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This past August, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research announced their Fall 2025 project grants and the Vancouver community cleaned up! Check out our August Award Summary to see which researchers have shiny, new grants, accolades, and more. 📋 https://t.co/C9NcDDgZcS

🚽💡 Sewage holds secrets. In our new Nice Genes! episode, Dr. Kaylee Byers & guests reveal how wastewater surveillance tracks outbreaks—from early warnings to chasing polio in Nigeria. 💩 Genomics solves “poo dunnit.” 🎧 Listen: https://t.co/S1CM6AShyL

#FundingAnnouncement 📢 Are you a health care professional conducting innovative research at @VCHhealthcare or @Providence_Hlth? Apply for our Innovation & Translational Research Awards today! Register by Nov. 3: https://t.co/FQrsQn2Isp @VGHFdn @UBC @PHCResearch

Looking for the best life science events in Vancouver to fill your calendar this fall? From BC Cancer Research Day to Crafting Visual Explanations of Complex Science, we've got you covered. 📆 View the full calendar and never miss an event: https://t.co/mJF2NcFemt

🔬 Curious about advanced imaging? Join Dr. Miki Fujita for an intro to the UBC BioImaging Facility (BIF) — from confocal to cryo-EM, discover how BIF supports #research across biology & materials science. 📅 Sep 10, 2025 | 🕒1-2 PM | 📍 2355 East Mall (UBC AMPEL RM 311) or

The vaccine revolution is being powered by RNA technology and Canada is uniquely positioned to lead it. 🍁 💉 Check out the work on self-amplifying #RNA by the @AnnaBlakney Lab and on #LNPs by the Cullis lab to learn how @UBC is staying at the forefront of vaccine research:

📅 September 5th is World Spinal Cord Injury Day! This year’s theme from the The International Spinal Cord Society - ISCOS is “Fall Prevention, Spinal Cord Protection.” Falls continue to be one of the leading causes of spinal cord injury. Learn more: https://t.co/R1l8HfYd4S

View the agenda for the Julian Davies Memorial Symposium!: https://t.co/e0eiACbU7B Please complete this form by September 15 to register to attend: https://t.co/EZkIIRFNjt

☀️🔬 Another summer of science is in the books! From hands-on experiments to real-world #Genomics, Geneskool’s #SummerScience Programs sparked curiosity and inspired the next generation of researchers. 🌱🧬 Here’s to a future full of discovery! 💡✨ #GenomicsEducation

🌫️ #DYK Vancouver currently has the world's worst air quality due to #wildfire smoke? This highlights the urgency of 3 new projects launched to better understand how wildfire smoke impacts: 🔹 People w/ COPD 🔹 Allergy sufferers 🔹 Unborn children ➡️ https://t.co/em4QmLi9c6

Congratulations to the nine UBC faculty members who have been announced by The Royal Society of Canada (@src_rsc) as new Fellows and as Members of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. Learn more: https://t.co/1MvriPwtFC

We're still accepting applications for our Assistant Professor of Teaching in STEM Public Engagement position! Learn more at:

Dr. Kayla King at @UBC has been awarded the 2025 Francis Crick Medal and Lecture by the @royalsociety for contributions to the fields of evolutionary biology and genetics of infectious disease. 👑 Congratulations Dr. King! https://t.co/MosWyLry4O

Dr. Brad Nelson has been named as the Lynda and Murray Farmer Immunotherapy Research Chair! Dr. Nelson is the Founding Director of @BCCancer’s Deeley Research Centre and the Scientific Director of BC Cancer’s provincial Immunotherapy Program. 👏 https://t.co/vNYCzTr9rN

#FundingAnnouncement 📢 Expand your capacity for innovation-driven research that creates new health care knowledge by applying for a VCHRI Investigator Award! Registration closes October 14: https://t.co/bxIsiBdyfZ @VGHFdn @VCHhealthcare @UBCmedicine @GFStrongRRP

🧬Dr. @CarldeBoerPhD's work was highlighted in a recent @Nature article discussing how AI is helping to uncover the roles of #NonCodingDNA in the genome. Learn about the @SBME_UBC scientist's approach using fully artificial DNAs and read the full article: https://t.co/EE4YwqitJ3

The endosomal release efficiency of standard lipid nanoparticles (#LNPs) limits transfection. The Li lab at @ubcpharmacy incorporated a biodegradable polymer into LNPs, using the proton sponge effect to facilitate the endosomal release. Abstract: https://t.co/y3u4aRlz4j

🌌 🔭 Join us on October 6th for @GenomeBC's "Space Genetics"! Hear Dr. Christopher Mason share fascinating details on how the human body and the microbes within us react to spaceflight, whether it’s for a short trip or a long journey. Register: https://t.co/BSRNu8Jc90

🧠 What if cells in your brain could produce the therapy themselves? CereCura Nanotherapeutics' approach uses mRNA and lipid nanoparticles to turn brain cells into “mini factories” that make the proteins needed to fight neuronopathic Gaucher disease. https://t.co/WsQNZFTy4l

The agenda for the Julian Davies Memorial Symposium is now available!: https://t.co/TlifzQD1Bx Please complete this form by September 10 to register to attend: https://t.co/55NBMaukTL @UBCMicroImmuno @UBC