Stem Cell Network awards support world-class, translational, regenerative medicine research, across the research continuum, to facilitate health, social and economic benefits for Canadians.

This award supports early career researchers to develop a research program with a regenerative medicine focus.

Melika Bakharzi (Kuchenbauer Lab) awarded ECHORIDGE Educational Foundation Scholarship

This fund has been set up to award deserving students who are studying in the area of Hematological Malignancies

Award presented by the VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation

Project title: Functional modeling and characterization of osteolyic bone lesions in multiple myeloma patients.

​​​This year marks 40 years of science, discovery, innovation, collaboration and education at the Terry Fox Laboratory.

Congratulations to Sara McPherson (Stirling Lab) for receiving the GSAT summer student scholarship for her project entitled, "Dominant Missense Genetics of DNA Repair to Uncover Novel Synthetic Lethal Interactions."

Participating undergraduate students get hands-on research experience with researchers from the Centre for Blood Research, the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, the International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries, the Genome Science and Technology Graduate Program, and the UBC School of Biomedical Engineering. 

FoM MRPM provides undergraduate students with an opportunity to explore their interest in interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research by undertaking a summer project supervised by a cross-faculty pair of researchers based on the success of the University of British Columbia at Okanagan’s Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Projects in Health program.

Congratulations to Makenna Clement-Ranney (Hoodless Lab) for receiving the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada-Undergraduate Student Research Awards (NSERC-USRA) for her research entitled, "Establishing a model to study human liver development in vitro through comparison of 2D hiPSC cell culture and 3D hiPSC-derived organoids."

BC Cancer Studentships are sponsored by the BC Cancer Foundation and support senior undergraduate university students and/or junior medical or dental students seeking hands-on training in cancer research in British Columbia. These summer studentships may address any discipline of cancer research including clinical, translational, basic, behavioural and population research areas. 

Congratulations to Danny Liu and Dexter Kim on receiving this year's BC Cancer Studentships. 

Congratulations to the following Terry Fox Laboratory for receiving scholarships and fellowships to advance their research: