Minimizing Treatment Times for Beta-thalassemia Major: a Small Solution with Potential for Big Impact
Jasmine Hamilton from Kizhakkedathu group developed a scaffold for delivering an iron chelator treatment, reducing the number of injections beta-thalassemia major patients could require from 10 per day to 1 per week.
Pick Your Peak – Stairs Challenge
21 CBR members participated in the 4 week Pick Your Peak – Stair Challenge held by UBC Human Resources, aimed to improve cardiovascular health and promote a sustainable workplace.
CIHR Foundation and Project Grants Recipients
Congratulations to the 6 CBR researchers that have received Foundation and Project Grants in the first cycle of CIHR’s brand new funding system: Drs. Christopher Overall, Christian Kastrup, Kelly McNagny, Jay Kizhakkedathu, Robert Hancock, and Wilfred Jefferies!
Cautiously Rethinking Pathogen Inactivation Technology – Selective Effects on Platelet
Christa Klein-Bosgoed, a PhD candidate in Dr. Dana Devine’s laboratory at the CBR, is soon to have a paper in Transfusion on how Pathogen Inactivation-treatment affects platelet units prepared for transfusion.
Evan Haney talks about his experience at the ASM Microbe 2016
Evan Haney, a Postdoctoral Fellow in Hancock Lab, got the opportunity to travel to Boston for the first time and attend the ASM Microbe 2016 meeting where he presented a poster titled “Sequence Optimization and Computational Design of Synthetic Antibiofilm Peptides”.
Meet a 2015 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship Recipient – Farshad Babaeijandaghi
Farshad Babaeijandaghi, a graduate student in Dr. Fabio Rossi’s lab received the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship in the 2015 competition for his research on fibro-adipogenic progenitors (FAPs).
Dr. Jay N Kizhakkedathu appointed to Full Professor!
Dr. Jay N Kizhakkedathu has been appointed to a Full Professor of Medicine in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.
Professor Donald Metcalf – A tribute to the legend (26 February 1929 – 15 December 2014)
Dr. Donald Metcalf, The Father of Modern Hematology, was a titan of his field, studying the production of blood cells, cell survival, suppressors of cell signalling, and stem cells.
CBR Summer Student receives 3M National Student Fellowship
Paul Kim, currently a summer student in Dr. Hancock’s Lab, is one of the 10 recipients who have received the $5 000 3M National Student Fellowship.
The Story of Beta-thalassemia: Blood, the Sea, and a Bluebird
Though blood transfusions, iron chelation therapy, folic acid supplementation, and stem cell transplantation can be used to treat thalassemia, gene-therapy sparks much attention to be a potential treatment option for beta-thalassemia major patients.