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Congratulations to LSI PIs receiving 2024 MSHRBC Scholar Awards!

LSI researchers awarded funding through Spring 2024 CIHR Project Grant competition

LSI researchers awarded over $9.3 million in CFI infrastructure funding

LSI Postdoctoral Researchers awarded the CIHR REDI Early Career Transition Award

Pioneering technology to simulate blood vessel networks in organ-on-chip models

5th Annual Canadian Metabolomics Conference: Integrating Metabolomics with Other Omics

LSI researchers awarded funding through Fall 2023 CIHR Project Grant competition

CBR/LSI Summer Studentship Program 2024

Dr. Kayla King named Canada Excellence Research Chair

Dr. Pieter Cullis selected for induction into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame

Congratulations to LSI researchers awarded funding through the Spring 2023 CIHR Project Grant competition!

PhD student Sasha McDowell receives 2022 Brain Star Award

Dr. Pieter Cullis elected as Fellow of the Royal Society

Dr. Jayachandran Kizhakkedathu to lead new NSERC CREATE program

Dr. Cara Haney awarded a 2022 Killam Faculty Research Fellowship

Dr. Pieter Cullis awarded a 2023 Killam Prize

Muscle health depends on lipid synthesis

Dr. Michel Roberge on researching treatment of genetic diseases: to us, every day is Rare Disease Day

Six Faculty Positions at UBC in Biological Resilience 

Sex Differences in Islet Stress Responses Support Female β Cell Resilience

Eight LSI researchers awarded funding through Fall 2022 CIHR project grant competition

Osteoporosis drug shows promise as life-saving breast cancer treatment

Dr. Christopher Overall receives 2022 John McNeill Excellence in Health Research Mentorship Award

Dr. Natalie Strynadka appointed to University Killam Professor

Dr. Tim Kieffer receives funding through the JDRF-CIHR Partnership to Defeat Diabetes

Dr. Elizabeth Rideout wins 2022 End Diabetes research award

B.C. sea sponge has COVID-blocking powers

Av-Gay Lab identifies infection-halting compound, broadly effective from COVID-19 to the common cold

LSI/CBR scientists recognized with community awards for impact on advancing organ transplantation research

Three LSI Cores receive UBC Research Facilities Support Grants

Seeing the impacts of cleft palate on children and families leads dentist to pursue orofacial research

Doctoral students awarded Canada Graduate Scholarships for 2022

Three LSI researchers named Canada Research Chairs

Stem cells help Type-1 diabetes patients produce insulin

HUSHing repetitive-like elements contributes to normal brain development and function

Cembrowski lab profiled in Nature Methods story on Patch-seq

Annika Schulz wins award in Bioimaging North America’s 2022 contest

LSI 2021-22 Annual Report released

Joint LSI-Microbiology & Immunology bake sale a success

Dr. Christopher Overall receives 2022 Helmut Holzer Award

Dr. Pieter Cullis becomes a laureate at the Gairdner 2022 Awards Gala

Dr. Lisa Osborne featured by Canadian Society for Immunology during Women’s History Month

LSI researchers receive federal support to advance mRNA vaccine technologies

Guar Gum, a type of dietary fiber, eases MS severity in mouse model

Dr. Pieter Cullis wins 2022 Bloom Burton Award

The UBC Intergenerational March to Commemorate Orange Shirt Day – an interview with Dana-Lyn Mackenzie

COVID-19 driven IgA autoimmune assault on lung surface proteins predictive of severe outcomes

Dr. Armando Alcazar receives Emerging Leader Award from the Metabolomics Association of North America

2022 Michael Smith Health Research BC awardees announced

Old drugs hint at new ways to beat chronic pain

Dr. Reini Kappelhoff’s sustainability efforts featured in UBC News story on glove recycling initiatives

Receptor FIBCD1 newly identified in neurodevelopmental disorders

New CoVarRR-Net funding supports LSI research in new and emerging treatments for SARS-CoV-2 infection

UK and European heat wave’s impacts on bees prompts Newsweek to interview Dr. Alison McAfee

