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UBC Department of Medicine Researchers Awarded over $4.4M in CIHR Fall 2021 Project Grant Competition The Project Grant program is designed to capture ideas with the greatest potential to advance health-related fundamental or applied knowledge, health research, health care, health systems, and/or health outcomes. It supports projects or programs of research proposed and conducted by Read More »

Why do some people infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 get severe disease while others have no symptoms? Why do some experience long-term effects and others recover quickly? These are some of the questions that a new study, launching this week at St. Paul’s Hospital, aims to answer. BC to enrol 500 of 2000+ Read More »

When the pandemic hit back in March 2020, most research activities at Providence Health Care and other institutions around the world were curtailed, with the exception of COVID-19 studies. Almost overnight, many researchers dropped their work and pivoted all their attention to SARS-CoV-2. The year 2021 saw a gradual re-opening of research at Providence, but Read More »

Dr. Victor Leung was interviewed by CBC News, discussing COVID-19 Aerosol Transmission: Watch Here >

Featured from the Daily Scan: The historic transplant of a pig kidney to a human is a “milestone” event that could one day address the shortage of donor organs, says Dr. John Gill, a research scientist and physician with St. Paul’s Hospital’s Division of Nephrology and professor of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. Read More »