🍁📣Don’t miss the fist session in the Patient Voices in Research Initiative Seminar Series!🍁📣 This 4-part series features projects funded through our Patient Voices in Research Initiative, a funding program fully governed by cancer patients for cancer patients. 🔗 Register now! tinyurl.com/52f9nw7a

New research from BCCHR, uses longitudinal data from the CHILD Cohort Study, to show that breastfeeding acts as a shield, protecting the infant microbiota from many different exposures well into early childhood. The impact is especially clear among children from lower socioeconomic status.

⏰ GAPP deadline at 11:59 pm 🧬 BC researchers — don’t miss your chance to partner with industry and turn genomics into real-world impact. 📝LOI due: April 13 at 11:59pm 🔗 https://www.genomebc.ca/funding-opportunity/genomic-applications-partnership-program-gapp/

Vancouver is March-ing towards success! 🥳 From coast-to-coast funding success to prestigious national awards, March was a standout month for the local science community. Meet the researchers behind the breakthroughs, and check out our monthly award summary: https://bit.ly/47HjlPm

I am giving a free webinar on menopause hormone therapy, sponsored by BC Women's Hospital, on Tuesday, March 31. Hope you can join me! zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The Health Metadata Commons, a Genome BC initiative, is a free hub for health research metadata. Find omics data or biobank samples faster, share your own data, boost impact and spark collaborations. 👉 metadatacommons.ca #MetadataCommons #HealthData #OpenScience #HealthResearch #Biobanking

Celebrate Research Day with Dr. Niranjan 'Tex' Kissoon with a Pediatric Grand Round session on making sepsis a global health success. 📅April 10 11:00 AM PDT📍Chan Centre or Zoom: shorturl.at/iB4xT

A new paper from @bcchresearch.bsky.social details how an 18-year-old patient with chronic granulomatous disease became the first person ever to receive and be cured by a gene modification treatment known as “Prime Editing.” 🧬 Learn more: https://bit.ly/4def752

Congratulations to Dr. Samantha Pollard and all the winners of the Terry Fox New Investigator Awardees!

BC researchers are receiving $8M in federal funding to fast-track genomic solutions 🧬 8 teams will advance real-world projects, from pathogen detection to improved care for cancer, Type 1 diabetes and endometriosis. Part of a $20M Genome Canada GAPP investment. 📖: https://tinyurl.com/29kchrhs

Construction is well underway on the new centre for health complexity at BC Children's Hospital, a first-of-its-kind facility in Canada. 🏗️ This new centre will help connect families across BC with the services, & care they need. The project is on budget & on track to open in early 2028.

🥳 @terryfoxresearch.bsky.social has joined forces with CIHR and partners to advance cancer prevention through a groundbreaking new funding initiative. Congratulations to the awardees from BC: Drs. Gina Ogilvie, Inna Sekirov, Isabella Tai, and Citlali Marquez: https://bit.ly/3P87Nhp

On #CMAJPodcasts, Drs. Megan Cooney and Matthew Carwana discuss how the TEN‑4‑FACESp rule helps identify bruising patterns concerning for physical abuse, and what pandemic-era hospitalization trends reveal about the severity of maltreatment in infants and toddlers. ➡️ www.cmaj.ca/transcript-251219

Fantastic interview with Ty Sperle and BCCHR's Dr Stuart Turvey (@turveylab.bsky.social) on a successful gene treatment for a rare immune disorder on The Current with Matt Galloway this morning. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Great to talk with Matt Galloway on CBC The Current this morning about successful gene therapy for a human immune defect. The Current with Matt Galloway - March 9, 2026: How a gene edit gave a B.C teen his life back. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... @mattgalloway.bsky.social @bcchresearch.bsky.social

Congratulations!

Luo Ting Huang, Yaser Tahamtani, @nictitate.bsky.social & co explored the possibility of magnetic selection of insulin-expressing stem cell‑derived β‑cells using a CRISPR/Cas9 technology and transmembrane glycoprotein CD19 as a marker. @bcchresearch.bsky.social Read: doi.org/10.1242/dmm....

In a world first, B.C. teen cured of rare disease through gene editing treatment. Ty Sperle cured of chronic granulomatous disease with a treatment known as “prime editing,” by Brenna Owen www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/briti... via @theglobeandmail.com

Ty Sperle says he felt "insane shock" after learning he'd been cured of a rare genetic disease through a clinical trial using a new gene-editing treatment.

