Health and Wellness Committee Celebrates 1-Year Anniversary!
The Health and Wellness Committee works to support all aspects of health among the CBR members. The committee is looking for new recruits to join in planning and organizing Health and Wellness activities throughout the coming year!
Dr. Chris Overall wins 2017 HUPO Award
The Human Proteome Organization (HUPO) recognized Dr. Chris Overall for his outstanding accomplishments and contributions to the field of proteomics. Congratulations to Dr. Overall and his team on winning the 2017 Discovery in Proteomic Sciences Award!
The challenges of HIV research today: Interview with Richard Harrigan
Jenny Chik, a postdoctoral fellow in the Foster lab, got the opportunity to interview Dr. Richard Harrigan, Professor in the Department of Medicine and the Director of Research Laboratories at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS to discuss present challenges and future of HIV research.
Results are out! Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship
Natalie Zeytuni and J. Andrew Alexander from the Strynadka Lab, have received highly prestigious national awards.
Get the Scoop: What is the Health and Wellness Committee?
The Health and Wellness Committee was formed to improve the psychological and physical well-being of CBR members, by exposing them members to new skills, new ideas, and physical activities to help elevate stress and expand social networks.
Interview with Dr. Ross MacGillivray, the First CBR Director
One of the founding members of the CBR, Ross MacGillivray, reflects about the past, present and future of the CBR.
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. […]
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.