Thursday, July 22, 2010
Congratulations to Courteney Lai (Humphries Lab) and
Long Nguyen (Eaves lab) who have been awarded Frederick Banting and Charles
Best Canada Graduate Scholarships (CGS) Master's Awards by the Canadian Institutes
of Health Research (CIHR).
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Laura Guillon (Takei Lab) has been awarded a Frederick Banting and Charles
Best Canada Graduate Scholarships (CGS) Master's Award by the Canadian Institutes
of Health Research (CIHR).
Monday, June 28, 2010
Congratulations to Dr. Peter Lansdorp who has just been awarded a 4-year research grant entitled "Chromatin maintenance and sister chromatid differentiation" by NIH.
Friday, June 25, 2010
Dr. Richard Keith Humphries has been appointed the new Director of the Terry Fox Laboratory, effective July 1st, 2010. Please join us in welcoming Keith into his new position.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Congratulations to Dr. Ryan Brinkman who has been promoted to
Associate Professor in Medical Genetics, UBC
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Congratulations to Dr. R. Keith Humphries who has recently been awarded a 2-year research grant entitled "Functional validation of EZH2 Tyr641 mutationsi n lymphomagenesis" by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Congratulations to Dr. Peter Lansdorp who, along with 7 other scientists from the Agency, was awarded a 3-year Terry Fox New Frontiers Grant entitled "CIHR Team in the genomics of forme fruste tumours: new vistas on cancer biology and management" by CIHR.
Friday, April 23, 2010
Congratulations to Harry Chang (Humphries lab) who is granted a Stem Cell Network training award for his research project on expansion of murine hematopoietic stem cells.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Tim Halim (Takei Lab) has been awarded a Frederick Banting and
Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship Doctoral Award from CIHR.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Congratulations to Dr. Xiaoyan Jiang who has been awarded a 3-year research grant entitled "Targeting
leukemic stem cells to improve treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia
" by the Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute.
Congratulations to Dr. Ryan Brinkman who has been awarded a 3-year research
grant entitled "Statistical
and bioinformatics approaches to the classification of clinical lymphoma and
leukemia data" by the Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Congratulations to Dr. Emily Mace (Takei Lab) who successfully
defended
her PhD thesis in Genetics.
Friday, March 5, 2010
Congratulations to Donna DeGeer (Jiang Lab) who successfully defended her
MSc thesis in Medical Genetics.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Congratulations to Adrian Cortes (Brinkman Lab) who successfully defended
his MSc thesis in Bioinformatics.
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
A paper entitled "Identification of sister chromatids by DNA
template strand sequences" by Dr. Ester Falconer, Dr. Peter Lansdorp, et al.
has been published in Nature (2010 Jan 7;463:93-7).
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Congratulations to Dr. Andrew Muranyi (Hogge Lab) who successfully defended
his PhD thesis in Genetics.
Monday, September 14, 2009
Representing the Terry Fox Laboratory, Dr. Andrew Weng,
participated and led the 2009 Terry Fox Run in Garry Point Park, Richmond on Sep 13th, an
event raised over $10,000 for cancer research.
Wednesday, July 23, 2009
Congratulations to Dr. Mark Romanish (Mager Lab) who successfully defended
his PhD thesis in Genetics.
Monday, June 29, 2009
Congratulations to Dr. Dixie Mager who has been awarded a 5-year research grant entitled "Effects of transposable elements on mammalian genomes" by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Congratulations to Dr. Xiaoyan Jiang who has been awarded a research grant
entitled "Targeting CML stem cells by combination therapy of ABL and JAK2 inhibitors" by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Congratulations to Dr. Donna Hogge who received the Martin M. Hoffman Award
for Excellence in Research 2008-2009 at the Department of Medicine's Awards
night.
Friday, May 1, 2009
Winners of the April Photo Competition are Sonya Lam (Weng Lab) and Ying
Zhang (Mager Lab). Their winning pictures are showcased in today's WIP and
on the TFL website.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Congratulations to Maisam Makarem (Eaves Lab) who has been awarded a Frederick Banting and Charles
Best Canada Graduate Scholarships (CGS) Doctoral Award by the Canadian Institutes
of Health Research (CIHR).
