| Name | Research Categories | keywords | Grad Committee Service? | Interested in Research Collab? | Collaborative Resources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aparicio Samuel Professor |
| functional genomics, genomic instability | Yes | Yes |
Biobanks Availability:
Yes
List of Biobanks:
Breast cancer patient derived xenografts and single cell data from breast cancers
Equipment Availability:
No
|
| Bally Marcel Professor |
| academic IP and commercialization, biochemistry, cancer, drug delivery, drug development, good laboratory practices, good manufacturing practices, lipid nanoparticles, lipid-based formulations, liposomes | Yes | Yes |
Biobanks Availability:
No
Details on Biobanks:
My lab has no biobanks, but I would say that BCCRI has plans and perhaps you should check with Stephen Chia and Francois Benard. There are many Biobanks at the moment, but the hope is to develop a consolidated system that will have some open access. There are different tumor groups that already have biobanks (e.g. Breast, Ovarian, Prostate, etc.) But these are managed by PIs and not as a central resource.
Equipment Availability:
No
|
| Bashashati Ali Assistant Professor |
| artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, cancer, computational genomics, computational pathology, machine learning | Yes | Yes |
Biobanks Availability:
Yes
List of Biobanks:
digitized pathology slides for AI
Equipment Availability:
No
|
| Bennewith Kevin Professor |
| hypoxia, metastasis, tumour immunology, tumour microenvironment | Yes | Yes |
Biobanks Availability:
No
Equipment Availability:
No
|
| Churg Andrew Professor |
| cardiopulmonary, interstitial lung disease diagnosis, pathologic investigation of mesothelioma diagnosis | No | Yes |
Biobanks Availability:
Yes
List of Biobanks:
lung tissue biobank
Equipment Availability:
No
|
| Cote Helene Professor |
| aging, antiretroviral drug toxicity, chronic latent viruses, cohort studies, community-engaged research, HIV, HIV pregnancy, markers of biological aging, womens health | Yes | Yes |
Biobanks Availability:
Yes
List of Biobanks:
CARMA and BCC3 biobanks
Details on Biobanks:
I have the CARMA and BCC3 biobanks which contains whole blood, plasma, serum, and limited live PBMCs collected from people living with HIV (majority women) and HIV-negative controls ≥16y. However, I have co-PIs and we have a process to access these specimens. Further, a third or so of samples are from Indigenous persons, and even though biobanked, these would not be accessible for genetic/genomic studies, and would undergo a more stringent review process.
Equipment Availability:
Yes
Details on Equipment:
LightCycler 480
|
| Enfield Katey Assistant Professor |
| B cells, bioinformatics, cancer genomics, cancer immunology, data integration, lung cancer, spatial profiling techniques, tumour microenvironment | Yes | Yes |
Biobanks Availability:
No
Equipment Availability:
No
|
| Gao Zu-hua Professor |
| biomedical engineering, esophageal cancer, Gastrointestinal cancer, liver cancer, oral cancer, pancreatic cancer | Yes | Yes |
Biobanks Availability:
No
Equipment Availability:
Yes
Details on Equipment:
I have equipment related to hydrogel production
|
| Granville David Professor |
| aging, autoimmune disease, dermatology, drug discovery, extracellular matrix, inflammation, proteases, Translational research, vascular dysfunction, wound healing | Yes | Yes |
Biobanks Availability:
No
Equipment Availability:
No
|
| Guillaud Martial Assistant Professor |
| breast cancer, Cancer biomarkers, cervical cancer, digital pathology, epithelial pre-cancers, lung cancer, machine learning, oral cancer, prosttae cancer, Spatial | Yes | Yes |
Biobanks Availability:
No
Equipment Availability:
Yes
Details on Equipment:
whole slide scanner; multiplex stainer lunaphore
|
| Hirsch-Reinshagen Veronica Assistant Professor |
| digital spatial profiling of proteins, histology, Human neuropathology, immunohistochemistry, neuropathology of neurointensive care, neuropsychiatric disorders, traumatic spinal cord injury | Yes | Yes |
Biobanks Availability:
Yes
List of Biobanks:
1. International Spinal Cord Injury Biobank 2. Neurocritical Care Brain Autopsy Material
Details on Biobanks:
International Spinal Cord Injury Biobank and neurocritical care brain autopsy material. Latter only for UBC researchers. Both currently have FFPE material only.