LSI researchers draw more than $8M in CIHR Spring 2022 Project Grants

GlycoNet funding supports UBC startup ABOzymes in becoming a world leader in blood type antigen conversion

LSI Imaging Contest opens

Dr. Pieter Cullis to receive Life Sciences BC’s 2022 Global Impact Award

Dr. Lisa Osborne wins funding for two projects from Scialog’s Microbiome, Neurobiology and Disease competition

New process developed by LSI researchers turns pulp industry waste wood into plastic products

Learning at risk with shortage of donated cadavers, Dr. Edwin Moore tells Global News Hour

How flies lay off the extra salty snacks

Dr. Jayachandran Kizhakkedathu receives 2022 Faculty of Medicine Distinguished Achievement Award

Dr. Alison McAfee selected as UNESCO/L’Oréal Women in Science Rising Talent

BC honey bee colonies decline 32% over winter – Dr. Leonard Foster comments on higher than normal losses

Dr. Pieter Cullis awarded 2022 Tang Prize for contributions to COVID-19 mRNA vaccines

LSI study named a top paper in 2021 edition of “Best of Cell Stem Cell”

The LSI becomes a GREx: announcing the launch of the Biological Resilience Initiative

Experts debate whether hyperinsulinemia is the primary defect that causes type 2 diabetes

Dr. Dana Devine elected as incoming president of Biomedical Excellence for Safer Transfusion

Two LSI researchers funded by Cystic Fibrosis Canada in competition shaped by patient priorities

Dr. Reinhild Kappelhoff champions lab sustainability with glove and mask recycling project

Dr. Leonard Foster receives Tony Pawson Proteomics award

UBC recruits new SBME faculty – meet Dr. Govind Kaigala

Science Magazine features Dr. Pieter Cullis in a story on next-generation mRNA vaccines

New UBC Immunotherapeutics Research Excellence Cluster launches

Dr. Sheila Teves receives project funding from Canada’s Stem Cell Network

Laboratory-generated mini-kidneys help understand link between diabetes and severe COVID-19

Three LSI researchers receive 2021 Brain Star Awards

Fruit flies’ fondness for sour flavours provides insights on the complex neurobiology of taste

What drives fruit flies to binge on fructose? What makes them stop?

Dr. Jessica Rosin receives a 2021 Brain Star Award

MSc grad Nicole Wang from the Haney lab awarded a Governor General’s Gold Medal

A bacteriological tour of northern British Columbia uncovers thermostable ligninases

How a common virus might trigger multiple sclerosis

What are your mentorship practices? An interview with Killam Awardees for Excellence in Mentoring

UBC team discovers ‘silver bullet’ to keep medical devices free of bacteria

Lipid Nanoparticle Team receives 2022 Governor General’s Innovation Award

A hot spot for mutations linked to heart failure where Junctophilin meets voltage-gated calcium channel

From forestry waste product to valuable biomass – LSI science and lignin’s valorization journey

Returning to the science amidst personal turmoil: Ukrainian trainees describe their “new normal”

Dr. Michael Gordon awarded a 2021/22 Killam Teaching Prize

Dr. Leonard Foster receives 2022 Distinguished Service Award from Youth Science Canada

Dr. Pieter Cullis awarded Camurus Lipid Science Prize

Dr. Pieter Cullis named 2022 Canada Gairdner Award laureate

How does translational control impact neurodevelopment and reproductive potential?

Insulin resistance–obesity–hyperinsulinemia–which comes first and what causes what?

New nasal spray treats Delta variant infection in mice, indicating broad spectrum results

World TB Day 2022 urges investment to save lives and put an end to the “other pandemic”

Lay Science Writing Competition Winner: What does it take to make a life-saving drug?

Why organoids are playing a growing role in medical research – University Affairs’ reporter Diane Peters explores

LSI Bake Sale for Ukraine nets more than $5K for relief work

Honey bee colony collapse could mean food insecurity – genomic tools will help support better mite resistance

Dr. Carolina Tropini receives a Human Frontier Organization Early Career Grant and is interviewed by R2R

How does signaling among different types of immune cells impact embryonic development?

