Healthy Starts
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Targeted vaccines are needed to combat antimicrobial resistance
Ten million people — equivalent to approximately one-quarter of the Canadian population — are expected to die annually due to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) worldwide by 2050. Researchers in Dr. Manish Sadarangani’s lab at the Vaccine Evaluation Center at BC Children’s argue that targeted vaccines are needed to help reduce such loss of life.
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Congratulations CIHR Spring 2023 Project Grant recipients
Congratulations 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. Our research community received around $8 million in new research grants as principal…
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We are what we eat — following a passion for food and nutrition to research on IBD
Dr. Genelle Lunken started running at age three. She leapt into track and field, kickball, as well as rugby — even though it was considered a “boy’s sport” in her native New Zealand — tennis, volleyball, cricket, golf — even lawn bowling. She also rolled into gymnastics, “But I was terrible at that. I was…
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