Transforming Health Symposium

Vancouver Convention Centre 1055 Canada Pl, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

The inaugural Transforming Health Symposium on November 4, 2024, presented by the UBC Academy of Translational Medicine (ATM), the UBC Faculty of Medicine’s Precision Health Initiative, and Canada’s Immuno-Engineering and Biomanufacturing Hub (CIEBH). This event will bring together a community of global thought leaders, clinicians, investigators, trainees and industry experts to examine the translational pathway highlighting areas of excellence locally […]

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2024 Rudolf Vrba Memorial Lecture

Hybrid Online/Virtual and In-Person - See Description Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Speaker: Dr. Paul Insel, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology and Medicine UC San Diego Professor Insel’s research has focused on G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), their expression, signaling mechanisms, regulation, and functional roles in health and disease. His recent work identified expression of GPCRs in native cells and tissues and the potential of novel GPCRs as therapeutic […]

CHSPR Seminar | Evaluating Inequities in Refugee & Immigrant’s Health Care Access

Hybrid Online/Virtual and In-Person - See Description Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada +1 more

Speaker: Ruth Lavergne, Dalhousie University The Evaluating Inequities in Refugee & Immigrant’s Health Access project aimed to understand the health experiences of immigrants and migrants (im/migrants) in BC. With community engagement as the backbone to the study, it combined interviews with im/migrant community members and linked health and immigrations data to explore access to health care […]

Wingspan Gala

Ponderosa Commons North (Oak and Cedar Houses) 6445 University Boulevard, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Overview Please join us for the launch, celebration and honoring of Wingspan’s film, Wings Rising: Disability Justice, Art and Education, Directed by Thomas Buchan and Produced by Leslie G. Roman Wingspan at UBC. Background photo credit: Daniel Biber “No solitary wing can rise. It may flap its rage and pain, but all that rises is […]

Earl W. Davie Symposium

UBC Robson Square 800 Robson Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

This annual 1-day symposium honours Dr. Earl W. Davie’s scientific contributions in hemostasis-thrombosis, which have impacted on the care of patients world-wide. He and his colleagues devised the revolutionary Waterfall Sequence for Blood Clotting, and subsequently,  throughout the 1960s and ’70s, applied cutting edge technologies to identify and characterize most of the coagulation proteins and […]

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