Monday, April 27, 2009
Congratulations to Dr. Xiaoyan Jiang, who has been promoted to Associate Professor,
Medical Genetics, UBC.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Hoodless who has been awarded a three-year
grant-in-aid entitled "Valve formation in the mouse atrioventricular canal" by
the Heart and Stroke Foundation of BC and Yukon.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Congratulations to Ben Lai (Mager Lab) who has been awarded a 2-year NSERC Alexander Graham
Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS).
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Congratulations to Dr. Ryan Brinkman who has been awarded a one-year
grant entitled "Statistical analysis of clinical lymphoma data for automated
quality assurance of diagnosis and biomarker identification" by the Canadian
Institutes of Health Research.
Friday, March 13, 2009
Congratulations to Katherine Miceli (Mager lab) who has been
awarded a University Graduate Fellowship from UBC.
Friday, January 30, 2009
Winners of the January Photo Competition are Ali Hassan (Hoodless
Lab) and Ying Zhang (Mager Lab). Their winning pictures are showcased in today's WIP
and on the TFL website.
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Ben Lai (Mager Lab) has been awarded a Pacific Century University Graduate
Fellowship from UBC.
Friday, December 5, 2008
Congratulations to Maisam Makarem (Eaves Lab), winner of a poster prize at
the UBC Genetics Program Retreat on December 3.
Friday, December 5, 2008
Congratulations to David Kent (Eaves Lab), winner of a poster prize at the
UBC Genetics Program Retreat on December 3.
Friday, December 5, 2008
Congratulations to Mark Romanish (Mager Lab) winner of a
poster prize at the genetics graduate program/bioinformatics training
program at the UBC Genetics retreat on December 3rd.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Congratulations to Dr. Juan Hou (Hoodless Lab) who won Best Poster for Basic
Science Research: Pre-Human, Discovery Oriented Research" at the 2008 Annual BC Cancer Conference.
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Congratulations to Peter Eirew and co-authors on their exciting study
published Nov. 23rd in Nature Medicine titled “A method for quantifying
normal human mammary epithelial stem cells with in vivo regenerative
ability”.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Congratulations to Kristen McKnight (Hoodless Lab) who was awarded Best Poster Prize at the 2008 Mouse Genetics & Genomics
Conference (CSHL, New York).
Friday, November 7, 2008
Congratulations to David Kent (Eaves Lab) who has won Best Poster
at the Stem Cell Network 2008 Annual General Meeting.
Friday, October 31, 2008
The TFL star photographers of October are Dr. Mark Hills (first place
winner) and Ali Hassan (double second place winner for September and
October). Their winning pictures are going to be showcased in today's WIP as
well as on the front page of the TFL website.
Friday, October 31, 2008
Congratulations to Dr. Dixie Mager who has been awarded a five-year Emerging Team grant entitled "Vectors, epigenetics and stem cell reprogramming"
by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
Wednesday, Oct 28, 2008
Congratulations to Dr. Peter Lansdorp and Dr. Keith Humphries who have been
awarded a five-year Emerging Team grant entitled "Chromatin marks in normal
and malignant stem cells" by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
Friday, October 3, 2008
Congratulations to Jennifer Danielson and Ali Hassan who have won the
September photo competition with fabulous cash prizes. The winning pictures
were showcased in today's WIP. They are also posted on the front page of
this website.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
TFL has launched a monthly photo competition. The competition is open to all
current TFL trainees, technicians, and supporting team members to capture
and illustrate their work in photographic images.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Congratulations to Dr. Xiaoyan Jiang who has been awarded a grant
entitled "Molecular and functional characterization of an AHI-1-BCR-ABL
interaction complex in chronic myeloid leukemia" by the Cancer Research
Society.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Congratulations to Dr. Fumio Takei who has been awarded a grant
entitled "Anti-tumor immune responses mediated by NKDC" by The Cancer
Research Society Inc.
