2022/23 PATHOLOGY ANNUAL REPORT IS NOW AVAILABLE!

2022/23 Annual Report packed with statistical insights from the past year is available here . We want to extend our gratitude to everyone who contributed to our success throughout the year. Your support and collaboration have been instrumental in helping us achieve our goals.

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR DIAGNOSTIC & MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY R5s FOR PASSING THE ROYAL COLLEGE EXAM

We are pleased to announce that our R5s have successfully passed their Diagnostic & Molecular Pathology (Anatomical Pathology) Royal College exam. In accordance with the new CBD format, the written exam took place earlier in the spring, followed by the oral exam in the Fall. Please join us in extending our congratulations to: Ardalan Akbari, Jamie Lee, Collin Pryma, Deepak Toor . Let us offer our best wishes as our R5s embark on the final stage of CBD - the Transition to Practice

NEW FUNDING

Congratulations to Drs. Poul Sorensen and Gregg Morin at BC Cancer for being awarded $500,000 USD from The Osteosarcoma Institute for their project titled “Harnessing the osteosarcoma surfaceome for immunotherapy targets to block metastatic capacity”. Read more about their project.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

We're excited to share that 📚 'Modernizing Global Health Security to Prevent, Detect, and Respond,' a book with contributions from our department member Dr. Lucy Perrone, has been published! Dr. Perrone led the writing of Chapter 16 - Global Laboratory Systems. It was a 3-year effort involving many, many authors in many different countries! 🙌 You can find more details and get your copy here. 📖🔍

Dr. Lucy Perrone's team has just published another paper. Titled 'Do not blindly trust negative diagnostic test results, ' this laboratory quality opinion piece was collaboratively written with LQM partners at EQALM. Read the paper here here to learn more.

Researchers in UBC’s Neurology Fluid Biomarker Network and in the Wellington Lab published two papers that are focused on creating reference intervals for blood-based neurology biomarkers. Learn more about their research and goals for the network here.

A new paper by Yongjin P. Park titled 'Tree-structured topic modeling of single-cell gene expression data uncovers hierarchical relationships between immune cell types' Explore the paper and uncover the fascinating hierarchical relationships between immune cell types. Read it here.

Dr. Lange contributed to the newly published paper 'Targetable lesions and proteomes predict therapy sensitivity through disease evolution in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia.' This research sheds light on the predictive power of targetable lesions and proteomes in therapy sensitivity during the evolution of pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Read the full paper here.

HIGHLIGHTED EVENT(S)

Government of Canada invests $15M in first-of-its-kind Pan-Canadian Genome Library

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Best Practices in a Hybrid Work Environment

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Postdoctoral Instructional Skills Workshop – November 25, 26, December 2 & 3, 2023

This postdoc-specific ISW will be held on November 25, 26, December 2 & 3, 2023 and some online pre-work is required in the weeks preceding the sessions. more info

Graduate Instructional Skills Workshop – November 18, 19 & 25, 2023 (Preliminary Application)

This workshop consists of teaching practice, theory application, and topical sessions specifically relevant to Teaching Assistants and Graduate Students at UBC. During the workshop you will teach 3 short lessons and receive feedback from your peers. You will work closely with peers and trained facilitators (who are themselves UBC graduate students). In this supportive atmosphere you will have a chance to begin to develop new teaching skills, to enhance existing skills, and/or to try new and challenging ideas. Read More

Qualtrics Studio – November 27, 2023

UBC supports the Qualtrics survey tool. Qualtrics is a powerful tool that offers UBC faculty, and staff new functionality in survey creation, data analysis, and reporting. Join us for the monthly Qualtrics studio virtual workshop and drop-in session. The session is geared towards UBC faculty and staff using Qualtrics as a teaching and research tool. Read More

CTLT Generative AI Support Clinic (Online Drop-in) – November 29, 2023

The Generative AI Drop-In clinics are open for all faculty and staff at UBC and UBC Okanagan on teaching and learning topics to do with the use of tools such as ChatGPT, Stability AI, Google Bard and others. The sessions will be in an open-hours format where the questions will be answered such that all can hear the answers. Participants can either come prepared with a list of questions or drop by to hear what others are asking. Specialists at the clinic will assist you in addressing those questions. Please note, as there are currently no Generative AI Tools that have been through a Privacy Impact Assessment they cannot be required for student use unless an alternative is provided such that students do not need to provide private information in using any such tool. CTLT does not endorse the use of any specific Generative AI tool. Read More