Dr. Aly Karsan has been awarded a UBC Killam Research Prize for 2021, which is among one of the prestigious UBC Faculty Research Awards. The Office of the VP, Research and Innovation (VPRI) announced the recipients on March 29, 2022.
Dr. Aly Karsan
A principal investigator at the UBC Centre for Blood Research (CBR), Dr. Karsan is also a professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at UBC, and Distinguished Scientist at Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre at BC Cancer. His work is internationally recognized in the field of blood cancer research, and he has been supported by numerous awards over the years, including 10 years as a Clinician-Scientist awardee of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and 10 years as a Scholar of the Michael Smith Foundation of Health Research.
The UBC Faculty Research Awards recognize the research excellence and scholarly achievements of faculty from across disciplines, and the UBC Killam Research Prize recognizes “outstanding research and scholarly contributions”. Dr. Karsan was 1 of 4 UBC Killam Research Prize recipients from the applied science, medicine and sciences area, in the Senior Category.
Winners are selected by UBC’s Faculty Research Award Committee and recipients span from early career researchers to senior members of faculty.
The Office of the VPRI will be hosting a reception on June 3, 2022 to acknowledge the achievements of these researchers. Congratulations, Dr. Karsan!