
Your child is undergoing day surgery. You have just spent the last few hours pacing around the halls of BC Children’s Hospital, waiting to get called back to her bedside. You are agitated and nervous. You get the call that she is out of surgery, groggy, and likely uncomfortable. The surgeon comes by, gives the…

“It was so phenomenal to be able to be in the presence of people who have reached their goals for the future,” wrote one student who attended Mini Med School BC – Vancouver Island in Nanaimo.

New robotic stem cell research technology funded by the BC Children’s Hospital Foundation will be a game changer for accelerating new treatment or cures for severe and rare childhood illnesses. For the first time in history, all aspects of stem cell culturing are combined into a single piece of equipment, which is housed within BC…