Meet key stakeholders in precision health research from across UBC.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…