🍁📣Don’t miss the fist session in the Patient Voices in Research Initiative Seminar Series!🍁📣
This 4-part series features projects funded through our Patient Voices in Research Initiative, a funding program fully governed by cancer patients for cancer patients.
🔗 Register now! tinyurl.com/52f9nw7a
Congratulations to Dr. Darlene Dai, Dr. Stuart Turvey and Dr. Charisse Petersen on the study!
@turveylab.bsky.social
New research from BCCHR, uses longitudinal data from the CHILD Cohort Study, to show that breastfeeding acts as a shield, protecting the infant microbiota from many different exposures well into early childhood. The impact is especially clear among children from lower socioeconomic status.
⏰ GAPP deadline at 11:59 pm
🧬 BC researchers — don’t miss your chance to partner with industry and turn genomics into real-world impact.
📝LOI due: April 13 at 11:59pm
🔗 www.genomebc.ca/funding-opportunity/geno...
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
A flyer for Menopause Hormone Therapy, Understanding the Basics. A free lecture given by Dr, Jen Gunter on March 31, 5-6 pm Pacific. There is a QR code in the flyer.
I am giving a free webinar on menopause hormone therapy, sponsored by BC Women's Hospital, on Tuesday, March 31. Hope you can join me! zoom.us/webinar/regi...
The Health Metadata Commons, a Genome BC initiative, is a free hub for health research metadata. Find omics data or biobank samples faster, share your own data, boost impact and spark collaborations.
👉 metadatacommons.ca
#MetadataCommons #HealthData #OpenScience #HealthResearch #Biobanking
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
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
Congratulations to Dr. Samantha Pollard and all the winners of the Terry Fox New Investigator Awardees!
BC researchers are receiving $8M in federal funding to fast-track genomic solutions 🧬
8 teams will advance real-world projects, from pathogen detection to improved care for cancer, Type 1 diabetes and endometriosis.
Part of a $20M Genome Canada GAPP investment.
📖: https://tinyurl.com/29kchrhs
Construction is well underway on the new centre for health complexity at BC Children's Hospital, a first-of-its-kind facility in Canada. 🏗️
This new centre will help connect families across BC with the services, & care they need. The project is on budget & on track to open in early 2028.
🥳 @terryfoxresearch.bsky.social has joined forces with CIHR and partners to advance cancer prevention through a groundbreaking new funding initiative.
Congratulations to the awardees from BC: Drs. Gina Ogilvie, Inna Sekirov, Isabella Tai, and Citlali Marquez: https://bit.ly/3P87Nhp
On #CMAJPodcasts, Drs. Megan Cooney and Matthew Carwana discuss how the TEN‑4‑FACESp rule helps identify bruising patterns concerning for physical abuse, and what pandemic-era hospitalization trends reveal about the severity of maltreatment in infants and toddlers.
➡️ www.cmaj.ca/transcript-251219
Fantastic interview with Ty Sperle and BCCHR's Dr Stuart Turvey (@turveylab.bsky.social) on a successful gene treatment for a rare immune disorder on The Current with Matt Galloway this morning.
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
Great to talk with Matt Galloway on CBC The Current this morning about successful gene therapy for a human immune defect.
The Current with Matt Galloway - March 9, 2026: How a gene edit gave a B.C teen his life back.
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
@mattgalloway.bsky.social @bcchresearch.bsky.social
Congratulations!
The figure shows gene expression analysis of unsorted, CD49 sorted and CD19 sorted SCβ-cells using NanoString analysis.
Luo Ting Huang, Yaser Tahamtani, @nictitate.bsky.social & co explored the possibility of magnetic selection of insulin-expressing stem cell‑derived β‑cells using a CRISPR/Cas9 technology and transmembrane glycoprotein CD19 as a marker.
@bcchresearch.bsky.social
Read: doi.org/10.1242/dmm....
In a world first, B.C. teen cured of rare disease through gene editing treatment. Ty Sperle cured of chronic granulomatous disease with a treatment known as “prime editing,” by Brenna Owen www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/briti... via @theglobeandmail.com
Ty Sperle says he felt "insane shock" after learning he'd been cured of a rare genetic disease through a clinical trial using a new gene-editing treatment.
Elakkiya presented her research at the Healthy Starts Research Day 2026! She also received the best poster presentation award. Congratulations Elakkiya 🎉
Man cured of rare disease in world-first for a new gene-editing technology.
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
Canada’s first-ever pan-Canadian clinical trial—DECRYPT-BABYBRAIN—is pioneering a radiation-free approach to treat rare and aggressive brain tumours in infants and young children.
Dr. Sylvia Cheng is one of the lead investigator at @bcchresearch.bsky.social for the trial.
🖇️ https://bit.ly/4rdcu7K
What happens after a child survives sepsis?
AoS member Dr. Matthew Wiens and colleagues are leading the first Canadian Horizon Europe Pillar 2 project to reduce post-discharge childhood sepsis deaths.
🔗Read the full story by @bcchresearch.bsky.social here: shorturl.at/V2FDX
Figure showing CD19Δ‑mScarlet localization and expression. (A) Flow cytometry dot plots of HEK293 cells 72 hours after transfection with CD19Δ‑mScarlet constructs, comparing untransfected control, construct with 2A, and without 2A; right panel shows a bar graph quantifying the percentage of mScarlet⁺CD19⁺ cells. (B) Flow cytometry of d25 SCβ‑cells showing unstained, surface‑stained, and surface plus intracellular CD19 staining, with a bar graph of CD19⁺ percentages. (C) Immunofluorescence images of stage 6 d25 SCβ‑cell clusters showing DAPI‑stained nuclei (blue), insulin (green), and CD19Δ‑mScarlet (red), including two magnified insets highlighting red fluorescence at the cell surface.
This new paper from Luo Ting Huang, @nictitate.bsky.social & co @bcchresearch.bsky.social used genetic engineering to facilitate magnetic-activated cell sorting enrichment of insulin-producing stem cell-derived β cells with implications for cell-replacement therapy
doi.org/10.1242/dmm....
A team led by @bcchresearch.bsky.social 's Dr. Matthew Wiens has been awarded €5 million in Horizon Europe funding to improve community-based care for children after hospital discharge in Uganda and Kenya.
The goal of reducing deaths from severe infections like #sepsis: https://bit.ly/4r1T31L
Registration is now open for the eleventh annual Women’s Health Research Symposium!
Join us on Friday, March 6th, 2026, in-person at the Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre on the UBC campus or virtually via live-stream.
Learn more and register today: whri.org/eleventh-ann...)
As we close out #CervicalCancerAwarenessMonth, we spoke with Amy Booth to share which areas of cervical cancer research she is interested in exploring in 2026.
Learn more: linktr.ee/womensresearch
#MedSky
ICYMI: Our Director Dr. Shelina Babul breaks down five concussion myths in this Q&A by @ubcmedicine.bsky.social:
Embracing Risky Play at Schools with Dr. Mariana Brussoni | Teach Outdoors podcast with Lauren MacLean
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAX2... via www.youtube.com/@TeachOutdoors
