The CBR Summer Studentship Program is filling the Experience Gap
The Summer Studentship Program offers undergraduate students a gateway opportunity to facilitate career development in research by the opportunity to develop their own research project with the guidance of mentors, as well as attend a series of skill building workshops and tours.
CBR Finalist in the ACS Chemistry Champs Contest
Olga Zamudio Prieto from Dr. Dieter Bromme’s Laboratory at the CBR was awarded second place at the American Chemical Society (ACS) Chemistry Championship Finals in Philadelphia.
Research Day in Review
A review of CBR’s Annual Research Day held on August 16th; a day where summer students and graduate students get to showcase their work and talent.
Red Blood Cell masquerade: polymer-mediated immunocamouflage provides Rh D antigen-safe blood
Li Li, a postdoctoral fellow from Mark Scott’s lab at the CBR, along with her colleagues developed a technique to reduce the risk of acute immune response in blood transfusions from D+ donors to D- recipients.
UBC’s new president makes Centre for Blood Research one of his first stops
UBC President Santa Ono fondly recalled his days as a young scientist at the CBR Research Day.
The Pryzdial Lab Advances a Novel Clot-Dissolving Drug
After two decades of major clinical trials aimed at improving the safety of clot-dissolving drugs, the Pryzdial lab marks a new strategy to dissolve clots based on a novel biochemical pathway they discovered.
Nominees for the 2016 Neil Mackenzie Excellence Award
In honor of Neil Mackenzie, the Centre for Blood Research offers an award in his name to recognize the mentorship excellence in the CBR community. This year, we have received 22 nominations highlighting the incredible efforts and achievements of 16 CBR mentors.
2016 MSFHR Scholar Program Award Recipients
The MSFHR Scholar Program is designed to foster the development of outstanding health researchers in BC. Three CBR current and past members have received this award.
Mourning the loss of Dr. Sheldon Naiman – 1937-2016
On July 24, 2016, we lost a wonderful person, and longtime friend of the CBR and many others. Dr. Sheldon (Shelly) Naiman was born in Toronto in 1937, and after completing medical school, moved to California and then to Vancouver, where he became the founding Head of Clinical Hematology in the Department of Medicine. Dr. […]
“Critical Skills for Success Conference” – the Student Led Initiative
An overview: The Critical Skills for Success Symposium held on July 22, 2016, was organized by the students in the Graduate Award Program targeted to expand their own and their peers’ horizons both in academic and non-academic directions.