Equipment Availability:
No
|
| Huntsman David Professor |
| gynecologic cancer, Molecular pathology, ovarian cancer, rare cancers | Yes | Yes |
Biobanks Availability:
Yes
Equipment Availability:
No
Comments on Potential Collaborations:
MAPcore: molecular pathology core laboratory at the VGH is open for collaboration or contract research Ovcare and the Gynecologic Cancer Initiative share resources with any interested in studying such cancers
|
| Karsan Ali Professor |
| human marrow organoid models, leukemia, microRNA, myeloid cancer, noncoding RNA, post-translational modification of oncogenes and tumour suppressor genes, single cell sequencing, therapy resistance, xenotransplantation of patient-derived leukemias | Yes | Yes |
Biobanks Availability:
No
Details on Biobanks:
Accèss to normal and malignant hematological samples, but do not personally hold the REB for these
Equipment Availability:
Yes
Details on Equipment:
Currently setting up NucleoCounter NC-3000™ Advanced Image Cytometer
|
| Kizhakkedathu Jay Professor |
| antithrombotic agents, biomaterials, blood, blood coagulation, immunomodulation, infection resistant materials, therapeutics, transplantation | Yes | Yes |
Biobanks Availability:
No
Equipment Availability:
Yes
Details on Equipment:
We have a suite for molecular characterization of macromolecules (molecular weight, size, charge, etc.). We also have a suite for surface characterization (Atomic Force Microscopy, ATR-FTIR, Ellipsometry, QCM, etc.). Additionally, we have capabilities to assist with blood and blood cell analyses.
|
| Klein Geltink Ramon Assistant Professor |
| cell intrinsic metabolism, immunometabolism, immunotherapy of cancer, mitochondrial metabolism, nutrient allocation, nutrient sensing, tumour immunology | Yes | Yes |
Biobanks Availability:
No
Equipment Availability:
No
|
| Krajden Mel Professor |
| antiviral treatment monitoring, clinical trials, epidemiological surveillance, hepatitis, infectious diseases research, molecular diagnostics for viral infections, phylogenetics, virus-host interaction | No | Yes |
Biobanks Availability:
No
Details on Biobanks:
Public health lab is not a biobank but it collects, tests and retains certain samples under a public health mandate. The lab has an array of testing capacities including instruments for high throughput next generation sequence and specialized serologies but this would require one-to-one consultation for sharing/collaboration.
Equipment Availability:
No
|
| Krystal Gerald Professor |
| blood research, effect of diet on cancer, immunology, inflammation | Although I am not taking any new graduate students, I would be happy to sit as a committee member on appropriate graduate student committees. | Yes |
Biobanks Availability:
No
Equipment Availability:
No
|
| Lam Wan Professor |
| cancer genomics, lung cancer, cancer progression, epigenetics and non-coding RNA, technology development | Maybe | Yes |
Biobanks Availability:
No
Equipment Availability:
No
|
| Lan James Assistant Professor |
| access to transplantation, antibody-mediated rejection, donor specific antibodies, histocompatibility and immunogenetics, immune monitoring, next generation sequencing, outcomes evaluation, precision medicine in transplantation | Yes | Yes |
Biobanks Availability:
No
Equipment Availability:
Yes
Details on Equipment:
Yes - at this time my equipment are still all under "clinical" so not easily shared with others for research purposes. But I am looking to get a dedicated research space outside of the clinical Immunology Lab. When that happens then there could be opportunities for sharing.
|
| Lange Philipp Associate Professor |
| bioinformatics, cancer, immuno therapy, mass spectrometry, Molecular pathology, pediatric, post translational modification, precision medicine, proteolysis, proteomics, tumor microenvironment | Yes | Yes |
Biobanks Availability:
No
Equipment Availability:
Yes
Details on Equipment:
1. TimsTOF Pro Mass Spectrometer (single cell) - This is a type of mass spectrometer that is especially useful in proteomics, including single-cell proteomics. It's a piece of advanced analytical equipment used to identify and quantify proteins in complex biological samples.