Fundamental studies on protein nanomachines provide molecular insights into rare diseases

The PhD candidate behind the 2021 UBC Science Excellence in Service Award

Developing a breakthrough treatment to improve quality of life for people living with spinal cord injuries

Male bees can’t hack extreme stress like females can

Creating universal blood-type organs for transplant

Dr. Joanne Weinberg comments on in utero alcohol exposure: new tools for a difficult diagnosis

Futuristic coating for hospital fabrics and activewear kills COVID virus and E. coli

LSI and SBME researchers receive prestigious Allen Distinguished Investigator Award for groundbreaking work in human stem cells

Six LSI labs funded in CIHR Fall 2021 round

LSI core facility helps accelerate sustainable mining practices

New mouse model developed for research into COVID-19

Dr. Pieter Cullis and colleagues win VinFuture Foundation’s first global sci-tech award

UBC researchers to lead $24M grant to treat spinal cord injury

Dr. Pieter Cullis appointed an Officer to the Order of Canada

Virginie Jean-Baptiste named first recipient of the Julia Levy Fellowship Award

LSI research plays an important role in new UBC JDRF Centre of Excellence in Type 1 diabetes

Stem cell-based treatment produces insulin in patients with Type 1 diabetes

Researchers’ efforts to screen billions of antiviral drugs to find potential COVID-19 treatments relies on AI

LSI researchers receive Diabetes Team Funding commemorating 100 years of insulin

Dr. Carolina Tropini on microbiota, gut health and precision medicine and implications for human health

Support for Indigenous, Black and People of Colour through mentorship and community

Dr. Alison McAfee awarded L’Oréal-UNESCO 2021 Excellence in Research Fellowship

Protecting your gut feelings: How intestinal infections keep things moving

New target for treatment identified for Tuberculosis prompts interest from Swedish biotech startup

Three LSI trainees win 2021 BC Diabetes Research Network Awards

Developing new drugs for superbugs like MRSA

Dr. Pieter Cullis and colleagues receive the “Nobel of Thailand” – the Prince Mahidol Award

UBC team wins gold medal at iGEM international competition with tumor biosensor project

UBC researchers investigate a novel aerosol treatment to stop the virus from replicating and limit progression of the disease

Heatwaves like ‘the Blob’ could decrease role of ocean as carbon sink

Dr. Moritz Koch wins 2021 Klaus Tschira Foundation KlarText award

Does Parkinson’s start in the nose? International team awarded US$9 million ASAP grant to find out

UBC-led researchers uncover how the novel coronavirus escapes a cell’s antiviral defenses

A call for inclusion: taking both sexes into account strengthens science

Potential COVID-19 treatment delivered via nebulizer being tested in Phase 1 trial

Novel molecular insights into transporter gene important steps toward therapies for untreatable form of vision loss

Canadian Society for Immunology highlights the work of Dr. Pauline Johnson for Women’s History Month 2021

Dr. Sanne Janssen wins a Bluma Tischler Postdoctoral Fellowship

Multifaceted approach in Cembrowski lab provides insight on spatial memory – a key concern in Alzheimer’s patients

Dr. Pieter Cullis featured in Nature story on pivotal contributions to mRNA vaccines for COVID-19

ViaCyte appoints Dr. Timothy Kieffer as Chief Scientific Officer

LSI researchers receive scholar and trainee awards in latest round of Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research funding

Difficulty finding mentors within the LGBTQ2S+ STEM community spurs creation of an online platform

Mind your handprints – climate action goes beyond reducing your carbon footprint

Dr. Jen Nguyen wins a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

Sarah Erwin wins a Cordula and Gunter Paetzold Fellowship for work on spatial working memory

A vision for the future of microbiome research from the Tropini lab

LSI Annual Report 2020-2021

UBC team receives funding to profile biological properties of SARS-CoV-2 VoCs and evaluate their susceptibility to therapeutics

