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Congratulations to Fardowsa Yusuf (pictured left), MSc who has been awarded the CIHR Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship Doctoral Award for her research on the Multiple Sclerosis (MS) prodrome. Yusuf is jointly supervised by DMCBH member Dr. Helen Tremlett (pictured right) and Dr. Mohammad Ehsanul (Ehsan) Karim in UBC’s School of Population and Public Health.
UBC researchers are the first in the world to publish structural images of the N501Y mutation on the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein—a change believed to be partly responsible for the highly infectious nature and rapid spread of variant B.1.1.7.
Over the course of the pandemic, more young people than ever have been seeking mental health support, which has been especially challenging with restrictions changing the ways services are accessed.
Throughout the last year many organizations have found ways to adapt and are looking towards new models of service in the future. An important part of doing this successfully is making sure programs, services and research projects are designed and evaluated with the needs of young people and families in mind.
A team of researchers led by DMCBH member Dr. Tim Murphy has created a synthetic animated mouse which can be used to train machine learning algorithms to analyze animal behaviour, the details of which were published this week in Nature Methods.
When a mysterious neurological disease was recently discovered in New Brunswick, Dr. Neil Cashman, a clinician-scientist in the Faculty of Medicine’s Division of Neurology and member of the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, was called into action.
A medical device that has been shown to manage pain among babies born preterm can also help keep their brain oxygen levels steady during medical procedures, finds new analysis by researchers at UBC.
It started as a research project to track student mental health over an entire term at university.
Then, four weeks into the 13-week study, COVID-19 hit.
COVID-19 has been especially challenging for people living with dementia, their families and caregivers, confirms a new study published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.
The study uncovers the complex effects of the pandemic on more than 400 people in this community in B.C., and identifies their unique needs.
UBC’s Office of the Vice-President, Research & Innovation recently announced 35 emerging and established research excellence clusters that will be supported with funding in 2021/22. Four of these Research Excellence Clusters are led by DMCBH researchers.
The need for new therapies and state-of-the-art care for Canadians with Alzheimer’s disease has motivated three longtime friends to donate $3 million to the UBC Faculty of Medicine for research to identify ways to protect the brain as Alzheimer’s progresses.
The gift from the McArthur, Aune and Copland families will support a new project to investigate the processes that lead to oxidative stress, an imbalance of pro-oxidants and antioxidants associated with cell damage that is a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease.
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