you're traveling or unwinding at home, it’s the ideal companion for curious minds.
🎧 https://bit.ly/47nGZAG
December 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
❄️☃️ Looking for something insightful to listen to over the holidays? Explore the @immunologypodcast.com!
Whether you're traveling or unwinding at home, it’s the ideal companion for curious minds.
🎧 https://bit.ly/47nGZAG
Whether you're traveling or unwinding at home, it’s the ideal companion for curious minds.
🎧 https://bit.ly/47nGZAG
Our website is taking a short holiday break while we recharge for 2026. But don’t worry, the science doesn’t stop!
Keep an eye on our socials over the holidays for community highlights, Top 5 countdowns, and plenty of good science stories to carry you into the new year.
See you in January! ❄️🔬
Keep an eye on our socials over the holidays for community highlights, Top 5 countdowns, and plenty of good science stories to carry you into the new year.
See you in January! ❄️🔬
December 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Our website is taking a short holiday break while we recharge for 2026. But don’t worry, the science doesn’t stop!
Keep an eye on our socials over the holidays for community highlights, Top 5 countdowns, and plenty of good science stories to carry you into the new year.
See you in January! ❄️🔬
Keep an eye on our socials over the holidays for community highlights, Top 5 countdowns, and plenty of good science stories to carry you into the new year.
See you in January! ❄️🔬
As genetic testing becomes part of health care, one question remains: who helps patients make sense of it all?
Drs. Alison Elliott & @j9austin.bsky.social at @bcchresearch.bsky.social & UBC are a part of the GenCOUNSEL project changing how we experience #GeneticCounselling: https://bit.ly/48WtfMO
Drs. Alison Elliott & @j9austin.bsky.social at @bcchresearch.bsky.social & UBC are a part of the GenCOUNSEL project changing how we experience #GeneticCounselling: https://bit.ly/48WtfMO
December 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
As genetic testing becomes part of health care, one question remains: who helps patients make sense of it all?
Drs. Alison Elliott & @j9austin.bsky.social at @bcchresearch.bsky.social & UBC are a part of the GenCOUNSEL project changing how we experience #GeneticCounselling: https://bit.ly/48WtfMO
Drs. Alison Elliott & @j9austin.bsky.social at @bcchresearch.bsky.social & UBC are a part of the GenCOUNSEL project changing how we experience #GeneticCounselling: https://bit.ly/48WtfMO
In a new study published in @natcomms.nature.com, a University of British Columbia team including Drs. Lesley Hill and Michael Underhill discovered that synovial sarcoma develops when a rare subset of fibroblasts become cancerous.
📰 https://bit.ly/48GV7Wd
🧪 https://go.nature.com/48nvSbu
📰 https://bit.ly/48GV7Wd
🧪 https://go.nature.com/48nvSbu
December 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
In a new study published in @natcomms.nature.com, a University of British Columbia team including Drs. Lesley Hill and Michael Underhill discovered that synovial sarcoma develops when a rare subset of fibroblasts become cancerous.
📰 https://bit.ly/48GV7Wd
🧪 https://go.nature.com/48nvSbu
📰 https://bit.ly/48GV7Wd
🧪 https://go.nature.com/48nvSbu
Three researchers have received funding through the UBC-BC Cancer Academic Enhancement Fund Competition 2025.
🪩 We're sending a huge congratulations to Drs. Irene Yu, Maria Ho, and Guliz Ozgun! https://bit.ly/48Ixv3D
🪩 We're sending a huge congratulations to Drs. Irene Yu, Maria Ho, and Guliz Ozgun! https://bit.ly/48Ixv3D
December 17, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Three researchers have received funding through the UBC-BC Cancer Academic Enhancement Fund Competition 2025.
🪩 We're sending a huge congratulations to Drs. Irene Yu, Maria Ho, and Guliz Ozgun! https://bit.ly/48Ixv3D
🪩 We're sending a huge congratulations to Drs. Irene Yu, Maria Ho, and Guliz Ozgun! https://bit.ly/48Ixv3D
Research but make it ✨art✨
Showcase your research and submit an image to NSERC’s Science Exposed contest. You could win $2,000 and share your scientific story with Canada!
Learn more and enter by Feb. 9, 2026: https://bit.ly/4pGQ4v7
Showcase your research and submit an image to NSERC’s Science Exposed contest. You could win $2,000 and share your scientific story with Canada!
Learn more and enter by Feb. 9, 2026: https://bit.ly/4pGQ4v7
December 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Research but make it ✨art✨
Showcase your research and submit an image to NSERC’s Science Exposed contest. You could win $2,000 and share your scientific story with Canada!
Learn more and enter by Feb. 9, 2026: https://bit.ly/4pGQ4v7
Showcase your research and submit an image to NSERC’s Science Exposed contest. You could win $2,000 and share your scientific story with Canada!