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Congratulations to Dr. Andrew Weng who has been awarded a grant
entitled "IGF1R is a potential therapeutic target in T-ALL" by the Bertrand
& Nelia Galloway Fund for Research and Leukemia, UBC.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Congratulations to Dr. Connie Eaves who has been recognized with a
UBC Faculty of Medicine Distinguished Achievement Award for outstanding
contributions by a senior faculty member.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Congratulations to Maisam Makarem (Eaves Lab) who has been awarded a Frederick Banting
and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarships (CGS) Master's Award by the
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Congratulations to Dr. Keith Humphries and Dr. Connie Eaves who have been awarded a
team grant along with other 5 investigators, entitled "Generation of Normal, Expanded & Leukemic HSCs
from Novel Cell Sources" by the Stem Cell Network.
Friday, July 4, 2008
Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Hoodless who has been awarded a grant
entitled "Formation and patterning of the definitive endoderm" by the
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).
Congratulations to Dr. Aly Karsan who has been awarded a grant entitled
"Innate immune signaling in hematopoiesis" by the Canadian Institutes of
Health Research (CIHR).
Congratulations to Dr. Aly Karsan who has been awarded a second grant
entitled "Endothelial to mesenchymal transformation" by the Canadian
Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).
Monday, June 16, 2008
Congratulations to Dr. Xiaoyan Jiang who has been awarded a grant entitled
"Molecular and functional characterization of AH-1 in human cutaneous T-cell
lymphomas" by
the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada.
Monday, June 16, 2008
Congratulations to Dr. Fumio Takei who has been awarded a grant entitled
"Natural killer cell development in Ikaros-deficient mice" by The Leukemia
and Lymphoma Society of Canada.
Friday, June 13, 2008
Congratulations to Dr. Connie Eaves who has been awarded a grant
entitled "Characterization of human mammary epithelial stem cells" by the
National Cancer Institute of Canada with the Canadian Breast Cancer Research
Alliance (NCIC/CBCRA).
Friday, April 11, 2008
Michelle Decker (Lansdorp Lab) has been awarded a Frederick Banting
and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarships (CGS) Doctoral Award by the
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Ján Tkáč (Lansdorp Lab) has been awarded a Postgraduate
Scholarship (M.Sc.) by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of
Canada.
Tuesday April 8, 2008
Congratulations to Dr. Fumio Takei who has been awarded a grant entitled "Generation and regulation of NK cell
diversity" by NCI(C).
Friday, April 4, 2008
Dr. Keith Humphries has been appointed the Deputy Director of the Terry
Fox Laboratory.
Dr. Xiaoyan Jiang has been appointed to a Senior Scientist at the Terry
Fox Laboratory.
Dr. Aly Karsan now holds a cross-appointment at the Terry Fox
Laboratory.
Friday, April 4, 2008
Dr. Pamela Hoodless has been promoted to Associate Professor in Medical
Genetics, UBC.
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Vicky Chang (Humphries Lab) has been awarded a Summer Student Research funding by the Faculty of Medicine of UBC.
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Grace Lin (Humphries Lab) has been awarded the 2008 BC Cancer Studentship by the BC Cancer Foundation and the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Dr. Hind Medyouf (Weng Lab) has been awarded a Post-doctoral
Fellowship by the International Human Frontier Science Program
Organization on March 31st, 2008
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Dr. Hind Medyouf (Weng Lab) has been awarded a Research Prize at the
French Society of Hematology meeting "Prix Laurette Fugain" that took
place in Paris during March 20-22, 2008.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Dr. Connie Eaves is the recipient of the 2008 ISEH Metcalf
Honorary Lecture and Award which recognizes distinguished scientists in the field of experimental
haematology.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Dr. Ali Bashashati (Brinkman Lab) has been awarded a MSFHR
Postdoctoral Fellowship. Melisa Hamilton (Krystal Lab) has been awarded a MSFHR Senior
Graduate Studentship. Tim Halim (Takei Lab) has been awarded a MSFHR Junior Graduate
Studentship.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Ying Zhang (Mager Lab) has been awarded an NSERC Alexander Graham
Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS).
Friday, March 28, 2008
Dr. Ryan Brinkman is the recipient of a HeRRO CIHR Pillars 3 and 4
Development Program Award.
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Dr. Peter Lansdorp has been
awarded a prestigious UBC Killam Award in the
Science category.
Congratulations to Drs. Rob Kay, Keith Humphries and Connie Eaves who
were successful in the Fall 2007 round of CIHR grants competitions.