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LastEnfield
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Katey
Please check all research categories that apply to your interests- Cancer Research and Oncology
- Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
- Translational Medicine and Drug Discovery
- Molecular Genetics and Precision Medicine
Post your research keywordsB cells, bioinformatics, cancer genomics, cancer immunology, data integration, lung cancer, spatial profiling techniques, tumour microenvironment
Are you interested in collaborative research?
Yes
Do you have any biobanks available for collaborative research?
No
Do you have any other equipment or resources available for collaborative research?
No
LastYip
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Stephen
Please check all research categories that apply to your interests- Cancer Research and Oncology
- Neuroscience and Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Translational Medicine and Drug Discovery
- Molecular Genetics and Precision Medicine
Post your research keywordsbrain cancer, cancer, epigenomics, Genomics, neuro-oncology, neuropathology, oncology, pathology
Are you interested in collaborative research?
Yes
Do you have any biobanks available for collaborative research?
Yes
If yes, please provide more details or describe the biobanks available:
Yes Snap frozen Brain tumour tissue/blood samples collected in 2000-2008. No longer actively banking.
Do you have any other equipment or resources available for collaborative research?
No
LastWright
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Joanne
Please check all research categories that apply to your interests- Cardiopulmonary and Vascular Medicine
Post your research keywordschronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), interstitial lung disease; cryobiopsy
Are you interested in collaborative research?
No
Do you have any biobanks available for collaborative research?
No
Do you have any other equipment or resources available for collaborative research?
No
LastWeng
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Andrew
Please check all research categories that apply to your interests- Cancer Research and Oncology
- Translational Medicine and Drug Discovery
- Molecular Genetics and Precision Medicine
Post your research keywordsacute 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
Are you interested in collaborative research?
Yes
Do you have any biobanks available for collaborative research?
Yes
Do you have any other equipment or resources available for collaborative research?
No
LastWellington
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Cheryl
Please check all research categories that apply to your interests- Neuroscience and Neurodegenerative Diseases
Post your research keywordsbiomarkers, dementia, lipids, neurology, neurotrauma
Are you interested in collaborative research?
Yes
Do you have any biobanks available for collaborative research?
Yes
If yes, please provide more details or describe the biobanks available:
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.
Do you have any other equipment or resources available for collaborative research?
Yes
If yes, please provide more details or describe the equipment and resources available:
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
LastWatson
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Peter
Please check all research categories that apply to your interests- Cancer Research and Oncology
- Translational Medicine and Drug Discovery
- Molecular Genetics and Precision Medicine
Post your research keywordsbiobanking, biomarkers, breast cancer, Molecular pathology
Are you interested in collaborative research?
Yes
Do you have any biobanks available for collaborative research?
Yes
If yes, please provide more details or describe the biobanks available:
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
Do you have any other equipment or resources available for collaborative research?
No
LastWang
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Ying
Please check all research categories that apply to your interests- Cardiopulmonary and Vascular Medicine
- Translational Medicine and Drug Discovery
- Molecular Genetics and Precision Medicine
Post your research keywordscardiovascular disease, drug repurposing, human tissue and blood biobank, in situ multiplex imaging, inflammation, transcriptomics
Are you interested in collaborative research?
Yes
Do you have any biobanks available for collaborative research?
Yes
If yes, please provide more details or describe the biobanks available:
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
Do you have any other equipment or resources available for collaborative research?
No
LastVenturutti
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Leandro
Please check all research categories that apply to your interests- Cancer Research and Oncology
- Infectious Diseases and Immunology
Post your research keywordsautoimmune disorders and adaptive immune responses, B cells, blood cancer, clonal precursor populations, disease dissemination, immune biology, lymphoma, preclinical models, tumor immunology, functional genetics
Are you interested in collaborative research?
Yes
Do you have any biobanks available for collaborative research?
No
Do you have any other equipment or resources available for collaborative research?
No
LastTakei
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Fumio
Please check all research categories that apply to your interests- Infectious Diseases and Immunology
- Neuroscience and Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Cardiopulmonary and Vascular Medicine
Post your research keywordsallergic lung inflammation, cytokines, hepatitis. fibrosis, innate immunity, lymphocytes
Are you interested in collaborative research?
