How a common virus might trigger multiple sclerosis | Dr Marc Horwitz
“Marc Steven Horwitz explains the connection between mononucleosis, aka ‘mono,’ and multiple sclerosis. Reducing the presence of the virus in the body might diminish MS relapses.” Read the article here, as featured in UBC Science Connect. Photo: Flickr, Ed Uthman.
Meet & Greet Dr. Josef Penninger
You are invited for an informal meet and greet reception with Dr. Josef Penninger, the incoming Director of the Life Sciences Institute. Event Date: Friday, March 23, 2018 Time: 3:45PM-4:30PM Location: LSI Faculty Lounge RSVP
CIHR Project Grant Competition Funded Projects, Fall 2017
Congratulations to our LSI PIs who were funded in the Fall 2017 CIHR Project Grant Competition. CD127 in the development and function of Type 2 Innate Lymphoid Cells (ILC2s) Principal Investigator: Ninan Abraham Co-Investigator: Fumio Takei Amount awarded: $1,036,575 The protection of the airway lining is extremely important since it is a single cell layer […]
Heartfelt Images: learning cardiac science artistically.
Student-generated art demonstrates a high level of content/process understanding, illustrated by scientific detail, integration of form & function, use of metaphor and word-play. Click here for link to publication by Dr Carol Ann Courneya in the Journal of Medical Humanities The Heartfelt Images are displayed within the Life Sciences Institute, within the 1st floor […]
Startup Competition 2017 Business Plans
Curos Labs Business plan 2017 EEGlewave Business Plan 2017 Epilab Business Plan 2017 Jooles Business Plan 2017 MIT Healthcare Business Plan 2017 NeuraGap Business Plan 2017 Okussa Medical Business Plan 2017 Rejuvagen Business Plan 2017 Tesseract Technologies Business Plan 2017 TheraTrix Business Plan 2017 Torq Business Plan 2017
Bringing the ASCB to the LSI
Dr. Eric Betzig is an American physicist based at the Janelia Farm Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia. He has worked to develop the field of fluorescence microscopy and photoactivated localization microscopy. He was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for “the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy”, along with Stefan Hell and fellow Cornell alumnus […]
Business Model Canvas Workshop – Interactive Case Study
Part of the Life Sciences Startup Competition 2017 Workshop Series Date/Time: Monday, November 7, 2016 12 – 1:30 pm Location: LSC 1330 – Life Sciences Centre, 2350 Health Sciences Mall This workshop is free and open to all No need to RSVP Pizza lunch provided Demystify the Start-up Experience It can feel overwhelming when you […]
Intellectual Property – Patents Workshop
Part of the Life Sciences Startup Competition 2017 Workshop Series Date/Time: Wednesday, October 19, 2016 12 – 1:30 pm Location: LSC 1330 – Life Sciences Centre, 2350 Health Sciences Mall This workshop is free and open to all No need to RSVP Pizza lunch provided Presenters: Roger Kuypers, Partner, Fasken Martineau Kuypers is a partner in the Technology […]
Dr. Brendan Byrne, Chief Innovation Officer at TELUS Health
Please note: Feburary 20 talk has been cancelled and will be rescheduled to a later date The LSI is proud to announce our next guest at the Entrepreneurial Speaker Series, Dr. Brendan Byrne, Chief Innovation Officer at TELUS Health. Dr. Byrne studied Neurobiology at Yale and got his medical degree from McGill. As a family physician, […]
GEEK-O 2016
The 2016 Edition of the Annual Geek Olympiad of the Life Sciences Institute Graduate Students Association (LSI GSA) was held Friday, October 7, 2016 Who says scientists don’t know how to have a good time! Read more