Elakkiya presented her research at the Healthy Starts Research Day 2026! She also received the best poster presentation award. Congratulations Elakkiya 🎉

Man cured of rare disease in world-first for a new gene-editing technology. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Canada’s first-ever pan-Canadian clinical trial—DECRYPT-BABYBRAIN—is pioneering a radiation-free approach to treat rare and aggressive brain tumours in infants and young children. Dr. Sylvia Cheng is one of the lead investigator at @bcchresearch.bsky.social for the trial. 🖇️ https://bit.ly/4rdcu7K

What happens after a child survives sepsis? AoS member Dr. Matthew Wiens and colleagues are leading the first Canadian Horizon Europe Pillar 2 project to reduce post-discharge childhood sepsis deaths. 🔗Read the full story by @bcchresearch.bsky.social here: shorturl.at/V2FDX

This new paper from Luo Ting Huang, @nictitate.bsky.social & co @bcchresearch.bsky.social used genetic engineering to facilitate magnetic-activated cell sorting enrichment of insulin-producing stem cell-derived β cells with implications for cell-replacement therapy doi.org/10.1242/dmm....

A team led by @bcchresearch.bsky.social 's Dr. Matthew Wiens has been awarded €5 million in Horizon Europe funding to improve community-based care for children after hospital discharge in Uganda and Kenya. The goal of reducing deaths from severe infections like #sepsis: https://bit.ly/4r1T31L

Registration is now open for the eleventh annual Women’s Health Research Symposium! Join us on Friday, March 6th, 2026, in-person at the Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre on the UBC campus or virtually via live-stream. Learn more and register today: whri.org/eleventh-ann...)

As we close out #CervicalCancerAwarenessMonth, we spoke with Amy Booth to share which areas of cervical cancer research she is interested in exploring in 2026. Learn more: linktr.ee/womensresearch #MedSky

ICYMI: Our Director Dr. Shelina Babul breaks down five concussion myths in this Q&A by @ubcmedicine.bsky.social:

Embracing Risky Play at Schools with Dr. Mariana Brussoni | Teach Outdoors podcast with Lauren MacLean www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAX2... via www.youtube.com/@TeachOutdoors

Ready to model the brain your way? Join The Virtual Brain Node at CNS 2026 in Vancouver and learn how to build personalized brain network simulations in this hands-on workshop. March 6th, 2026 | 9:00 AM–5:30 PM Register early: www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-virtua...

For the first time, researchers at UBC have demonstrated how to reliably produce #TCells from stem cells in a lab setting. See the work from Dr. @jonesr18.bsky.social, @kevinsalim.bsky.social#TCells and the Zandstra & Levings labs: https://bit.ly/4qJcXhi Abstract: https://bit.ly/45QKIFo

Congratulations Nikita!

A celebration of life is planned to honour biomedical physiology professor Glen Tibbits on January 24 and a memorial fund has been set up to honour his passion for mentoring graduate students. Learn more: www.sfu.ca/bpk/glentibb...

FYI for non-Canadians, the Canadian government has just invested in a special, likely one-time, program of prestigious federally funded positions to recruit outstanding scientists to Canada this year.

Big breakthrough for living drugs. UBC researchers have discovered how to grow “helper” immune cells from stem cells—paving the way for more effective and accessible off-the-shelf immune therapies. Learn more: news.ubc.ca/2026/01/stem...

In partnership with UBC Connects at Robson square, the DMCBH presents leading UBC scholars Dr. Fidel Vila-Rodriguez, Dr. Julie Robillard, and Dr. Tamara Vanderwal in a conversation about the technologies reshaping mental health care on January 28, 2026. communityengagement.ubc.ca/events/reima...

👏👏👏This is really a remarkable breakthrough in treating patients with chronic granulomatous disease👏👏👏 Proud to have played a very small part in this medical miracle. @bcchresearch.bsky.social @nejm.org @bcchf.bsky.social @ubcmedicine.bsky.social

As genetic testing becomes part of health care, one question remains: who helps patients make sense of it all? Drs. Alison Elliott & @j9austin.bsky.social at @bcchresearch.bsky.social & UBC are a part of the GenCOUNSEL project changing how we experience #GeneticCounselling: https://bit.ly/48WtfMO