
For the first time ever, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute has produced a mini Year in Review to publicly share a snapshot of research accomplished during the past fiscal year.

Diabetes is a disease in which the body either can’t produce insulin (type 1), or the insulin the pancreas does produce doesn’t work well (type 2). This chronic condition affects over half a billion people worldwide, including 5.7 million Canadians, and can lead to complications such as stroke, blindness and amputation. People with diabetes need…

In 2004, Dr. Tim Oberlander’s attention was drawn to a paper in Science reporting a study by colleagues in New York.