2. Q-Exactive HF Orbitrap Mass Spectrometer - Another mass spectrometer, this one known for its high resolution and accuracy. It's used broadly in biochemical applications including proteomics and metabolomics to analyze molecular identities. 3. Leica LMD7 Laser Capture Microdissection - This is a device used to precisely cut out and collect specific cells from a wide variety of tissue samples under microscopic visualization, often used in research that requires specific cells for DNA, RNA, or protein extraction and analysis. 4. Zeiss Celldiscoverer 7 LSM 900 with Airyscan confocal microscope - A highly advanced confocal microscope that provides detailed imaging of cells and microscopic structures with enhanced resolution and sensitivity. It is used in fields such as cell biology, neuroscience, and developmental biology. 5. IonTorrent sequencer - This is a type of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology that uses semiconductor technology to perform DNA sequencing. This equipment is crucial in genomics for analyzing genetic variations. 6. Barocycler 2320EXT - This equipment is used for pressure cycling technology (PCT), which is a method of using alternating pressure levels to control biomolecular interactions. It's used in sample preparation, particularly for extracting proteins, nucleic acids, and other molecules from biological samples. |
| Laule Corree Associate Professor |
| aging, axons, brain, histology, image analysis, image processing, imaging, microscopy, MRI, multiple sclerosis, myelin, neurodegeneration, neuroinflammation, neurology, pathology, physics, radiology, spinal cord, spinal cord injury | Yes | Yes |
Biobanks Availability:
Yes
List of Biobanks:
MS formalin-fixed brain tissue
Equipment Availability:
No
|
| Lockwood Will Associate Professor |
| drug discovery, drug resistance, early detection, Genomics, lung cancer, mouse models, signaling, therapeutics | Yes | Yes |
Biobanks Availability:
No
Equipment Availability:
No
Comments on Potential Collaborations:
Not really biobanks or equipment, but we have genetically engineered mouse models of KRAS, MET and EGFR driven lung cancer that we would be happy to provide to colleagues or collaborate with them if they are interested.
|
| Luo Honglin Professor |
| lung and breast cancer, myocarditis, oncolytic virus, protein/organelle quality control, RNA viruses, viral pathogenesis, virotherapy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis | Yes | Yes |
Biobanks Availability:
Yes
List of Biobanks:
Cardiovascular Biobanks in the Centre for Heart Lung Innovation
Equipment Availability:
No
|
| MacKenzie Ian Professor |
| dementia, frontotemporal dementia, molecular genetics, neurodegenerative disease, proteinopathy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis | Yes | Yes |
Biobanks Availability:
Yes
List of Biobanks:
neurodegenerative tissue biobank
Equipment Availability:
No
|
| Minchinton Andrew Associate Professor |
| 3D tissue models, DNA repair mechanism, drug discovery, electron transport chain, extravascular drug distribution, FLASH radiotherapy, MRI applications in oncology, tumor microenvironment | Yes | Yes |
Biobanks Availability:
No
Equipment Availability:
No
|
| Nielsen Torsten Professor |
| breast cancer, histopathology, molecular diagnostics, sarcoma | depends. My duties as MD/PhD program director force me onto a large number of committees, more than my bandwidth really allows. I can only sit on Pathology student committees if they are also in the MD/PhD program, as a few are. | Yes |
Biobanks Availability:
Yes
List of Biobanks:
Bone & Soft Tissue biobank and MAPcore
Details on Biobanks:
I help manage the Bone & Soft Tissue biobank, as well as MAPcore which can provide access to tissue microarrays of most tissues and tumor types
Equipment Availability:
Yes
Details on Equipment:
equipment including immunohistochemistry autostainers, microscope slide scanners, nanoString prep station / digital analyzer / GeoMX digital spatial profiler, and a Zeiss axioscan https://mapcore.med.ubc.ca/equipment/
|
| Park Yongjin Assistant Professor |
| cancer genomics, causal inference, computational biology, high-dimensional data analysis, single-cell genomics | Yes | Yes |
Biobanks Availability:
Yes
List of Biobanks:
CanPATH, potentially UK biobank (any large biobank with genomics information)
Details on Biobanks:
Our lab focuses on designing a new computational method tailored to large-scale data analysis. We collaborate with the labs at BC Cancer to make single-cell data analysis accessible and robust.