SBME Interfaces with Dr. Shernaz Bamji

Neutralizing SARS-CoV-2’s sugar coat a promising direction for COVID-19 therapeutics

Innovative coating for blood vessels reduces rejection of transplanted organs

Two LSI PIs named 2021 Faculty of Medicine Distinguished Achievement Award recipients

A reflection on the progression to type 2 diabetes and the debate about causality

Six LSI research teams awarded more than $5.5 M through Spring Project Grant competition

Blood vessel organoids research from Penninger lab to play central role in 100 years of Insulin UK-Canada Team Grant research

Four Cembrowski Lab trainees win DMCBH 2021 Endowment Awards

Dr. Ania Bogoslowski named a 2021-22 Banting Fellow

Calem Kenward wins 2021/22 Killam Doctoral Award

Not all acids are equally sour: Gordon lab research sheds light on why fruit flies find lactic acid a delight

Dr. Sheila Teves writes for Science Magazine about being an academic with immigrant working-class roots

Enhancing the understanding of how diseases occur in one organ but not another

The long and winding code: Dr. Josef Penninger discusses what a CRISPR platform could do for science at UBC

UBC’s Beyond features Dr. Pieter Cullis and UBC-grown biotech companies

Dr. Carolina Tropini team wins funding in 1st year of Scialog: Microbiome, Neurobiology and Disease competition

Dr. Linda Partridge presents 17th Copp Lecture on mTORC1, aging and the gut

Opinion: Why being a scientist-activist might be part of your job after all

Three LSI researchers awarded NSERC Discovery Grants in latest round

Dr. Shernaz Bamji testifies before the House Standing Committee on Health

Dr. Pieter Cullis talks lipid nanoparticles and vaccines of the future on CBC Radio’s Quirks & Quarks

Ginny Pichler receives a 2021 Friedman Award for Scholars in Health

Blue & Goldcast profiles researchers’ new platform technology and biosensor and its use as a COVID-19 diagnostic tool

Dr. Shernaz Bamji appointed President of the Canadian Association for Neuroscience

Dr. Jen Nguyen wins Killam Award Fellowship for post-doctoral research in Tropini lab

Stem Cell Network celebrates 20th anniversary with a profile of Dr. Tim Kieffer

The accessibility of English as the universal language of science

Exploring UBC’s Climate Action Plan 2030: what does it mean for the LSI?

Dr. François Jean and international team identify a new and promising treatment for COVID-19 and variants

Covid-19 vaccines have triggered the next wave of pharmaceuticals – Dr. Pieter Cullis

Lectins’ dance about the SARS-COV-2 spike protein points to potential for new COVID-19 therapeutics

UBC-grown biotech companies lead global pandemic efforts

UBC Green Labs, the Life Sciences Centre and SPUD divert hundred of gel ice packs from the landfill

Cloud computing support accelerates COVID-19 vaccine improvements

Honouring Dr. Ed Conway: A Symposium on Blood and Blood-Related Disorders

UBC-led team captures first-ever X-ray images of critical SARS-COV-2 enzyme in action

Hallam Lab fellow Moritz Koch provokes cyanobacteria to produce large amounts of bioplastic

Alongside COVID-19, the clock is ticking on a syndemic partner: the global TB epidemic

Priye Iworima’s PhD work focuses on improving quality of life for diabetics

Dr. Karen Cheung elected as a fellow by the American Institute for Biological Engineering

Canada’s health security depends on increased support for high-risk, high-reward scientific research: Op Ed

LSI spinoff company Precision Nanosystems to build $50M biomanufacturing facility in Vancouver region

Nine grants to 13 LSI labs in CIHR Fall 2020 funding round

The journey behind Kaiso and the future ahead – a conversation with Dr. Juliet Daniel

Dr. Ed Pryzdial’s research on blood clotting can aid understanding of many disorders, including COVID-19

Penninger trial drug highlighted as promising COVID-19 treatment option in national roundup

Dr. Natalie Strynadka at the forefront of the fight against COVID-19 with two Rapid Response Grants focusing on potential treatments

Filip Van Petegem leads Nature Communications study showing disease mutant causes large changes in the structure of the RyR1 protein

