Dr. Cheryl Wellington Awarded $1.7 Million CIHR Grant for Dementia Biomarker Research
Congratulations to Dr. Cheryl Wellington on receiving $1,699,389 through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Project Grant program for a four-year study of plasma biomarkers in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias! 🌟
Dr. Allison Matthews Receives Renewal of BCCHR Clinical Investigator Award
Congratulations to Dr. Allison Matthews on the renewal for a five year term of her BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute Investigator Grant Award Program (IGAP) Clinical Investigator Award! 🌟
Dr. Cheryl Wellington Awarded Brain Canada Platform Support Grant
Congratulations to Dr. Cheryl Wellington on receiving a Brain Canada 2025 Platform Support Grant, totaling $1.95 million! 🌟
Dr. Jonathan Bush Receives BCCHR Investigator Establishment Award
Congratulations to Dr. Jonathan Bush, who has received a BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute (BCCHR) Investigator Establishment Award, providing up to $200,000 over three years! 🌟
Congratulations to Dr. James Lan and Dr. Karen Sherwood
Congratulations to Dr. James Lan and Dr. Karen Sherwood, who are among the 2026 recipients of the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute Innovation and Translational Research Awards! 🌟
Congratulations to Faculty of Medicine Distinguished Achievement Award Recipients
Congratulations to Dr. Cornelia Laule and Dr. Bruce Verchere, who are among this year’s recipients of the Faculty of Medicine Distinguished Achievement Awards! 🌟
Dr. David Huntsman Receives Life Sciences BC Award
Congratulations to Dr. David Huntsman on being awarded the Scientific Entrepreneurship Award from Life Sciences BC! 🌟
Congratulations to Drs. Jenny Tran and James Lan on receiving the 2026 TTS International Basic and Translational Sciences Mentee-Mentor Award
Congratulations to Drs. Jenny Tran and James Lan, who have been selected to receive the 2026 TTS International Basic and Translational Sciences Mentee-Mentor Award! 🌟
Drs. Karen Sherwood and James Lan Receive 2026 Innovation & Translational Research Awards
Congratulations to Drs. Karen Sherwood and James Lan on receiving the 2026 Innovation & Translational Research Awards funded by the VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation, valued at $100,000 each over 2 years! 🌟
UBC Medical Microbiology trainees recognized at AMMI Canada – CACMID Annual Conference
Congratulations to UBC Medical Microbiology trainees, Drs. Geneviève Amaral (PGY-4), Emma Finlayson-Trick (PGY-3), and Lynne Li (Medical Microbiology, CW) for being recognized at AMMI Canada – CACMID Annual Conference 🌟
Dr. David Huntsman Receives 2025 Rosalind Franklin Prize
Congratulations to Dr. David Huntsman on being awarded the 2025 Rosalind Franklin Prize for Excellence in Ovarian Cancer Research by the Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance (OCRA)! 🌟
Pathology faculty part of $21M federal investment in research infrastructure
Congratulations to Drs. Cornelia Laule and Leandro Venturutti, whose projects are part of a $21M federal investment to accelerate research infrastructure at UBC Medicine! 🌟
Pathology faculty lead major share of newly funded genomics projects
Congratulations to Drs. Patrick Tang, Marcel Bally, and David Huntsman for partnering with industry to advance newly funded genomics projects aimed at improving disease detection, diagnosis and treatment! 🌟
Dr. Poul Sorensen Receives Chew Wei Memorial Prize in Cancer Research
Congratulations to Dr. Poul Sorensen on receiving the Chew Wei Memorial Prize in Cancer Research! This national UBC Faculty of Medicine award honours a Canadian physician or scientist for outstanding contributions to cancer treatment and therapies. 🌟
Dr. David Huntsman Receives Funding for Cancer Prevention Research
Congratulations to Dr. David Huntsman for being awarded $2 million to support research on ovarian cancer prevention! 🌟
Research Funding – Dr. Ali Bashashati: Harnessing AI to Improve Ovarian Cancer Outcomes
Congratulations to a team of UBC researchers, led by Dr. Ali Bashashati, for being part of an international team awarded $2 million to use artificial intelligence (AI) to improve prediction of ovarian cancer survival, support treatment selection, and inform clinical trial recommendations! 🌟
