🧠 Meet Dr. Milan Valyear (@milanium.bsky.social), the new Assistant Professor in @psych.ubc.ca and a researcher at the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health!
Learn more about his career journey and his research into brain circuitry: https://bit.ly/4szI4fT
Dr. Nienke van Houten, a Lecturer and the Director of Undergraduate Education at @sfu-fhs.bsky.social, is being recognized with an Excellence in Teaching Award for 2025.
🎊 Congratulations Dr. van Houten! https://bit.ly/4sDjqeo
Dr. Peter Lansdorp's lab at BC Cancer has helped develop Strand‑seq, a powerful new method to aid in #DNASequencing.
🧬 Strand-seq allows for the study of DNA one chromosome at a time, showing how genetic information from both parents is arranged across the entire genome: https://bit.ly/3O2XBa4
Calling all podcast enthusiasts!
Dr. Lyana Patrick (@lyanap.bsky.social) from @sfu-fhs.bsky.social has released a new podcast, From Ceremony Up, that dives into conversations surrounding health, justice, and Indigeneity.
🎧: https://bit.ly/4mxg9vV
In this next Learning Series session from @bccfe.bsky.social, learn about the methodology, key findings, and legacy of the Positive Brain Health Now Study, ten years later.
Learn more and register here: buff.ly/P8jFCy3
#research #healthcare #healthresearch
💼 Looking for your next role in Vancouver life sciences?
Our feed features opportunities across biotech, academia, healthcare, and beyond.
👉 Subscribe and get jobs delivered to your inbox every Monday: https://bit.ly/4vrNlZH
A total of 43 Research Excellence Clusters led by UBC researchers are being supported in 2026/27 through the Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters.
Check out the UBC Medicine research clusters launching this year: https://bit.ly/4c2b4bf
🌱🧬 Genomics is helping reduce emissions in cannabis production.
A Genome BC-funded project with Dr. Marco Todesco UBC Science + Aurora Cannabis
identified genes controlling flowering 🌸—key to enabling outdoor growing in Canada.
#Genomics #ClimateAction #GenomeBC
📢 Applications for CDL-Vancouver 2026 are open!
If you’re a founder developing a science- or technology-based venture with the potential for massive scale, this is your chance to work with world-class mentors, entrepreneurs, investors, scientists, and more.
Apply now: https://bit.ly/4mdv3ai
Is the "relocation rule" real? 🧳
If you’re weighing a postdoc move, considering a faculty position, or thinking strategically about long-term independence, the latest episode of Lab Coats & Life™ Podcast offers a grounded and practical perspective. #GradLife
Drs. Sabrina Leslie and @xintang.bsky.social have been awarded funding through the 2026/27 Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters competition at UBC to launch a new research cluster that brings together advanced imaging and AI technologies.
Congratulations! https://bit.ly/4c0TUL2
It's #LongCOVID awareness month! Proud to announce a new project by FHS researchers to help improve education about Long Covid for patients and healthcare providers in #emergent and #UrgentCare settings in British Columbia.
www.sfu.ca/fhs/news-eve...
#SFU #SFUFHS #BC #QI #KM
Vancouver is March-ing towards success! 🥳
From coast-to-coast funding success to prestigious national awards, March was a standout month for the local science community.
Meet the researchers behind the breakthroughs, and check out our monthly award summary: https://bit.ly/47HjlPm
🎂 Happy 10th birthday to the Creative Destruction Lab-Vancouver!
Over the last decade they have been transforming groundbreaking research into ventures that improve lives and growing the BC economy in fields like biomedical engineering: https://bit.ly/4sLPYUs
🌟 Dr. David Huntsman from the BC Cancer Research Institute has been awarded the 2025 Rosalind Franklin Prize for Excellence in Ovarian Cancer Research by the Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance!
Congratulations on this well deserved recognition: https://bit.ly/3Qe9meb
To help make postpartum hemorrhage surgical training accessible, Dr. @estherchinmd.bsky.social and UBC’s Engineers in Scrubs created STITCH.
🏥 The device mimics the look and feel of a postpartum uterus and surrounding tissues, and can be used repeatedly to practice surgeries: https://bit.ly/3QbUHQH
Genome British Columbia
The Health Metadata Commons is a free hub that helps researchers discover existing human biological samples and omics data, making it easier to find resources and spark new collaborations.
👉 Explore the data: metadatacommons.ca
#HealthResearch #OpenScience
📣 Nice Genes! is in 3rd place and so close to joining the #Webbys Winners Circle. RT + VOTE: vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...
Three cheers for Dr. Clarus Leung and Dr. Natasha Lane from Providence Research!
They are the winners of the 2026 Carraresi Foundation Early Career Clinician Investigator Award. Learn more about their projects: https://bit.ly/4bHZZfo
Celebrate Research Day with Dr. Niranjan 'Tex' Kissoon with a Pediatric Grand Round session on making sepsis a global health success.
📅April 10 11:00 AM PDT📍Chan Centre or Zoom: shorturl.at/iB4xT
🤔 What happens when you remove microbes from the equation?
Researchers at the UBC GnotoCore are unlocking powerful insights into how the microbiome shapes immunity and disease.
🥳 Celebrate their first year with us and learn about their milestones in #gnotobiotic research: https://bit.ly/47tcIA5
Scientists from @sfuscience.bsky.social are embarking upon a new study to discover what makes some people more resilient to brain conditions such as #dementia.
🧠 Learn more about the 10-year Brain Resilience Study: https://bit.ly/3O0F9P6
Samuel Oguntimehin, Dr. Lars Kruse and the Bohlmann lab at UBC has successfully created a bioengineered version of the plant Nicotiana benthamiana to produce MbA, a potential new avenue for #diabetes treatment!
🪴Learn more: https://bit.ly/47lyZQc
Eight BC research teams have received a combined $8 million in federal + @genomebc.bsky.social funding towards academia-industry collaborations on research solutions that are implementation and market ready.
Congratulations to all researchers! https://bit.ly/47e3RCc
A new paper from @bcchresearch.bsky.social details how an 18-year-old patient with chronic granulomatous disease became the first person ever to receive and be cured by a gene modification treatment known as “Prime Editing.”
🧬 Learn more: https://bit.ly/4def752
Just a few days in simulated microgravity can subtly change the way women’s blood clots. 🌌 🚀
This research from @sfuscience.bsky.social has sparked bigger questions about health monitoring protocols for astronauts who can spend six months or more in orbit: https://bit.ly/4ruTUYd
In a ground breaking advancement, researchers have developed a novel binary self-amplifying expression platform capable of producing vaccines and nanomedicines without the need for LNPs.
Learn about the work of the Jefferies lab at UBC: https://bit.ly/47EHINk
A new study from Dr. Ewan Gibb and colleagues at the Vancouver Prostate Centre introduced a molecular classifier that leverages long non-coding RNA signatures to identify hidden biological risk within tumors that are clinically classified as low-grade.
📰 https://bit.ly/4cH0VS8
How do we grow the next generation of life science talent?
In the latest episode of Lab Coats & Life, Drs. Nicole Quinn and Jason Goldsmith talk with Dr. Rob Henderson about creating meaningful career pathways and supporting early-career scientists.
🎧 https://bit.ly/4unktkN
Despite major scientific progress, critical gaps in women’s health research remain. A new @genomebc.bsky.social initiative aims to change that with a $1.8M funding opportunity focused on using #genomics to improve women’s health and wellbeing.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/47ux6jZ