No
Do you have any biobanks available for collaborative research?
No
Do you have any other equipment or resources available for collaborative research?
No
LastSteidl
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Christian
Please check all research categories that apply to your interests- Cancer Research and Oncology
- Infectious Diseases and Immunology
- Translational Medicine and Drug Discovery
- Molecular Genetics and Precision Medicine
Post your research keywordsbiomarker, cancer, cancer genomics, immunology, lymphoma, molecular genetics, outcome prediction, targeted therapy, tumor microenvironment
Are you interested in collaborative research?
Yes
Do you have any biobanks available for collaborative research?
Yes
Do you have any other equipment or resources available for collaborative research?
No
LastSorensen
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Poul
Please check all research categories that apply to your interests- Cancer Research and Oncology
- Translational Medicine and Drug Discovery
- Molecular Genetics and Precision Medicine
Post your research keywordsand immunotherapy, biochemistry and proteomics, cell stress pathways, childhood cancers, childhood CNS tumors, childhood sarcomas, pediatric oncology, the tumor microenvironment
Are you interested in collaborative research?
Yes
Do you have any biobanks available for collaborative research?
No
Do you have any other equipment or resources available for collaborative research?
No
LastSierocinski
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Thomas
Please check all research categories that apply to your interests- Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
- Translational Medicine and Drug Discovery
- Molecular Genetics and Precision Medicine
Post your research keywordsAnalytical validation Process, automation, Biomarker development and deployment, Data mining, Genomics, High throughput biological data management and analysis, Molecular pathology, optimization and reproducibility, Quality Control
Are you interested in collaborative research?
Yes
Do you have any biobanks available for collaborative research?
No
Do you have any other equipment or resources available for collaborative research?
No
LastSeow
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Chun
Please check all research categories that apply to your interests- Cardiopulmonary and Vascular Medicine
- Translational Medicine and Drug Discovery
- Molecular Genetics and Precision Medicine
Post your research keywordsairway smooth muscle, and mechanopharmacology, asthma, lung mechanics, muscle mechanics, smooth muscle biochemistry
Are you interested in collaborative research?
Yes
Do you have any biobanks available for collaborative research?
Yes
If yes, please provide more details or describe the biobanks available:
We have frozen human lung tissue and inflated whole lungs from asthmatic, COPD, and healthy donners.
Do you have any other equipment or resources available for collaborative research?
Yes
If yes, please provide more details or describe the equipment and resources available:
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.
LastSchaeffer
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David
Please check all research categories that apply to your interests- Cancer Research and Oncology
- Translational Medicine and Drug Discovery
- Molecular Genetics and Precision Medicine
Post your research keywordscolorectal cancer, GI Pathology, Next-Generation Sequencing, pancreatic cancer
Are you interested in collaborative research?
Yes
Do you have any biobanks available for collaborative research?
Yes
Do you have any other equipment or resources available for collaborative research?
No
LastSadar
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Marianne
Please check all research categories that apply to your interests- Cancer Research and Oncology
- Translational Medicine and Drug Discovery
Post your research keywordstranslational research and basic research/cancer biology
Are you interested in collaborative research?
No
Do you have any biobanks available for collaborative research?
No
Do you have any other equipment or resources available for collaborative research?
No
LastRoth
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Andrew
Please check all research categories that apply to your interests- Cancer Research and Oncology
- Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
- Translational Medicine and Drug Discovery
Post your research keywordsbioinformatics, cancer, computational statistics, Genomics, machine learning, single cell omics
Are you interested in collaborative research?
Yes
Do you have any biobanks available for collaborative research?
No
Do you have any other equipment or resources available for collaborative research?
No
LastQuandt
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Jacqueline
Please check all research categories that apply to your interests- Infectious Diseases and Immunology
- Neuroscience and Neurodegenerative Diseases
Post your research keywordsfoundational or basic research, immunology, inflammation, multiple sclerosis, neurodegeneration, neuroimmunology, neuroinflammation, preclinical models of disease
Are you interested in collaborative research?
Yes
Do you have any biobanks available for collaborative research?
No
Do you have any other equipment or resources available for collaborative research?
Yes
If yes, please provide more details or describe the equipment and resources available:
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).
