Dr. Pieter Cullis elected as Fellow of the Royal Society
Dr. Pieter Cullis OC (Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology) is among 80 outstanding scientists from around the world elected as the newest Fellows of the Royal Society. The […]
Dr. Jayachandran Kizhakkedathu to lead new NSERC CREATE program
The LSI’s Dr. Jayachandran Kizhakkedathu (Professor, Dept. of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine) has been awarded $1.65 million over 6 years to lead one of five new Collaborative Research and Training […]
Dr. Cara Haney awarded a 2022 Killam Faculty Research Fellowship
Dr. Cara Haney (Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology, Faculty of Science) has been awarded a 2022 UBC Killam Faculty Research Fellowship, which supports promising faculty members engaged in research projects […]
Dr. Pieter Cullis awarded a 2023 Killam Prize
Dr. Pieter Cullis (Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine) is one of two UBC faculty awarded a 2023 Killam Prize, administered by the National Research Council of […]
Muscle health depends on lipid synthesis
Muscle degeneration, the most prevalent cause of frailty in hereditary diseases and aging, could be caused by a deficiency in one key enzyme in a lipid biosynthesis pathway. Research led […]
Dr. Michel Roberge on researching treatment of genetic diseases: to us, every day is Rare Disease Day
This story was originally published in Feb 2020 A specialist in chemical biology and drug discovery, Dr. Michel Roberge (now retired) co-founded the Centre for Drug Research and Development in […]
Six Faculty Positions at UBC in Biological Resilience
Multi Career-stage, Diversity Cluster Hire The Life Sciences Institute’s (LSI) recent designation as a Global Research Excellence Institute at the University of British Columbia (UBC), prompted the launch of the […]
Sex Differences in Islet Stress Responses Support Female β Cell Resilience
This week Science in Vancouver profiled a recent publication in Molecular Metabolism from the labs of Drs. Elizabeth Rideout and James Johnson at UBC, with first author George Brownrigg. This article […]
Eight LSI researchers awarded funding through Fall 2022 CIHR project grant competition
Congratulations to the successful applicants in the CIHR Fall 2022 Project Grant competition! Listed below are the LSI-based PIs on the six funded projects. These include one bridge grant and one […]
Osteoporosis drug shows promise as life-saving breast cancer treatment
Research by Dr. Josef Penninger lays groundwork for treatment that promotes disease-free survival in breast cancer patients and markedly improves quality of life A drug originally designed to prevent osteoporosis […]