Dr. Anshula Ambasta, Michael Smith Health Research BC – Health Professional-Investigator Award
Congratulations to Dr. Anshula Ambasta who was awarded a Michael Smith Health Research BC Health Professional-Investigator Award to support her research focussed on Re-purposing the ordering of ‘routine’ laboratory tests in hospitalized medical patients (RePORT) Blood tests can help diagnose diseases and monitor health status. However, overuse of blood testing, particularly in hospitals, leads to […]
Dr. Wade Thompson, Michael Smith Health Research BC – Health Professional-Investigator Award
Congratulations to Dr. Wade Thompson who was awarded a Michael Smith Health Research BC Health Professional-Investigator Award to support his research focused on Making medications fit for older adults: advancing the science and implementation of deprescribing guidelines. As people age, they can end up taking many medications. Certain medications might have made sense when they […]
Congratulations to Daniel Shirvani and Katherine Feng, BSc Pharmacology students on being awarded UBC’s Wesbrook Scholar Awards for 2022/2023
We would like to congratulate two of our BSc Pharmacology students who have just being awarded UBC’s Wesbrook Scholar Awards (2022-23). “The Premier Undergraduate Scholarships and Wesbrook Scholars are UBC’s most prestigious designations given to senior students with outstanding academic performance, leadership, and involvement in student and community activities. Awards range from 20 Wesbrook Scholar designations each worth […]
Congratulations to Dr. Pascal Bernatchez and team on renewal of their UBC Research Excellence Cluster
Congratulations to Dr. Pascal Bernatchez and team on the successful renewal of their University of British Columbia Research Excellence Cluster – The UBC Advanced Angiotensin Therapeutics Network. Initially funding in 2022/2023 as a new emerging cluster, this unit has now been renewed. Research Excellence Clusters are interdisciplinary networks of researchers addressing societal and cultural problems, […]
Congratulations to Dr. Mark Ansermino and team on renewal of their UBC Research Excellence Cluster
Congratulations to Dr. Mark Ansermino and team on the successful renewal of their University of British Columbia Research Excellence Cluster – Action in Sepsis. Initially funding in 2020/2021 as a new emerging cluster, this unit has now been renewed for an additional 2 year period as an Established Cluster. Research Excellence Clusters are interdisciplinary networks […]
Fatemeh Aminazadeh, PhD student awarded a 1 year Canadian Lung Association / CIHR Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health Research Studentship
Congratulations to Fatemeh Aminazadeh (PhD student in Dr. Tillie-Louise Hackett’s laboratory) who was awarded a 1 year Canadian Lung Association / CIHR Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health Research Studentship to support her research project entitled “The contribution of sex differences to small airways disease in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)”.
Dr. Gillian Goobie, MD, PhD, FRCPC -Postdoctoral Fellow awarded a 1 year Canadian Lung Association Post-doctoral Fellowship
Congratulations to Dr. Gillian Goobie (Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. Tillie-Louise Hackett’s laboratory) who was awarded a 1 year Canadian Lung Association Post-doctoral Fellowship to support her research project entitled “Air pollution as a modulator of molecular, structural and clinical outcomes in patients with fibrotic interstitial lung disease ” A lay summary can be found – […]
Dr. Gillian Goobie, MD, PhD, FRCPC -Postdoctoral Fellow awarded a 3 year Michael Smith Health Research BC Health Research Fellowship (2022)
Congratulations to Dr. Gillian Goobie (Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. Tillie-Louise Hackett’s laboratory) who was awarded a 3 year Michael Smith Health Research BC Health Fellowship to support her research project entitled “Air pollution as a modulator of molecular, structural and clinical outcomes in patients with fibrotic interstitial lung disease ” A lay summary can be […]
Dr. Matthew Wiens awarded a 5 year Canadian Institutes of Health Research Project Grant
Congratulations to Dr. Matthew Wiens, Assistant Professor who was recently awarded a 5 year Canadian Institutes of Health Project Grant valued at $1,526.175 to support his research project entitled “Smart Discharges in children over 5: Expanding a personalized public health approach to improving discharge care in resource limited settings” A lay summary: In resource-limited countries, […]
UBC Anesthesiology Residency Program CaRMS Info Session – December 08, 2022
Video recording can be found here.