As an Allen Distinguished Investigator Dr. Carolina Tropini to tackle unanswered questions about metabolism and the immune system

Dr. Claudia Krebs named as Fellow for the American Association for Anatomy

Dr. Jayachandran Kizhakkedathu Inducted as a Fellow, Biomaterials Science and Engineering

Rideout lab discovers the molecular mechanism of a sex difference in food-related changes to body size

UBC Today profiles Dr. Mark Cembrowski

Dr. Dana Devine takes the helm at the Centre for Blood Research

Aryannah Rollinson featured on Faculty of Medicine Staff Spotlight

Radical and elegant gene transcription findings overturn existing theory on histone acetylation

New research highlights the importance of a forgotten organ in ensuring healthy pregnancies

Dr. Elitza Tocheva’s post-doctoral research becomes part of an innovative atlas of the cell

Dr. Joy Richman receives National Dental Research Award from CADR-ACFD

Super-resolution microscopy and deep learning identify nuances of Zika virus replication

Dr. Leonard Foster featured in Killam Trust video series portraying 2019 awardees

Dr. Dermot Kelleher re-appointed as UBC Vice-President of Health

Dr. Rachel Fernandez appointed UBC Associate Vice-President, Research and Innovation

Mapping the journey to the draft human proteome

Dr. James Johnson appointed Deputy Director of the LSI

Federal government and partners invest $6 million in diabetes research

Atomic blueprints provide valuable support in design of mechanism-based antivirals to combat COVID-19

LSI and Swiss researchers discover antibodies may trigger autoimmunity in severe COVID-19

LSI spinoff company the source of technology Pfizer’s mRNA COVID-19 vaccine ‘can’t work without’

Panel discussion and screening of “Picture a Scientist” Nov 27, 4-5 pm

Mark Cembrowski named a 2019 Azrieli Foundation Future Leader in Canadian Brain Research

New analysis challenges long-held assumptions about paternal DNA methylation in the first stages of life

Natalie Strynadka receives CFI infrastructure funding for COVID-19 project

Prime Minister announces LSI spinoff to receive funding to develop an RNA Vaccine for COVID-19

Save the Date: a celebration of Dr. Susanne Clee and her contributions to research

UBC researcher helps map the human proteome

Sex-based differences in methylation so striking – male and female germ cells could originate from different species

Characterization of alkylguaiacol-degrading cytochromes P450 for the biocatalytic valorization of lignin

The Cajal Club inducts Dr. Mark Cembrowski as a member, celebrating his research with one of the top awards in neuroscience

A conversation with Professor Josef Penninger on the journey to a COVID-19 therapeutic

The Lancet publishes promising data from UBC-led trial of drug used to treat COVID-19 in special access case

Streptomyces like you’ve never seen it: cryo-electron tomography reveals ultrastructure in new Tocheva lab study

Insecticide study sheds light on the structure of its receptor, pointing the way to more benign pest control and potential heart treatments

Annual Day of Immunology a Science Literacy Success Story

Bioprinted therapeutic offers novel solution for treating Type 1 Diabetes

New findings from Brown lab on independent recruitment of PRC1 and PRC2 by human XIST

Carolina Tropini’s work in microbial diversity in the gut featured in the Vancouver Sun

CBR’s Stefanie Mak recognized for mentorship excellence

Penninger lab uncovers essential role of JAGN1 gene in antibody production

Lianna Wat sweeps CIHR gold, a Gairdner and is going to the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings

Van Petegem lab sheds light on implications of STAC3 mutations in muscular disorder

Postdoctoral Fellow Alison Li will bring a Michael Smith Research Trainee Award to Van Petegem lab

Mark Cembrowski and Kenji Sugioka each win 2020 Michael Smith Scholar Awards

Insights into the mechanisms that control blood development and immune response

The Biomolecular Corona of Lipid Nanoparticles for Gene Therapy: a review

Post-doctoral fellowship in Cembrowski lab a “lucky and perfect fit” for Walter Benjamin award winner