Equipment Availability:
Yes
Details on Equipment:
GPU workstation and HPC clusters
|
| Perrone Lucy Associate Professor |
| laboratory education, microbiology, professional development, proficiency testing, quality, quality education, quality management, quality standards | Yes | Yes |
Biobanks Availability:
No
Equipment Availability:
Yes
Details on Equipment:
Fully functional microbiology BSL-2 laboratory capable of culturing microorganisms
Comments on Potential Collaborations:
Seeking: partners who have molecular capabilities such as real time PCR and some staff capability I could contract with.
|
| Quandt Jacqueline Assistant Professor |
| foundational or basic research, immunology, inflammation, multiple sclerosis, neurodegeneration, neuroimmunology, neuroinflammation, preclinical models of disease | Yes | Yes |
Biobanks Availability:
No
Equipment Availability:
Yes
Details on Equipment:
What I do have/utilize are several conventional and novel/risk variant models of inflammatory and chemical demyelinating/neurodegenerative MS preclinical models which includes tissues and samples which we use for biomarker evaluation compared to human tissues and samples which we obtain from collaborators/have ongoing collaborations for national studies (and a small set of our own, which we cannot make available at this time).
|
| Roth Andrew Assistant Professor |
| bioinformatics, cancer, computational statistics, Genomics, machine learning, single cell omics | Yes | Yes |
Biobanks Availability:
No
Equipment Availability:
No
|
| Sadar Marianne Professor |
| translational research and basic research/cancer biology | Maybe | No |
Biobanks Availability:
No
Equipment Availability:
No
|
| Schaeffer David Associate Professor |
| colorectal cancer, GI Pathology, Next-Generation Sequencing, pancreatic cancer | Yes | Yes |
Biobanks Availability:
Yes
List of Biobanks:
GI biobank
Equipment Availability:
No
|
| Seow Chun Professor |
| airway smooth muscle, and mechanopharmacology, asthma, lung mechanics, muscle mechanics, smooth muscle biochemistry | Yes | Yes |
Biobanks Availability:
Yes
List of Biobanks:
Lung Registry at the Centre for Heart Lung Innovation
Details on Biobanks:
We have frozen human lung tissue and inflated whole lungs from asthmatic, COPD, and healthy donners.
Equipment Availability:
Yes
Details on Equipment:
Myographs for in vitro smooth muscle experiments, measuring muscle force, shortening, power, and stiffness. Plethysmograph for whole lung experiments, measuring lung elastance and resistance. The plethysmograph can be placed in a CT scanner to measure structural changes in the lungs while monitoring the changes in lung mechanics.
|
| Sierocinski Thomas Adjunct Professor |
| Analytical validation Process, automation, Biomarker development and deployment, Data mining, Genomics, High throughput biological data management and analysis, Molecular pathology, optimization and reproducibility, Quality Control | No | Yes |
Biobanks Availability:
No
Equipment Availability:
No
|
| Sorensen Poul Professor |
| and immunotherapy, biochemistry and proteomics, cell stress pathways, childhood cancers, childhood CNS tumors, childhood sarcomas, pediatric oncology, the tumor microenvironment | Maybe | Yes |
Biobanks Availability:
No
Equipment Availability:
No
|
| Steidl Christian Professor |
| biomarker, cancer, cancer genomics, immunology, lymphoma, molecular genetics, outcome prediction, targeted therapy, tumor microenvironment | Yes | Yes |
Biobanks Availability:
No
Equipment Availability:
No
|
| Takei Fumio Professor |
| allergic lung inflammation, cytokines, hepatitis. fibrosis, innate immunity, lymphocytes | No | No |
Biobanks Availability:
No
Equipment Availability:
No
|
| Venturutti Leandro Assistant Professor |
| autoimmune disorders and adaptive immune responses, B cells, blood cancer, clonal precursor populations, disease dissemination, immune biology, lymphoma, preclinical models, tumor immunology, functional genetics | Yes | Yes |
Biobanks Availability:
No
Equipment Availability:
No
|
| Wang Ying Assistant Professor |
| cardiovascular disease, drug repurposing, human tissue and blood biobank, in situ multiplex imaging, inflammation, transcriptomics | Yes | Yes |
