Meet Dr. Rachel Murphy
Drs. Rachel Murphy (pictured) and Andrew Roth (not pictured) are recipients of the 2022/2023 Precision Health Catalyst Grant award for their project entitled “Improving Breast Cancer Screening Efficiency with Administrative Health Data” Read a summary of the project here. “This project aims to use administrative health data to a) develop individualized risk assessment models that […]
Meet Drs. Wang & Dubland
Drs. Ying Wang (left) and Joshua Dubland (right) are recipients of the 2022/2023 Precision Health Catalyst Grant award for their project entitled “Who will benefit from colchicine to reduce heart attacks? Characterizing the baseline inflammation status of patients with coronary atherosclerosis” Read a summary of the project here. “This project aims to provide molecular insights […]
Meet Drs. McGinnis & Stubbins
Drs. Eric McGinnis (left) and Ryan Stubbins (right) are recipients of the 2022/2023 Precision Health Catalyst Grant award for their project entitled “Rapid targeted gene sequencing and high-resolution optical genome mapping to optimize selection of targeted therapies in acute myeloid leukemia” Read a summary of the project here. “This project aims to: 1) Evaluate the […]
Meet Dr. Annie Ciernia
Drs. Annie Ciernia (pictured) and Sheila Teves (not pictured) are recipients of the 2022/2023 Precision Health Catalyst Grant award for their project entitled “Human SPI1 variants alter microglial immune memory to promote neuroinflammation” Read a summary of the project here. “This project aims to identify how GWAS hits in non-coding regions confer disease risk or […]
Meet Dr. Anna Blakney
Drs. Anna Blakney (pictured) and Jayachandran Kizhakkedathu (not pictured) are recipients of the 2022/2023 Precision Health Catalyst Grant award for their project entitled “Next-generation anti-cancer antibody formats enabled through development of novel low immunogenic RNA delivery” Read a summary of the project here. “This project will develop a low immunogenic novel delivery platform that enables […]
Meet Drs. Hanley and Kwon
Drs. Gillian Hanley (left) and Janice Kwon (right) are recipients of the 2021/2022 Precision Health Catalyst Grant award for their project entitled “Precision Health Care to Improve the Quality of Life and Long-term Health of People Entering Premature Surgical Menopause”. Read a summary of the project here. “We aim to generate evidence…for example, an understanding […]
Meet Drs. Loucks and Ross
Drs. Catrina Loucks (left) and Colin Ross (right) are recipients of the 2021/2022 Precision Health Catalyst Grant award for this project entitled “Uncovering patient-specific genetic factors that can be used to optimize morphine-based pain relief while avoiding harm”. Read a summary of the project here. “We have conducted preliminary analyses assessing known genetic variants that […]
Meet Drs. Yuan and MacAulay
Drs. Ren Yuan (left) and Calum Mac Aulay (right) are recipients of the 2021/2022 Precision Health Catalyst Grant award for this project titled “An AI model to predict future lung cancers risk with low-dose screening CT”. Read a summary of the project here. “Our pilot project is to use AI tools to identify sub-visual changes […]
Meet Drs. Talhouk and Tinker
Drs. Aline Talhouk (left) and Anna Tinker (right) are recipients of the UBC Faculty of Medicine 2021/2022 Precision Health Catalyst Grant award for their project titled “Risk evaluation and omics screening for targeting prevention in endometrial cancer”. Read a summary of the project here. “We are investigating precision health tools to help guide screening and prevention […]
Meet Drs. Schrader and Yip
Drs. Kasmintan Schrader (left) and Stephen Yip (right), are recipients of the UBC Faculty of Medicine 2021/2022 Precision Health Catalyst Grant award for their project titled “Parent-of-Origin-Aware Hereditary Cancer Diagnostic and Cascade Genetic Testing”. Read a summary of the project here. “The future of precision health will be driven by constantly evolving technological advancement and the […]