Christopher Lyons

Publications: Linkage analysis identifies an isolated strabismus locus at 14q12 overlapping with FOXG1 syndrome region
Xin (Cynthia) Ye and Nicole M. Roslin and Andrew D. Paterson and Christopher Lyons and Victor Pegado and Phillip Richmond and Casper Shyr and Oriol Fornes and Xiaohua Han and Michelle Higginson and Colin J. Ross and Deborah Giaschi and Cheryl Y. Gregory-Evans and Millan Patel and Wyeth W. Wasserman
DOI: 10.1101/2020.04.24.20077586
04/2020

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Congratulations CIHR Spring 2025 Project Grant recipients

Congratulations to the investigators and their teams who were awarded funding through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Spring 2025 Project Grant competition.

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OPTIMISE trial seeks to personalize cancer treatment for children with high-risk tumours

Dr. Rebecca Deyell will be leading the OPTIMISE trial — short for Optimal Precision Therapies to CustoMISE Care in Childhood and Adolescent Cancer — at BC Children's Hospital. The trial is designed to match children, adolescents and young adults with high-risk cancers to targeted therapies based on the genetic makeup of their tumours.

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Bringing Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Ceremony to child health research

To enact BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute's commitment to grow and invest in Indigenous child health research and adapt its research practices through Indigenous partnerships, the Institute has created a network of researchers, clinicians, and Indigenous advisors called the Indigenous Child Health Knowledge Super Hub.

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The truth about concussion in children and youth: 'It's a traumatic brain injury'

Concussions are brain injuries that can have serious effects — especially in children, whose brains are still developing. Dr. Shelina Babul, creator of the Concussion Awareness Training Tool (CATT), explains why early recognition and proper care are essential — allowing kids to recover safely and get back to life, school, and doing what they love.

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Why measuring doctor workload matters

Dr. Quynh Doan is improving how emergency departments pair patients with doctors. Her new tool helps hospital staff to better fight worker burnout. 

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Cardiac and Eye Surgery

Investigate key topics in pediatric heart and eye surgery. Presented by Dr. Sanjiv Gandhi, Investigator & Chief of Pediatric Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery, BC Children's Hospital; staff surgeon, St. Paul's Hospital; Clinical Professor, Department of Surgery, UBC. | Dr. Christopher Lyons, Investigator & Head, Department of Ophthalmology, BC Children's Hospital; Professor, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, UBC. (2017)

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