BC Children's Hospital Research Institute
Our more than 1,000 researchers are driven by a tireless commitment to help children and their families receive the best possible care and live the healthiest possible lives.
Together with our generous and visionary partners, funders and donors, and the families who participate in our research, we are at the forefront of child health. We continuously pursue new discoveries and innovations that benefit not only the 1 million kids in BC and Yukon who depend on us, but also kids around the world.
We are part of BC Children’s Hospital, the only hospital in BC devoted exclusively to pediatric patients. In the lab, clinic and community, our clinicians and scientists are:
- Improving treatments and finding cures
- Developing breakthrough technologies
- Advancing knowledge of child health and development
- Informing policy and practice
We do this through a wide and varied research portfolio organized into four themes: Childhood Diseases; Brain, Behaviour & Development; Healthy Starts; and Evidence to Innovation.
We are supported by BC Children’s Hospital Foundation, are part of the Provincial Health Services Authority, and work in close partnership with the University of British Columbia.
Campus
Vancouver
Affiliated UBC Faculty & Postdocs
| Name | Role | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Afshar, Kourosh | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Genital reconstruction and pediatric renal transplant |
| Anglesio, Michael | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Human reproduction and development sciences; Cancer of the Reproductive System; Host-Tumour Interaction; Endometriosis; Cancer Diagnosis and Detection; Immunotherapy; animal models of endometriosis and cancer; Cancer prevention; early detection biomarkers; endometriosis associated cancers; gene-expression and transcriptomics; genomics; Immunology; microenvironment; ovarian cancer etiology |
| Ansermino, John Mark | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences (except clinical aspects); Global Health and Emerging Diseases; Health information systems; Biomedical Technologies; Technological Innovations; Artificial Intellegence; Automation in healthcare; Global Health; Mobile Health; Outcome prediction; Physiological Monitoring; Precision Health; Sepsis in children |
| Arbour, Laura | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | northern and aboriginal health issues as they pertain to genetics |
| Barr, Alasdair | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Mental health and addictions, with a particular emphasis on psychosis and the medications used in its treatment, Anesthesiology |
| Bayrampour Basmenj, Hamideh | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Human reproduction and development sciences; Perinatal Period; Drugs and Pregnancy / Breast Feeding; Developmental Outcomes; Maternal Mental Health; Perinatal Anxiety; Pregnancy Outcomes; Prenatal Cannabis Use |
| Beasley, Clare Louise | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | identify changes in the brains of individuals with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder that may elucidate the etiology of these disorders and provide clues to novel treatments; white matter pathology and inflammation; effects of antipsychotic medications on the brain |
| Bedaiwy, Mohamed | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Other clinical medicine; Endometriosis; Recurrent Pregnancy Loss; Infertility; Minimally Invasive Surgery |
| Beristain, Alexander Guillermo | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Healthy Starts; cellular and molecular processes that direct trophoblast cell biology in early placental development; Examining the A Disintegrin And Metalloproteinase (ADAM) family in trophoblast biology; Examining the effects of obesity-associated inflammation on the maternal-fetal interface; Identifying gene expression differences in subpopulations of trophoblasts in normal and pathological pregnancies |
| Bettinger, Julie | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Public and population health; Epidemiology; Vaccination; Infectious diseases; Health Promotion; Community Health / Public Health; Infectious disease epidemiology; vaccine clinical trials; Vaccine hesitancy; vaccine programs; vaccine safety |
| Brown, Kelly | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Medical, health and life sciences; childhood rheumatic diseases; Inflammation; phagocytes |
| Brown, Carolyn Janet | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Bioinformatics; Clinical oncology; Genetic medicine; Genomics; Health counselling; Applied Genetics; Chromosomes: Structure / Organization; DNA methylation; Epigenetic control of gene expression; Gene Regulation and Expression; Genes escaping X-chromosome inactivation; Long non-coding RNAs; X-chromosome inactivation; XIST RNA |
| Brussoni, Mariana | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Developmental psychology; Psychosocial, sociocultural and behavioral determinants of health; Population health interventions; injury prevention; Children's outdoor play; Risky play; Parenting; health behaviour change |
| Chang, Wan-Chun | Postdoctoral Fellow | Clinical sciences, n.e.c.; Drug Safety; Pharmacogenomics; Immunotherapy |
