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Stem cell engineering breakthrough paves way for next-generation living drugs
Read MoreFor the first time, researchers at UBC have demonstrated how to reliably produce an important type of human immune cell, known as helper T cells, from stem cells in a controlled laboratory setting.
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The Year of the Treg: The latest discoveries by the Levings lab
Read MoreDr. Megan Levings and her team have recently published two papers on the very different functions and uses of regulatory T cells (Tregs). Tregs are immune cells that help to rein in immune responses to ensure that they don’t go too far and begin harming healthy tissues in their pursuit of foreign invaders.
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Congratulations to the winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025
Read MoreOn Monday, October 6, 2025 The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 to Dr. Mary E. Brunkow, Dr. Fred Ramsdell, and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.
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Congratulations CIHR Fall 2024 Project Grant recipients
Read MoreCongratulations to the investigators and their teams who were awarded funding through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Fall 2024 Project Grant competition.
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Congratulations CIHR Spring 2024 Project Grant recipients
Read MoreCongratulations to the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute (BCCHR), Women’s Health Research Institute (WHRI), and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) investigators and their teams who were awarded funding through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Spring 2024 Project Grant competition.
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Congratulations CIHR Spring 2023 Project Grant recipients
Read MoreCongratulations to the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute (BCCHR), Women’s Health Research Institute (WHRI) and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) investigators and their teams who were awarded funding through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Spring 2023 Project Grant competition.
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Rescued from the rubbish bin: How the thymus could stop organ transplant rejection
Read MoreFor more than two decades, BC Children’s Hospital researcher Dr. Megan Levings has been immersed in the complex world of very specialized immune system cells – regulatory T cells.
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New project hopes to uncover the origins of type 1 diabetes
Read MoreWith a mom who is a cancer researcher, Ramya Hosak has grown up with a love of and interest in science. But it was her diagnosis of type 1 diabetes 15 years ago that really changed the entire trajectory of her life, once she got over the shock of facing a lifelong health condition.
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Congratulations CIHR Spring 2022 Project Grant recipients
Read MoreCongratulations to the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute (BCCHR) and Women’s Health Research Institute (WHRI) investigators and their teams who were awarded funding through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Spring 2022 Project Grant competition.
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Inspiring the next generation of scientists: An insight into BCCHR Summer Student Research Program
Read MoreFor over 34 years, the Summer Student Research Program has enabled university students to participate in child and family health research under the supervision of BC Children’s Hospital investigators.
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