Celebrate Research Week
Celebrate Research Week is an engaging public showcase of events and activities that represent UBC’s strengths and diversity in research. This year's events run from March 2-9, 2012 at UBC’s Vancouver campus and in various locations throughout Vancouver. To learn more about other events taking place during Celebrate Research Week 2012, visit celebrateresearch.ubc.ca.
Past Celebrate Learning Week Events
Featuring a panel of internationally distinguished speakers, Systems Health
explored how personalized medicine is evolving into a holistic view of
health care encompassing a wide range of biological phenomena:
Dr. Nessa Carey, External Research and Development Innovation organization, Pfizer
(Seminar Title: "The epigenetics revolution – why our genetic code is a script and not a blueprint")
Dr. Karen Nelson, director, Rockville, Maryland campus, J. Craig Venter Institute (Seminar Title: "Exploration and recent findings from the human microbiome")
Dr. Ben van Ommen, principal scientist, TNO (Seminar Title: "Phenotypic flexibility and systems health in practice: towards P4 medicine in type 2 diabetes")
A special seminar event was held on March 7 featuring:
Dr. Michael Bliss, CM, PhD, FRSC, University Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of Toronto (Seminar Title: "Resurrections in Toronto: The Emergence of Insulin: 1920-1923")
Dr. Jay Wortman, MD, Senior Medical Advisor, First Nations and Inuit Health Branch, Health Canada (Seminar Title: "My Big Fat Diet")
Dr. Tony K.T. Lam, PhD, Associate Professor of Physiology and Medicine, Toronto General Research Institute, University of Toronto (Seminar Title: "CNS sensing mechanisms in diabetes and obesity")
Dr. Bruce Verchere, PhD, Professor, Departments of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Surgery, University of British Columbia (Seminar Title: "Beta cells in type 2 diabetes and islet transplants")
