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Childhood Diseases | Lab, Project & Program Websites
Canadian Autoimmunity Standardization Core (CAN-ASC)
CAN-ASC is a Canada-wide consortium of researchers and clinician scientists. We collaborate with international networks from academia and industry to develop consensus-driven, standardized and validated operating procedures (SOPs) for human immunology research.
Canucks for Kids Fund Childhood Diabetes Laboratories
The Canucks for Kids Fund Childhood Diabetes Laboratories aim to improve the lives of children with diabetes by advancing knowledge of type 1 and type 2 diabetes, through innovative and multi-disciplinary basic and clinical diabetes research.
Levings Lab
Research from the Levings Lab focuses on immune cells called T regulatory cells (Tregs) that are central to immune tolerance and are a very promising new therapeutic tool.
Michael Cuccione Childhood Cancer Research Program (MCCCRP)
Researchers with the Michael Cuccione Childhood Cancer Research Program embrace one goal: to save children’s lives, while improving their health and quality of life through every phase of treatment and recovery.
Silent Genomes Project
Reducing health care disparities and improving diagnostic success for children with genetic diseases from Indigenous populations
Trainee Omics Group
The BCCHR Trainee Omics Group is a team of enthusiastic trainees from across research themes at the BC Children's Research Institute who are eager to make bioinformatics accessible and fun for everyone!
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New research funding to accelerate stem cell-based therapies for type 1 diabetes at BC Children’s Hospital
BC Children’s Hospital’s Dr. Francis Lynn is leading one of two groups awarded a total of $6 million in funding from the Government of Canada and JDRF Canada to accelerate the development of stem cell based therapies for type 1 diabetes (T1D)
Peanut allergy treatment significantly lowers risk of life-threatening reactions in preschoolers
A new study by researchers at BC Children’s Hospital and the University of British Columbia gives hope to parents and kids who face real danger from exposure to peanuts.
New BC study to estimate how many young people have been infected with COVID
BC Children’s Hospital-led research project aims to better grasp the role that children and young adults have played in the development of the COVID-19 pandemic in British Columbia
App could provide new way to track vaccine safety
Researchers from BC Children's Hospital and The Ottawa Hospital have launched a pilot study that uses an app to track adverse events related to flu vaccine.
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