Learn more and enter by Feb. 9, 2026: https://bit.ly/4pGQ4v7
Why does menopause vary so much from person to person?
The newest episode of the Nice Genes! Podcast explores "Menopause Mysteries", looking at the genetics behind symptoms, risks, and treatment responses, and see how personalized care could shape the future.
🔊 Listen: https://bit.ly/48Ww28w
The newest episode of the Nice Genes! Podcast explores "Menopause Mysteries", looking at the genetics behind symptoms, risks, and treatment responses, and see how personalized care could shape the future.
🔊 Listen: https://bit.ly/48Ww28w
December 15, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Why does menopause vary so much from person to person?
The newest episode of the Nice Genes! Podcast explores "Menopause Mysteries", looking at the genetics behind symptoms, risks, and treatment responses, and see how personalized care could shape the future.
🔊 Listen: https://bit.ly/48Ww28w
The newest episode of the Nice Genes! Podcast explores "Menopause Mysteries", looking at the genetics behind symptoms, risks, and treatment responses, and see how personalized care could shape the future.
🔊 Listen: https://bit.ly/48Ww28w
Polytechnique Montréal has awarded 14 scholarships in the 11th edition of the Order of the White Rose, established in 2014 to pay tribute to the 14 women killed on December 6, 1989.
Those awarded include three UBC SBME students: Angela Wang, Ruth Yu, and Catherine Ko.
🌹 https://bit.ly/3XMMbbJ
Those awarded include three UBC SBME students: Angela Wang, Ruth Yu, and Catherine Ko.
🌹 https://bit.ly/3XMMbbJ
December 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Polytechnique Montréal has awarded 14 scholarships in the 11th edition of the Order of the White Rose, established in 2014 to pay tribute to the 14 women killed on December 6, 1989.
Those awarded include three UBC SBME students: Angela Wang, Ruth Yu, and Catherine Ko.
🌹 https://bit.ly/3XMMbbJ
Those awarded include three UBC SBME students: Angela Wang, Ruth Yu, and Catherine Ko.
🌹 https://bit.ly/3XMMbbJ
As November rains arrived, so did big wins for Greater Vancouver’s scientific community!
Discover all the award winners like Dr. Lalitha Raman-Wilms, who received the Distinguished Leadership Award from the India Canada Culture and Heritage Association! 👉 https://bit.ly/3XPPI92
Discover all the award winners like Dr. Lalitha Raman-Wilms, who received the Distinguished Leadership Award from the India Canada Culture and Heritage Association! 👉 https://bit.ly/3XPPI92
December 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
As November rains arrived, so did big wins for Greater Vancouver’s scientific community!
Discover all the award winners like Dr. Lalitha Raman-Wilms, who received the Distinguished Leadership Award from the India Canada Culture and Heritage Association! 👉 https://bit.ly/3XPPI92
Discover all the award winners like Dr. Lalitha Raman-Wilms, who received the Distinguished Leadership Award from the India Canada Culture and Heritage Association! 👉 https://bit.ly/3XPPI92
A new Nature Communications study by Dr. Filip Van Petegem's lab at @ubcmedicine.bsky.social has revealed how popular cholesterol-lowering drugs can trigger muscle damage. 💪
See how their work could pave the way for a new generation of statins without these side effects: https://bit.ly/4asaEuv
See how their work could pave the way for a new generation of statins without these side effects: https://bit.ly/4asaEuv
December 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
A new Nature Communications study by Dr. Filip Van Petegem's lab at @ubcmedicine.bsky.social has revealed how popular cholesterol-lowering drugs can trigger muscle damage. 💪
See how their work could pave the way for a new generation of statins without these side effects: https://bit.ly/4asaEuv
See how their work could pave the way for a new generation of statins without these side effects: https://bit.ly/4asaEuv
🏆 @sfuscience.bsky.social has announced the recipients of their 2025 awards! Check out the winners of the...
🧪 Research Awards: https://bit.ly/491neiU
🍎 Excellence in Teaching Awards: https://bit.ly/4aEfJzC
🧪 Research Awards: https://bit.ly/491neiU
🍎 Excellence in Teaching Awards: https://bit.ly/4aEfJzC
December 9, 2025 at 11:45 PM
🏆 @sfuscience.bsky.social has announced the recipients of their 2025 awards! Check out the winners of the...