Amirhossein Bahreyni Receives 2025 James C. Hogg Outstanding Young Investigator Award
Congratulations to Amirhossein Bahreyni, Ph.D. candidate, who has received the 2025 James C. Hogg Outstanding Young Investigator Award from the Centre for Heart Lung Innovation (HLI), University of British Columbia and St. Paul’s Hospital!🌟
Congratulations to Dr. Poul Sorensen – Recipient of the 2025 alumni UBC Research and Innovation Award
Congratulations to Dr. Poul Sorensen on receiving the 2025 alumni UBC Research and Innovation Award! 🌟
Dr. Christian Steidl Receives 2025 Blood Cancer Operating Grant
Congratulations to Dr. Christian Steidl on receiving a 2025 Operating Grant in Blood Cancer, co-funded by AstraZeneca Canada and The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada! 🌟
Terry Fox New Frontiers Program Project Grant Team Studying Sarcoma
Congratulations to a team of UBC and BC Cancer Research Institute investigators, co-led by Dr. David Huntsman and Dr. Torsten Nielsen, who have received renewed support through a $5.5-million Terry Fox New Frontiers Program Project Grant (PPG)! 🌟
Dr. Patrick Tang Receives Michael Smith Health Research BC Investigator Award
Congratulations to Dr. Patrick Tang who has been awarded a Michael Smith Health Research BC Health Professional-Investigator Award totaling $90,000 (2025-2030)!🌟
Dr. Arun K. Garg Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation
Congratulations to Dr. Arun K. Garg for being recognized with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation as part of its 2025 Champions of Philanthropy program! 🌟
Dr. Daniele Ferrari Receives 2025 Health Research BC Trainee Award
Congratulations to Dr. Daniele Ferrari on receiving a 2025 Health Research BC Trainee Award! 🌟
Dr. David Huntsman Receives the 2025 Doctors of BC Terry Fox Medal
Congratulations to Dr. David Huntsman for being awarded the 2025 Doctors of BC Terry Fox Medal! 🌟
Congratulations to our 2025 Faculty of Medicine Award Recipients
Congratulations to our 2025 Faculty of Medicine Award Recipients, Drs. Agatha Jassem, Poul Sorensen, David Granville, and Stephen Yip! 🌟
Congratulations to Dr. Patrick Tang on Receiving the 2025 Health Research BC Award
Congratulations to Dr. Patrick Tang on receiving the 2025 Scholar & Health Professional-Investigator Award from Michael Smith Health Research BC! 🌟
Congratulations to Dr. Poul Sorensen
Congratulations to Dr. Poul Sorensen for being awarded the 2025 Dr. Chew Wei Memorial Prize in Cancer Research, making him one of only three Canadian researchers recognized by UBC Medicine’s National Research Prizes this year! 🌟
Dr. Lien Hoang and Team Receive 2025 Gynecologic Cancer Research Grant
Congratulations to Dr. Lien Hoang along with trainees Drs. Jennifer Ji and Allen Zhang, for being awarded the 2025 Sumiko Kobayashi Marks Memorial Research Grant! 🌟
Dr. Marcel Bally Awarded 2025 Carraresi Foundation Research Grant
Congratulations to Dr. Marcel Bally and trainee Dr. Maryam Sharifiaghdam on receiving the 2025 Carraresi Foundation Research Grant from the Gynecologic Cancer Initiative (GCI)! 🌟
Dr. Diana Ionescu Co-Awarded CIHR Grant for HPV FOCAL LEGACY Study
Congratulations to Dr. Diana Ionescu, for her role as co-applicant on the newly funded CIHR Project Grant: HPV FOCAL LEGACY. The project received over $1.28 million in federal funding and aims to inform national screening strategies! 🌟
Three Department Faculty Members Receive Federal Research Funding
Congratulations to Dr. Ali Bashashati, Dr. Ying Wang, and Dr. Jayachandran Kizhakkedathu from Pathology and Laboratory Medicine who were among 35 UBC Faculty of Medicine researchers awarded funding through federal research granting agencies! 🌟
Three Department Faculty Members Awarded CIHR Project Grants
Congratulations to Dr. Honglin Luo, Dr. Aly Karsan, and Dr. Katey Enfield, from Pathology and Laboratory Medicine who were among 45 UBC Faculty of Medicine researchers awarded over $40 million in Canadian Institutes of Health Research funding! 🌟
Congratulations to Jennifer Cooper – VCHRI Top Doctoral Student
Congratulations to Jennifer Cooper, PhD student supervised by Dr. Cheryl Wellington, for being awarded the 2025 Top Graduating Doctoral Student Award by the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI)! 🌟
Three Pathology Faculty Honored with Distinguished Achievement Awards
