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2022 ARCHIVE

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11/2022 Congratulations to Dr. Sam Aparicio on the renewal of his Tier-1 Canada Research Chair

11/2022 Congratulations to Dr. Jay Kizhakkedathu for being awarded the new Tier 1 Canadian Research Chair

11/2022 Congratulations to Dr. Aly Karsan for being awarded the new Tier 1 Canadian Research Chair

10/2022 Congratulations to Jennifer Xenakis on winning The Richard Hare Award. The Richard Hare Award is given to the worker safety advocate who has taken on a longstanding leadership role in the university’s health and safety community

10/2022 Congratulations to Dr. Cornelia Laule receiving the 2022 Overall Excellence — Mid-Career

10/2022 Congratulations to Dr. Cheryl Wellington receiving the 2022 Excellence in Clinical or Applied Research

10/2022 Congratulations to Dr. Jay Jay Kizhakkedathu receiving the 2022 Distinguished Achievement Awards

10/2022 Congratulations to Dr. Aly Karsan on receiving the 2022 Killam Research Prize

10/2022 Congratulations to Dr. Tracy Tucker on receiving the 2022 Killam Teaching Prize

10/2022 Congratulations to Dr. David Goldfarb on receiving the 2022 Clinical Faculty Award for Excellence in Research

09/2022 Andrew Churg was appointed as an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Medicine, congratulations.

09/2022 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.

08/2022 Dr. Mari DeMarco is a recipient of the 2022 CSCC Award for Research Excellence. The Award for Research Excellence is presented to an individual or group, as a mark of recognition of their contribution to research related to clinical chemistry in Canada.

07/2022 CHAIR is pleased to select Dr. Victor Leung, Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Control and the Physician Lead of Antimicrobial Stewardship at Providence Health Care (PHC), as the 2021 CHAIR Leadership Award recipient in Vancouver, BC.

06/2022 Congratulations to Dr. Cheryl Wellington on receiving a 2022 Faculty of Medicine Distinguished Achievement Award for Excellence in Clinical or Applied Research!

06/2022 Congratulations to Dr. Corree Laule on receiving a 2022 Faculty of Medicine Distinguished Achievement Award for Overall Excellence – Mid-career!

06/2022 Congratulations to Dr. Jayachandran Kizhakkedathu on receiving a 2022 Faculty of Medicine Distinguished Achievement Award for Excellence in Basic Science Research!

06/2022 Dr. Dana V. Devine has been elected as The Biomedical Excellence for Safer Transfusion (BEST) new President, effective September 29, 2022.

06/2022 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.

06/2022 Dr. Elizabeth Bryce is a recipient of the YWCA Women of Distinction Awards 2022.

04/2022 Dr. Lange, Dr. Kizhakkedathu and Dr. Yazdani-Ahmadabadi have developed a new silver-based coating for medical devices that kills bacteria and prevents infection.

04/2022 Dr. Poul Sorensen has been named the recipient of the 2022 Herman Suit Award from the the Connective Tissue Oncology Society for his pioneering work on human sarcomas, which are malignant tumors of the connective tissues. The award is presented annually for outstanding contributions to the basic science of sarcomas.

04/2022 Dr. Mari DeMarco Winner of the 2022 Michael S. Bereman Award for Innovative Clinical Proteomics.

04/2022 Dr. Tracy Tucker is a recipient of the prestigious 2021/2022 Killam Teaching Prize, which is awarded to UBC faculty in recognition of excellence in teaching.

04/2022 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.

03/2022 Ovarian Cancer Scientists at UBC are determined to reduce ovarian cancer deaths and suffering by 50 per cent over the next decade.

03/2022 Congratulations to Dr. Aly Karsan , who received a prestigious UBC Killam Research Prize for 2021 in the applied sciences, medicine & sciences, senior category.

02/2022 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”

02/2022 Congratulations to Drs. Leandro Venturutti, Ying Wang, Yuzhuo Wang, David Granville, Andrew Minchinton and, Edward Pryzdial CIHR Fall 2021 Project Grant Recipients!