2012 Faculty of Medicine Awards

Max Cynader, Professor of Ophthalmology, receives the Bill and Marilyn Webber Lifetime Achievement Award.
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H1N1 discovery paves way for universal flu vaccine

UBC researchers found that the “swine flu” vaccine triggers antibodies that protect against many influenza viruses.
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Faculty of Medicine to double enrolment in midwifery education program

Bolstered by increased funding from the Province of British Columbia, first-year spaces in the program will grow to 20.
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Faculty of Medicine signs agreement with Chinese Ministry of Health

Gavin Stuart, UBC’s Vice Provost Health and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, signed the agreement in Beijing.
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Reversing cognitive decline through resistance training

New UBC research shows that resistance training can improve cognitive performance in seniors at risk for dementia.
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UBC-CFRI team receives funding to predict adverse effects of childhood cancer treatments

A team led by Kirk Schultz, Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, has received $4.3 million in funding.
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An international collaboration targets a rare cancer

Privately-funded collaborative includes Torsten Nielsen, Associate Professor in Pathology & Laboratory Medicine.
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An injection of humanity

Patients are supposed to be the centre of attention for students preparing to work in one of the hea...

Attention all employees: Live longer

Imagine your boss coming to your cubicle and, in the course of dumping yet another assignment on you...

Innovation squared

The best innovations often arise from the joining of two distinct, independently developed innovatio...

Boiling things down

The biggest challenge facing life scientists — beyond curing disease, of course — is ex...

Flashes of brilliance

The Verisante Aura detects melanomas. The VELscope highlights oral cancers. The PortaMon looks for b...

Setting a global dragnet

It’s not terribly difficult to spare a woman from the dangers of pre-eclampsia, the sudden ons...

Applying algorithms to anesthesia

Mark Ansermino (on left) is an anesthesiologist, whose job is to protect patients from pain or comp...

Spreading the word to save lives

When researchers make a significant new finding, the news is typically shared through publication in...

A crop of new doctors

In 2004, UBC embarked on a daring experiment in medical education. It began distributing the trainin...

Going where no wheelchairs have gone before

Power wheelchairs have brought a new level of mobility to disabled people, particularly for those w...
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