Congratulations to Dr. David Granville, Dr. Stephen Yip, and Dr. Poul Sorenson, three faculty members from the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at UBC, who received 2025 Faculty of Medicine Distinguished Achievement Awards! 🌟
Two Pathology Department Faculty Win Innovation and Translational Research Awards
Congratulations to Dr. David Granville and Dr. Cheryl Wellington, both professors in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at UBC, who are among the 2025 Innovation and Translational Research Award recipients from Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute! 🌟
Congratulations to Dr. Marthe Charles for securing genomics research funding
Congratulations to Dr. Marthe Charles on securing genomics research funding for her project on bloodstream infection diagnostics! 🌟
Congratulations to Dr. Linda Hoang for securing genomics research funding
Congratulations to Dr. Linda Hoang on securing genomics research funding for her project on healthcare-associated infections! 🌟
Congratulations to Dr. William Lockwood for securing genomics research funding
Congratulations to Dr. William Lockwood on securing genomics research funding for his project on at-home lung cancer screening! 🌟
Congratulations to Dr. Tony Ng on securing genomics research funding
Congratulations to Dr. Tony Ng on securing genomics research funding for his project on cancer gene detection! 🌟
Congratulations to Dr. James Lan for securing genomics research funding!
Congratulations to Dr. James Lan on securing genomics research funding for his project on kidney transplant monitoring! 🌟
UBC Open Education Champion – Dr. Jennifer Kong
Congratulations to Dr. Jennifer Kong, Adjunct Professor at UBC Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and Instructor at BCIT! She has been recognized as a 2024/25 UBC Open Education Champion for her work on the Undergraduate Pathology Textbook. 🌟
Congratulations to Dr. Jennifer Ji
Congratulations to Dr. Jennifer Ji, a MD/PhD student at UBC and Vanier Scholar, who has been awarded the first-ever Society for Pediatric Pathology USCAP Pathologist-in-Training Award at the 2025 USCAP annual meeting! 🌟
CIHR Team Grant Awarded to Dr. Hélène Côté
Congratulations to Dr. Hélène Côté, Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, on securing a CIHR Team Grant totaling $2 million over five years.🌟
Congratulations to Dr. Cheryl Wellington on Major U.S. Department of Defense Grant
Congratulations to Dr. Cheryl Wellington on Major U.S. Department of Defense Grant. Dr. Wellington has been awarded a U.S. Department of Defense Operating Grant totaling $8.2 million (2025–2029)🌟
Laboratory Quality Conference (LabQCon)
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! 🌟
Laboratory Quality Conference (LabQCon)
June 16-17th, 2025, in person and via Zoom!
Paetzole Health Education Center, Vancouver General Hospital
Congratulations to Dr. David Huntsman of UBC Pathology & Laboratory Medicine on receiving The King Charles III Coronation Medal
Congratulations to Dr. David Huntsman of UBC Pathology & Laboratory Medicine on receiving The King Charles III Coronation Medal! 🌟
Congratulations to UBC’s Dr. Poul Sorensen
Congratulations to UBC’s Dr. Poul Sorensen, Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, on receiving the 2024 Doctors of BC Terry Fox Medal for his outstanding contributions to hashtag#ChildhoodCancer research and translating scientific discoveries into clinical practice. 🌟
2024 Presidents Staff Award
Congrats to Joanne Wouterse, Jennifer Xenakis, Jenny Tai, and Juliana Li for receiving the 2024 President’s Staff Award for Collaborative Excellence! 👏 Their teamwork and dedication to the BMLSc program at UBC are truly inspiring.
Dr. Torsten Nielsen Elected to the Royal Society of Canada
Congratulations to our professor, Dr. Torsten Nielsen, on being named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada for his outstanding contributions to pathology and laboratory medicine.
Cheryl Wellington has been elected as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences!
Dr. Cheryl Wellington has been elected as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences! This honor recognizes her outstanding contributions and leadership in health sciences. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Wellington on this wonderful achievement!