🧪 Research Awards: https://bit.ly/491neiU
🍎 Excellence in Teaching Awards: https://bit.ly/4aEfJzC
🧪 Research Awards: https://bit.ly/491neiU
🍎 Excellence in Teaching Awards: https://bit.ly/4aEfJzC
A new research effort at UBC, led by Dr. Teresa Tsang (@t-tsang.bsky.social), unites three powerful data streams that are rarely combined at the same time in clinical practice: heart ultrasound imaging, blood-based biomarkers, and genetic information. 🫀
Learn more: https://bit.ly/3KNrYzq
Learn more: https://bit.ly/3KNrYzq
December 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
A new research effort at UBC, led by Dr. Teresa Tsang (@t-tsang.bsky.social), unites three powerful data streams that are rarely combined at the same time in clinical practice: heart ultrasound imaging, blood-based biomarkers, and genetic information. 🫀
Learn more: https://bit.ly/3KNrYzq
Learn more: https://bit.ly/3KNrYzq
🎆 Ten researchers have been selected as UBC's 2025 Distinguished University Scholars!
Congratulations to all the researchers, including life science researchers Drs. Lori Brotto, Kiran Soma, Terrance Snutch, and Peter Black: https://bit.ly/3Mj99EH
Congratulations to all the researchers, including life science researchers Drs. Lori Brotto, Kiran Soma, Terrance Snutch, and Peter Black: https://bit.ly/3Mj99EH
December 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
🎆 Ten researchers have been selected as UBC's 2025 Distinguished University Scholars!
Congratulations to all the researchers, including life science researchers Drs. Lori Brotto, Kiran Soma, Terrance Snutch, and Peter Black: https://bit.ly/3Mj99EH
Congratulations to all the researchers, including life science researchers Drs. Lori Brotto, Kiran Soma, Terrance Snutch, and Peter Black: https://bit.ly/3Mj99EH
A UBC spin-off headed by Drs. Veronique Lecault and Carl Hansen is helping to bring BC's life science economy forward.
Learn how AbCellera got started in #AntibodyTherapies, growing from six scientists to 600: https://bit.ly/4rnwMvQ
#VancouverBiotech
Learn how AbCellera got started in #AntibodyTherapies, growing from six scientists to 600: https://bit.ly/4rnwMvQ
#VancouverBiotech
December 4, 2025 at 4:49 PM
A UBC spin-off headed by Drs. Veronique Lecault and Carl Hansen is helping to bring BC's life science economy forward.
Learn how AbCellera got started in #AntibodyTherapies, growing from six scientists to 600: https://bit.ly/4rnwMvQ
#VancouverBiotech
Learn how AbCellera got started in #AntibodyTherapies, growing from six scientists to 600: https://bit.ly/4rnwMvQ
#VancouverBiotech
Clostridioides difficile is one of the most common causes of infectious diarrhea in hospitals.
🧬 Drs. Will Hsiao, Amy Lee, Kevin Afra, & Michael Trimble at @fraserhealth.ca & @sfu-fhs.bsky.social are analyzing #Cdifficile's genetic makeup to better understand the infection: https://bit.ly/4os2sxy
🧬 Drs. Will Hsiao, Amy Lee, Kevin Afra, & Michael Trimble at @fraserhealth.ca & @sfu-fhs.bsky.social are analyzing #Cdifficile's genetic makeup to better understand the infection: https://bit.ly/4os2sxy
December 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Clostridioides difficile is one of the most common causes of infectious diarrhea in hospitals.
🧬 Drs. Will Hsiao, Amy Lee, Kevin Afra, & Michael Trimble at @fraserhealth.ca & @sfu-fhs.bsky.social are analyzing #Cdifficile's genetic makeup to better understand the infection: https://bit.ly/4os2sxy
🧬 Drs. Will Hsiao, Amy Lee, Kevin Afra, & Michael Trimble at @fraserhealth.ca & @sfu-fhs.bsky.social are analyzing #Cdifficile's genetic makeup to better understand the infection: https://bit.ly/4os2sxy
Therapies targeting mutant huntingtin (mHTT) reduction in the brain hold promise as disease-modifying treatments for #HuntingtonDisease.
🔎 Dr. Nicholas Caron and the Hayden lab at UBC evaluated candidate molecular and imaging biomarkers after mHTT reduction in mice: https://bit.ly/48cILVx
🔎 Dr. Nicholas Caron and the Hayden lab at UBC evaluated candidate molecular and imaging biomarkers after mHTT reduction in mice: https://bit.ly/48cILVx
December 2, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Therapies targeting mutant huntingtin (mHTT) reduction in the brain hold promise as disease-modifying treatments for #HuntingtonDisease.
🔎 Dr. Nicholas Caron and the Hayden lab at UBC evaluated candidate molecular and imaging biomarkers after mHTT reduction in mice: https://bit.ly/48cILVx
🔎 Dr. Nicholas Caron and the Hayden lab at UBC evaluated candidate molecular and imaging biomarkers after mHTT reduction in mice: https://bit.ly/48cILVx