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July 26, 2018

Congratulations CIHR Grant Recipients!
We are pleased to congratulate the BC Children’s and BC Women’s investigators who were awarded funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Project Grant Spring 2018 competition, as well as the BC Children’s investigators who received funding from the recent CIHR Foundation and Team Grant competitions.
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July 17, 2018

A protein that helps prevent diabetes could be a target for future treatments: Q&A with Thilo Speckmann
In Dr. Francis Lynn’s lab part of the Canucks for Kids Fund Childhood Diabetes Laboratories at BC Children’s Hospital, researchers are going deep inside the inner workings of cells to study how diabetes develops on a molecular level. Diabetes occurs when these cells stop producing insulin or when the body stops recognizing and responding to…
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July 10, 2018

“You don’t treat a label, you treat a person”: Dr. Suzanne Lewis takes a personalized approach to understanding autism
For BC Children’s Hospital investigator Dr. Suzanne Lewis, the future of diagnosing and treating children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) lies in the power of personalized medicine. In personalized medicine, patients receive therapies uniquely tailored to their biological and genetic makeup. It’s an individualized approach that, according to Dr. Lewis, may be the key to…

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