Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UBC
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine #G-105 2211 Wesbrook Mall V6T 2B5 Vancouver, BC, Canada

Lab physicians, Drs. Vilte Barakauskas and Kate Chipperfield, at BC Children's and Women's hospital, alongside patient co-leads are spearheading the P2RISM study (Pregnancy and Pediatric Reference Intervals for Safe Medicine) to help improve care for pregnant women and newborns. Healthcare relies heavily on the lab and reference intervals (RIs) to guide test interpretation and patient management, but did you ever wonder how we know what is normal or abnormal? RIs should repr...esent the intended population and method of testing. However, current RIs for pregnant women and neonates are poorly characterized owing to their quickly changing physiology and difficulty in obtaining blood samples from babies. This study aims to recruit healthy pregnant women and newborns to donate blood samples at 24 hours after delivery (while in hospital with routine tests). These blood samples will be used to calculate normal ranges for several routine blood tests for postpartum mothers and newborns in order to create RIs that clinicians and patients can be confident in. If you, or someone you know is interested in participating, fill out the expression of interest survey and a research team member will be in touch with you as soon as possible. More information and contact info can be found at: http://www.bcchr.ca/prism

CAREER OPPORTUNITY: Assistant or Associate Professor (Tenure Track) | Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine | Department of Statistics| BC Cancer Research https://pathology.ubc.ca/job-opportunities/

Online course on Biospecimen Research Methods Enrollment is now open! Class begins June 3rd, 2019 and continues until July 15, 2019 Transform the quality of your research and earn a UBCx Professional Education Certificate by learning the nternational best practices for collecting, storing, and using human biospecimens in the laboratory.... Biospecimen Research Methods is an online course offered by UBC in partnership with www.edx.org. This 6-week, self-paced course has been designed to be flexible with your schedule. Biospecimen Research Methods is delivered over 6 weeks and can be completed in approximately 2-4 hours a week from anywhere, at any-time. Professionals with extensive experience in biobanking from the University of British Columbia and BC Cancer will teach you the international best practices for biobanking and research involving human biospecimens, based on National Cancer Institute (NCI) and International Society of Biological Environmental Repositories (ISBER) standards. The course was designed for researchers at any level, including graduate and undergraduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and research technicians, who plan to work with human biospecimens. Learn more about Biospecimen Research Methods and enroll today! https://goo.gl/MeH1gU Questions? Please contact [email protected]

UBC Pathology Student Association (PaSA) would like to invite faculties, students, families, and friends to join this year's Arts Gala on Wednesday, May 8th, 5:30pm - 9:00pm, UBC Medical Student & Alumni Centre (MSAC). Take a mid-week break to enjoy some fun arts, crafts, music, and trivia! This year, we want to include everyone in bringing together scientists and artists from the department to display their many talents. Everyone is invited to join (family friendly). If you ...have any personal visual arts/science photos you would like to submit for display, please send them to [email protected]. Food and drinks are provided at the event. Please RSVP here online. https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/arts-gala-2019-tickets-60240931

Our latest newsletter is now available with updates, photos and stories of what is going on at Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Department, UBC http://file.pathology.ubc.ca/N/PathologyNewsletter2019.html

Job Opportunity: Bioinformatics Scientific Programmer; Are you interested in developing software to enable real-time disease surveillance and outbreak investigations, and playing a critical role in a national and international collaboration involving academic researchers, industrial partners and provincial and federal laboratories? The Hsiao Laboratory (https://pathology.ubc.ca/faculty/william-hsiao/) at BC Centre for Disease Control Public Health Laboratory (academic affiliations with University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University) has an immediate opening for a scientific programmer position. https://pathology.ubc.ca/job-opportunities/

Job Opportunity: A Research Associate (RA) position is available immediately at the University of British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (UBC CDC)/Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. https://www.hr.ubc.ca/jobs/faculty.php?job_id=32452

Job Opportunity: A postdoctoral fellowship position is available in Single Cell Genomics, Molecular Biology in the Aparicio Lab based at the BC Cancer Research Centre in Vancouver, Canada, collaborating on an exciting project mapping clonal dynamics in human cancers with new single cell methods. https://www.hr.ubc.ca/jobs/faculty.php?job_id=32021

Date: May 24, 2019 Abstract deadline: March 25, 2019 at 10 am Path Awards deadline: April 1, 2019 at 5 pm Speakers:... Faculty: Peter Watson and Marianne Sadar James Hogg Lecturer: Blake Gilks Keynote Speaker: Andy Beck from AI More information will be available in the coming months. We look forward to seeing you at Pathology Day 2019. See more

Biospecimen Research Methods: Enrollment is now open! Class begins February 5th, 2019. Biospecimen Research Methods is a UBCx online professional education course offered from www.edx.org. This course will help you transform the quality of your research by teaching you the biobanking best practices to collect, store and use human biospecimens in the laboratory. This 6-week, self-paced course has been designed to be flexible with your schedule. Biospecimen Research Methods is... delivered over 6 weeks and can be completed in approximately 2-4 hours a week from anywhere, at any-time. Professionals with extensive experience in biobanking from the University of British Columbia and the British Columbia Cancer Agency will teach you the international best practices for biobanking and research involving human biospecimens, based on National Cancer Institute (NCI) and International Society of Biological Environmental Repositories (ISBER) standards. https://pathology.ubc.ca/education-resour//upcomin-events/

Four members of the UBC Faculty of Medicine, Dept of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine have been named to the Highly Cited Researchers 2018 List: Samuel Aparicio, Randy Gascoyne, David Huntsman, Ian Mackenzie. The prestigious list is part of the Clarivate Analytics report, 'The World's Most Influential Scientific Minds 2018' https://www.med.ubc.ca/14-faculty-members-named-to-global/

The Faculty of Medicine is investing in achieving our strategic objectives: Dr. Peter Watson has been chosen to receive a strategic investment funding from the Faculty of Medicine, UBC. The title of his project was 'Biospecimen Navigator Platform'. We congratulate Dr. Watson on his successful application! The deadline for the spring 2019 round is February 28, 2019. https://mednet.med.ubc.ca//Strategic-In/Pages/default.aspx

ROBERT F. KALLMAN RADIATION ONCOLOGY AWARD 2018 Reflecting a legacy of excellence in radiation oncology research at BC Cancer, Andrew Minchinton received the 2018 Robert F. Kallman Award for academic leadership, scientific excellence, service to the profession and commitment to colleagues, students and Stanford University. Dr. Minchinton is the second BC Cancer scientist to receive the award after Peggy Olive in 2008 and makes BC Cancer the only institution to have two awarde...es. It's a particularly gratifying award for me because I became friends with Bob Kallman early in my career and he encouraged me to take on some of the more daunting challenges in radiation biology, Minchinton commented. The quantitative assessment of hypoxia and vascular function through novel imaging techniques and the development of 3D tissue models and their use in the development of drugs designed to improve radiation therapy might be the fruit of that encouragement. Kallman’s wife Ingrid and daughter Robyn were present at the award ceremony at Stanford University in California. Following the memorial lecture the award was presented by Stanford Professors J. Martin Brown (Emeritus Prof. Radiation Oncology), Amato Giaccia (Director of Radiation & Cancer Biology) and Quynh-Thu Le (Chair of Radiation Oncology).