Bike to Work Week: CBR-LSC team has beat all records!
Twenty nine riders on the LSC team, of which 15 were members of the CBR, competed against other UBC teams and cycled to the 1st place.
The Green side of CBR: Join the Sustainability Club
This month, CBR celebrates the second anniversary of the Compost Cookie Club! Most people may not be aware that the organic waste produced on campus is made into a useful product for the UBC gardeners to use on University landscapes.
Conference Reports: Keystone Symposia Meeting on Hybrid Methods in Structural Biology
Julien Bergeron, a Postdoctoral Fellow in Strynadka Lab at CBR, was partially funded by the CBR PDF Travel Award to attend the Meeting at Tahoe City, California.
Norman Bethune Symposium 2015 – an exciting day of research
The 4th Annual Norman Bethune Symposium, which focused on HIV-related research in the morning and hemophilia and bleeding disorders talks in the afternoon, brought together visiting and local clinicians, researchers, and industry representatives. Four common themes stood out:
Who is Dr. Norman Bethune?
“I have an idea – I think we should organize an ambulant blood transfusion service.” Norman Bethune, 1936. The first CBR Norman Bethune Blood Transfusion Symposium opened in March 2012. Now, in 2015, the Symposium has grown to 200 attendees and will be happening on April 16, 2015! You can follow the Norman Bethune Symposium […]
“Protease Inhibitors in Drug Discovery” Conference Summary
Protease Inhibitors in Drug Discovery Conference was held on February 26-27, 2015 in San Diego, CA – hosted by GTCbio CBR members, Dr. Dieter Bromme and his postdoctoral fellow, Preety Panwar, attended the Protease Inhibitors in Drug Discovery Conference, where Preety presented her research on “Exosite inhibitors targeting cathepsin K in osteoporosis”. Her travel was […]
Michael Yuchi receives the 2014 Michael John Page PDF Award
On Friday, October 17, 2014, at a well-attended ceremony at the Life Sciences Centre at UBC, the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and the Centre for Blood Research (CBR) presented the Michael John Page Postdoctoral Fellow Award to Dr. Michael Yuchi. Michael Yuchi was born in China, starting his science career at Fudan University, […]
2nd Year Anniversary for UBC Bleeding Disorders Collaboratory
The overarching goal of the UBC Bleeding Disorders Collaboratory (UBC-BDC), established in 2012, is to bring together all of the key players involved in the care of individuals with bleeding disorders – clinicians, basic scientists, students at all levels, technicians, technologists, nurses, physiotherapists, orthopedists, and more – to solve the urgent problems faced by patients. […]
Polymers join investigators at the CBR and the Freie Universiteit Berlin
On September 29-30, 2014, several CBR members, including Don Brooks, Jay Kizhakkedathu, Manu Thomas Kalathottukaren, Erika Siren, Yan Mei and Ed Conway were hosted by Drs. Rainer Haag and Marie Weinhart and their colleagues and students at the Frei Universiteit Berlin for a 2-day workshop on polymers. It was a terrifically stimulating and inspiring couple […]
CBR Summer Students Impress at Research Day
On August 13, 2014, the Centre for Blood Research celebrated the end of the Summer Studentship Program with the annual CBR Research Day. Over 20 summer students who worked in labs and clinics throughout the CBR, described their work with poster and powerpoint presentations. For many, this was their first public speaking engagement, and with […]