THE LIFE SCIENCES INSTITUTE

The Life Sciences Institute (LSI) at UBC is the largest such institute in Canada and among the best by any metric. Our vision of the LSI is to maintain and improve on its international standing in basic life science research.

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LSI: Home to 17 Canada Research Chairs

Perfect human blood vessels in a petri dish

Novel discovery could lead to new cancer, autoimmune disease therapy – Work led by incoming LSI Director and PI, Dr Josef Penninger

Arrhythmia mutations in calmodulin cause conformational changes that affect interactions with the cardiac voltage-gated calcium channel | Dr Filip van Petegem