Biobanks Availability:
Yes
List of Biobanks:
Cardiovascular Biobanks
Details on Biobanks:
Bruce McManus Cardiovascular Biobank that has the largest collection of freshly collected failed hearts and valves in Canada: https://www.hli.ubc.ca/our-services/cardiovascular-tissue-registry/ PhenoCycler multiplex imaging platform: can image 3-50+ protein markers on one tissue section
Equipment Availability:
No
|
| Watson Peter Professor |
| biobanking, biomarkers, breast cancer, Molecular pathology | Yes | Yes |
Biobanks Availability:
Yes
List of Biobanks:
BC Cancer Tumor tissue repository (biobank) and the BC Cancer Biobanking and Biospecimen services (biobank services)
Details on Biobanks:
I direct the BC Cancer Tumor tissue repository (biobank) and the BC Cancer Biobanking and Biospecimen services (biobank services). Details of these and several subcollections that are all open access and CTRNet registered and certified can be found on the Canadian Tissue Repository Network (CTRNet) national biobank locator https://biobanking.org/locator
Equipment Availability:
No
|
| Wellington Cheryl Professor |
| biomarkers, dementia, lipids, neurology, neurotrauma | Yes | Yes |
Biobanks Availability:
Yes
List of Biobanks:
COVID-19 biobank
Details on Biobanks:
COVID-19 biobank consisting of acute blood (serum and plasma) specimens from COVID-19 patients hospitalized the ICU during the first waves of the pandemic, as well as chronic specimens collected from patients who recovered from COVID-19 infections up to ~2 years post-infection. Some ICU samples have limited PBMCs.
Equipment Availability:
Yes
Details on Equipment:
The Wellington lab has a major interest in fluid biomarkers, and has the following resources available now on a collaborative basis: Quanterix HD-X (2 units), SP-X (1 unit) and Alamar NULISA Argo (1 unit).
Expected in 2025: Roche cobas e402 and Fujirebio Lumipulse G1200
Comments on Potential Collaborations:
For clinical biomarker projects, we will work with interested laboratories to develop a scope of work and deliver high quality data, leveraging our volume discounts for assay kits.
The Wellington lab also has access to equipment and resources for pre-clinical research, including a Light sheet microscope with experience in tissue clearing and image analysis pipelines, a slide scanner, and expertise in pluripotent stem cell differentiation to brain-relevant cell types (neurons, astrocytes, endothelial cells). |
| Weng Andrew Professor |
| acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) pathogenesis, clinical flow cytometry and lymphoma tumor repository, high-throughput sequencing and gene editing technologies, NOTCH1 and oncogene research in T-ALL, tumor heterogeneity in B-cell lymphoma | Yes | Yes |
Biobanks Availability:
Yes
List of Biobanks:
Lymphoma biobank, Hematology Cell Bank
Equipment Availability:
No
|
| Wright Joanne Professor |
| chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), interstitial lung disease; cryobiopsy | No | No |
Biobanks Availability:
No
Equipment Availability:
No
|
| Yip Stephen Associate Professor |
| brain cancer, cancer, epigenomics, Genomics, neuro-oncology, neuropathology, oncology, pathology | Yes | Yes |
Biobanks Availability:
Yes
List of Biobanks:
Snap frozen Brain tumour tissue/blood samples
Details on Biobanks:
Yes Snap frozen Brain tumour tissue/blood samples collected in 2000-2008. No longer actively banking.
Equipment Availability:
No
Comments on Potential Collaborations:
Open to collaborative translational research projects on molecular diagnostics with access to sequencing and molecular profiling platforms at BC Cancer
|
| Name | Research Categories | keywords | Grad Committee Service? | Interested in Research Collab? | Collaborative Resources |
I would be interested on collaborating with immunologists, particularly those with expertise in B cell biology, as understanding the B cell response to lung cancer will be a focus of my lab. From another angle, those with expertise in statistics such as topological analysis or graph-based approaches would be an asset to help understand complex spatial data derived from clinical samples that is often coupled with clinical and/or genomics data.