Dr. Cheryl Wellington (pictured) is leading a team of researchers in characterizing changes in the immune system of COVID-19 infected patients. Her work has received a lot of media attention this month!
CONGRATULATIONS
- Dr. Stan Floresco was awarded the UBC Killam Teaching Prize
- Dr. Sophia Frangou’s paper “Heritability and Cognitive Relevance of Structural Brain Controllability” makes the cover of the May issue of Cerebral Cortex
- The UBC Clinic for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders held a successful public forum on May 23 via Zoom, which included talks from Drs. Hakkon Nygaard, Robin Hsiung, Julie Robillard, Silke Cresswell and Sherri Hayden
- Drs. Helen Tremlett and Jacqueline Quandt received grants from the MS Society of Canada for new MS projects
- Drs. Raymond Lam, Erin Michalak and Jill Murphy received a CIHR Knowledge Synthesis Grant to assess needs and opportunities for equity in access to digital mental health by high-risk groups in the Asia-Pacific
MEDIA
- UBC discovery opens new avenues for designing drugs to combat drug-resistant malaria (UBC Faculty of Medicine)
- Mental health support program for BC doctors get boost during pandemic (CTV News)
- Hacking the virus: eight UBC grads step up to supply the COVID-19 shortage (Forbes)
- Dr. Fidel Vila-Rodriguez is featured in the Capture Queue podcast
- Tough decisions ahead as British Columbians consider bigger social bubbles (CTV News)
- Largest study of infection rates in MS confirms higher risk of newer agents (Neurology Today)
- Early love from mothers can lead to many positives later in life for kids (CTV News)
- 32-year-old who survived severe COVID-19 infection speaks out (CTV News)
- Fostering collaboration to advance brain health research (VCHRI)
- The next health-care crisis? The patients who have been waiting out COVID-19 (HuffPost)
- A sparse, spatially biased subtype of mature granule cell dominates recruitment in hippocampal-associated behaviours (Science in the City)
- Support of collaborative research vital to our future (Northshore News)
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