LastPerrone
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Lucy
Please check all research categories that apply to your interests- Translational Medicine and Drug Discovery
- Molecular Genetics and Precision Medicine
Post your research keywordslaboratory education, microbiology, professional development, proficiency testing, quality, quality education, quality management, quality standards
Are you interested in collaborative research?
Yes
Do you have any biobanks available for collaborative research?
No
Do you have any other equipment or resources available for collaborative research?
Yes
If yes, please provide more details or describe the equipment and resources available:
Fully functional microbiology BSL-2 laboratory capable of culturing microorganisms
LastPark
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Yongjin
Please check all research categories that apply to your interests- Cancer Research and Oncology
- Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
- Molecular Genetics and Precision Medicine
Post your research keywordscancer genomics, causal inference, computational biology, high-dimensional data analysis, single-cell genomics
Are you interested in collaborative research?
Yes
Do you have any biobanks available for collaborative research?
Yes
If yes, please provide more details or describe the biobanks available:
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.
Do you have any other equipment or resources available for collaborative research?
Yes
If yes, please provide more details or describe the equipment and resources available:
GPU workstation and HPC clusters
LastNielsen
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Torsten
Please check all research categories that apply to your interests- Cancer Research and Oncology
- Translational Medicine and Drug Discovery
- Molecular Genetics and Precision Medicine
Post your research keywordsbreast cancer, histopathology, molecular diagnostics, sarcoma
Are you interested in collaborative research?
Yes
Do you have any biobanks available for collaborative research?
Yes
If yes, please provide more details or describe the biobanks available:
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
Do you have any other equipment or resources available for collaborative research?
Yes
If yes, please provide more details or describe the equipment and resources available:
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/
LastMinchinton
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Andrew
Please check all research categories that apply to your interests- Cancer Research and Oncology
- Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
- Translational Medicine and Drug Discovery
Post your research keywords3D tissue models, DNA repair mechanism, drug discovery, electron transport chain, extravascular drug distribution, FLASH radiotherapy, MRI applications in oncology, tumor microenvironment
Are you interested in collaborative research?
Yes
Do you have any biobanks available for collaborative research?
No
Do you have any other equipment or resources available for collaborative research?
No
LastMacKenzie
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Ian
Please check all research categories that apply to your interests- Neuroscience and Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Molecular Genetics and Precision Medicine
Post your research keywordsdementia, frontotemporal dementia, molecular genetics, neurodegenerative disease, proteinopathy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Are you interested in collaborative research?
Yes
Do you have any biobanks available for collaborative research?
Yes
Do you have any other equipment or resources available for collaborative research?
No
LastLuo
First
Honglin
Please check all research categories that apply to your interests- Cancer Research and Oncology
- Infectious Diseases and Immunology
- Neuroscience and Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Cardiopulmonary and Vascular Medicine
- Translational Medicine and Drug Discovery
Post your research keywordslung and breast cancer, myocarditis, oncolytic virus, protein/organelle quality control, RNA viruses, viral pathogenesis, virotherapy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Are you interested in collaborative research?
Yes
Do you have any biobanks available for collaborative research?
Yes
Do you have any other equipment or resources available for collaborative research?
No
LastLockwood
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Will
Please check all research categories that apply to your interests- Cancer Research and Oncology
- Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
- Translational Medicine and Drug Discovery
- Molecular Genetics and Precision Medicine
Post your research keywordsdrug discovery, drug resistance, early detection, Genomics, lung cancer, mouse models, signaling, therapeutics
Are you interested in collaborative research?
Yes
Do you have any biobanks available for collaborative research?
No
Do you have any other equipment or resources available for collaborative research?
No
LastLaule
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Corree
Please check all research categories that apply to your interests- Neuroscience and Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Aging, Chronic Diseases, and Women’s Health
Post your research keywordsaging, axons, brain, histology, image analysis, image processing, imaging, microscopy, MRI, multiple sclerosis, myelin, neurodegeneration, neuroinflammation, neurology, pathology, physics, radiology, spinal cord, spinal cord injury
Are you interested in collaborative research?
Yes
Do you have any biobanks available for collaborative research?
Yes
Do you have any other equipment or resources available for collaborative research?
No