The BC Children's Hospital Research Institute is located on the BC Children's Hospital campus in Vancouver, BC. With more than 350,000 square feet devoted to research, our institute is the largest of its kind in Western Canada.
Congratulations to the winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 was awarded to Dr. Mary E. Brunkow, Dr. Fred Ramsdell, and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance. BCCHR's Dr. Megan Levings reflects on the significance of this area of research and how these immune cells could develop treatments for numerous diseases such as type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis, organ rejection, and more.
