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10:30 am Join us in congratulating Dr. Cornelia (Corree) Laule on her promotion to Professor! 🥳👏 With 22 years of experience in MRI research, Dr. Laule has made significant contributions to our understanding of multiple sclerosis and spinal cord injuries.

10:23 am Dr. Cheryl Wellington and her collaborative network have been awarded $3.4M to support survivors of intimate partner violence with brain injuries.

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10:13 am Congrats to our Pathology students for winning 2024 Vanier and Banting awards: Razieh Sadat Banijamali(Vanier); Dr. Anne-Sophie Archambault (Banting), and Dr. Zhenwei Ma (Banting).

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6:22 pm For the first time in the world, a new method to match donor organs to recipients will be tested in Canada. The research project just received $5.8 million in funding

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1:03 pm Dr. Marc Romney is leading the integration of robots and AI in B.C. hospitals, as highlighted by @CBCNews. Discover how this transforms patient care:

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11:47 am Andrew Churg was appointed as an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Medicine, congratulations.

11:26 am The Wellington lab is honoured to have leadership roles in the International Initiative on Traumatic Brain Injury Research, The Canadian Traumatic Brain Injury Research Consortium, and the Canadian Concussion Network.

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11:09 am Dr. Dana V. Devine has been elected as The Biomedical Excellence for Safer Transfusion (BEST) new President, effective September 29, 2022.

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11:09 am Dr. Michelle Wong has been appointed as the new Assistant Dean, Student Affairs, Fraser, from June 1, 2022 – May 31, 2025, with the possibility of a 3-year appointment renewal term.

11:53 am Dr. Lange, Dr. Kizhakkedathu and Dr. Yazdani-Ahmadabadi have developed a new silver-based coating for medical devices that kills bacteria and prevents infection.

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10:53 am Feature Stories Dr. Poul Sorensen’s breakthrough cancer research has saved countless lives. But he thinks we can cut the time from discovery to treatment by 50% — or more.

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10:57 am Ovarian Cancer Scientists at UBC are determined to reduce ovarian cancer deaths and suffering by 50 per cent over the next decade.

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3:10 pm Congratulations to Dr. Ramon Klein Geltink, who has been awarded funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF) to support his project titled “Metabolic monitoring of immune cell function”

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3:24 pm Congratulations to Drs. Leandro Venturutti, Ying Wang, Yuzhuo Wang, David Granville, Andrew Minchinton and, Edward Pryzdial CIHR Fall 2021 Project Grant Recipients!

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9:35 am This year marks the UBC Faculty of Medicine’s Bachelor of Medical Laboratory Science (BMLSc) program’s 40th anniversary

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10:15 am We wanted to share this story featuring one of our clinical faculty members, Dr. Mari DeMarco. Some truly remarkable work on Alzheimer’s diagnostics testing, and a first in Canada.

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10:10 am Congratulations to Drs. Amal El Naggar, David Huntsman and Poul Sorensen for being awarded the 2021 ovCAN/Ovarian Cancer Canada-Cancer Research Society Grant for the project entitled: "CTH in clear cell ovarian cancer: a targetable legacy of endometriotic origins"
10:17 am Dr. Hardwick’s in memoriam page is now published:

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6:09 pm FROM TESTS TO VACCINES: THE LAB’S ROLE IN A PANDEMIC RCH Foundation Interview with Dr. Reza Alaghehbandan

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6:27 pm In the News: Vancouver Sun: Long-term care residents show weaker immune response to first dose of vaccine

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Based on the preprint with numerous UBC PLM authors:
10:11 am Mitacs Internship Opportunity for Summer Term 2021 (Graduate Students Job Opportunity)

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2:59 pm Gift announcement!: Throughout his career, Don Rix had supported laboratory quality including providing a donation in 2007 that supported the establishment of the Program Office for Laboratory Quality Management. Don Rix’s rich history in quality and research will continue to be recognized through his daughter, Laurie Rix’s generous donation, and the Provost’s matching funding, that will enable the creation of the Rix Professorship in Laboratory Quality, a grant tenure track appointment. The creation of this appointment will allow the successful successor to build upon foundations of Education, Outreach, and Research activities of Clinical Microbiology Proficiency Testing program and Program Office for Laboratory Quality.
9:55 am Sharing recent CFI success: Linking Transmission Metadata to Viral Genotype and Serological Response of COVID-19 Principal Investigator: Dr. Mel Krajden (Pathology and Laboratory Medicine) $630,000

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9:49 am Sharing recent CFI success: The ABCD Consortium (“Accelerating Blood and Cardiopulmonary COVID-19 Diagnostics”) Principal Investigator: Dr. Mari DeMarco (Pathology and Laboratory Medicine) $502,600

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9:35 am Congratulations Dr. David Granville on your new appointment as Associate Dean of Research at VCHRI!
8:59 am We are delighted to announce the newest faculty member to the Centre for Heart Lung Innovation (HLI) and the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. Dr. Wang will start her appointment as an Assistant Professor at UBC in March 2021."
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9:05 am COVID research news story. Blood test could prevent COVID-19 patients from getting sicker

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8:12 am Congratulations to Dr. Mari DeMarco on receiving funds from MSFHR! The team will be developing a next-generation serology test to identify which patients will become severely ill from COVID19.

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8:03 am Dr. Morshed is one of the COVID-19 Research Response Fund Awardee. How do you facilitate COVID19 community immunity for people who are street entrenched, in prison, or live in remote or rural communities? Dr. Morshed will investigate this w/ funding from MSFHR's COVID19 Research Response Fund.

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8:19 am Congratulations to Dr. Agatha Jassem on receiving funds from MSFHR! "Population-based Study of Coronavirus Antibody Cross-Reactivity to Inform SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence Surveys, Severity Profiles, and Vaccine Strategies"

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