Dr. Norman Bethune’s contributions to the concepts of medical care and social responsibility have left a worthy legacy throughout the world. The CBR is proud to participate by hosting this annual symposium.  On April 17, 2013, over 150 people gathered at the SFU Harbour Centre to share and to learn. It was a great event! [...]

Sung-Hye began her position as the Center for Blood Research (CBR) fermentation facility manager in September of 2006 when the facility opened at the Life Sciences Institute (LSI) building. She designed and constructed the facility with the help of UBC Plant Ops as well as the Workshop Facility at LSI. In total, she installed seven [...]

Since Hemophilias A and B are bleeding disorders carried by females and manifest in males, we don’t often think of women suffering from hemophilia. However, Ryanne Radford is a young woman with severe hemophilia due to severe factor V deficiency. Ryanne was kind enough to tell Ed Conway, the Director of the CBR, her story [...]

Astute observations by the curiosity-driven Dr. Christian Kastrup led him and his colleagues to a discovery, based on the mussel’s ability to stick to rocks and the hulls of boats, that may endow diseased blood vessels with unique protective properties. As Dr. Kastrup and his colleagues from M.I.T. described in the journal PNAS (Early Edition, [...]

November 13, 2012 marked the 6th Annual Earl W. Davie Symposium, hosted by the CBR and sponsored by Novo Nordisk. It was a memorable event, with over 200 attendees, a range of entertaining and stimulating speakers, excellent posters, delicious food and fine wine. Arguably, one of the major discoveries in medicine in the latter half [...]

We congratulate longtime CBR member, Dr. Robert (Bob) Hancock, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at UBC and a holder of a Canada Research Chair in Microbiology, for receiving the 2012 Prix Galien Research Award. The Prix Galien, often referred to as the Nobel Prize in pharmaceutical sciences, is the most prestigious award in the field [...]

A unique and valued feature of the CBR is that it fosters the careers of young scientists to explore translational research opportunities across multiple disciplines, with a focus on solving clinically relevant problems related to blood, blood diseases and blood processes. Each year, with the support of multiple sponsors, CBR investigators and their teams supervise [...]

UBC Clinical Professor & Canadian Blood Services Scientist Dr. Ed Pryzdial explains why it is important to understand the link between viruses and heart disease and how this knowledge can be used to improve patient care.

On Wednesday July 25th the CBR welcomed 3 nurses from the Hematology Research Clinical Trials Unit to share what exactly the HRCTU is and why we need one! The talks lasted about an hour and were impressively informative and very interesting. Traci Corr RN spoke on “CoDIVO study A comparison of in vivo outcome following [...]

Our 2012 CBR Summer Students had the chance to visit the Oak Street location of Canadian Blood Services on June 12. Dr. Gerry Growe gave an amazing tour through the donation process including eligibility and safety practices. The students were then taken through packaging, storage and shipment processes. We would like to thank Dr. Growe [...]

The husband and wife team of Shelly Naiman and Linda Vickars devoted their careers to solving the puzzles of hematology, including bleeding and clotting disorders. So when the time came for the couple to plan their giving, they decided to enable such sleuthing by others. Drs. Naiman and Vickars created an endowment with a $30,000 [...]

Severe malaria is a blood borne parasitic disease that afflicts more than 200 million individuals annually. Even in the best clinical settings, case fatality rates remain high since anti-malarial drugs are directed against the parasite but do not reduce life-threatening (brain) inflammation. CBR member Dr. Bob Hancock, Director of the Centre for Microbial Diseases and [...]