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September 12, 2018UBC breakthrough opens door to $100 ultrasound machine
Read the original UBC media release here. Engineers at the University of British Columbia have developed a new ultrasound transducer, or probe, that could dramatically lower the cost of ultrasound scanners to as little as $100. Their patent-pending innovation—no bigger than a Band-Aid…
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September 12, 2018Dr. Martin Gleave appointed to the Order of Canada
Read the original VCHRI News story here. Dr. Martin Gleave was recently named a member of the Order of Canada, one of the country’s highest civilian honours, for his leadership role in developing new treatments for prostate cancer and for his research on the mechanisms involved in…
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August 20, 2018Super-resolution microscope reveals secrets of deadly Nipah virus
Cluster member Dr. Ken Chou and postdoctoral fellow Dr. Qian Liu where published in Nature Communications for their work using super-resolution microscopy to reveal secrets of the deadly Nipah virus. Their discovery suggests that the assembly of some highly infectious enveloped…
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August 14, 2018One-on-One with Peter Zandstra
Biomedical Imaging and Artificial Intelligence Cluster Lead Peter Zandstra sits down one on one with the Faculty of Medicine to discuss his return as Founding Director of UBC’s School of Biomedical Engineering. Today, he is helping to build UBC’s capacity in one of the…
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July 27, 2018
Dr. Gleave awarded the 2018 Dr. Chew Wei Memorial Prize in Cancer Research
Martin Gleave’s work to improve outcomes from prostate cancer has spanned surgery, molecular manipulation in the search for new treatments, and managing the challenge of taking lab discoveries to market. Dr. Gleave, the Executive Director of the Vancouver Prostate Centre, has focused much…