| Conibear, Elizabeth | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Genetic medicine; Genomics; Health counselling; Cell Signaling and Cancer; Enzymes and Proteins; Genomics and Proteomics; Membranes; Molecular Genetics; Neurodegenerative diseases; Parkinson's disease; Protein Palmitoylation; Vesicle Trafficking |
| Crowell, Philip | Faculty (non-G+PS member) | |
| Dennis, Jessica | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Bioinformatics; Genetic medicine; Administrative health data; Complex Trait Genetics; Electronic health records; Epidemiology; genetic epidemiology; Genetics of Neurological and Psychiatric Diseases; Machine Learning; Mental Health and Psychopathology in Children and Youth; Precision Health; statistical genetics |
| Devlin, Angela | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Human nutrition and dietetics; Human reproduction and development sciences; Pathology (except oral pathology); cardiovascular disease; Children; developmental programming; Diabetes; Obesity |
| Diamond, Adele | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | executive functions; prefrontal cortex; dopamine; working memory; self-control; self-regulation; cognition; COMT gene; Sex differences; stress; ACEs (adverse childhood experiences); ELS (early life stress); resilience; social determinants of health; ADHD; depression; PTSD; Physical Activity; the arts; mindfulness |
| Dixon, David | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Fixed-bed leaching |
| Doan, Quynh | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Medical, health and life sciences; Health Services; Child and youth mental health; Emergency medicine work load modelling |
| Dosso, Jill | Postdoctoral Fellow | Quality of Life and Aging; Intergenerational Relations; Loss of Independence; Social Aspects of Aging; Cognitive Development; Cognitive Development in Children; Infant / Child Development; Social Determinants of Child and Youth Development; Social Determinants of Health; Health Care Technologies; Health Policies; Telemedicine; Alzheimer's Disease; Anxiety; Cognition; Dementia; Mental Health and Society; Community Health / Public Health; Ethics and Health; Lifestyle Determinants and Health; Technological Innovations; Social, Economical and Political Impacts of Innovations; Robotics and Automation; social robotics; patient experience |
| Dubland, Joshua | Faculty (non-G+PS member) | Rare diseases; Newborn Screening; Biochemical Genetics; Lipids; Metabolism; mass spectrometry |
| Dumont, Guy A | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | biomedical engineering; automatic drug delivery; mobile health; global health; anesthesia; physiological monitoring;, Adaptive control, predictive control, control of distributed parameters systems, advanced process control, applications of wavelet analysis, biomedical applications of control, pulp and paper process control |
| Dutz, Jan Peter | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Immunity in Health & Disease, diabetes, dermatology |
| Eddy, Allison | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Global Heath; acute kidney injury in hospitalized children in Kampala, Uganda |
| Elango, Rajavel | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Protein Nutrition, Maternal-Fetal Nutrition, Childhood Malnutrition, Amino Acid Metabolism, Human Nutrition |
| Elliott, Alison | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Other health sciences; rare disease; genomics; Congenital Malformations; Skeletal and limb anomalies; Genetic Counselling; Health services implementation science |
| Friedman, Jan Marshall | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Bioinformatics; Genetic medicine; Genomics; Health counselling; Application of whole genome sequencing to diagnose genetic disease; Birth defects epidemiology; Clinical genomics; Developmental Genetics; Genetics and Heredity; Neurofibromatosis |
| Galea, Liisa Ann Margaret | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Psychology and cognitive sciences; Aging Process; Alzheimer's disease; cognition; depression; Drugs and Pregnancy / Breast Feeding; estrogens; hippocampus; Hormones and Growth Factors; Learning and Memory; Neurogenesis and Gliogenesis; neuroplasticity; Postpartum Depression; Sex differences; women's health |
| Gantt, Soren | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | cytomegalovirus, Burkitt’s lymphoma, Cytomegalovirus, epstein-barr virus, herpes simplex virus, congenital infection, newborn infection, Burkitt |
| Giaschi, Deborah | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Vision; Visual System; Sensation and Perception; Eye and Visual System Diseases; Infant / Child Development; amblyopia; reading |
| Gibson, William | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Genetic medicine; Genetic Diseases; Chromosomes: Structure / Organization; Epigenetics |
| Goerges, Matthias | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Medical devices; Expert systems technologies in artificial intelligence; Anesthesiology; Electronic health (e-Health); Health information systems (including surveillance); Human-computer systems and interface; Bio-signal processing and analysis; Biomedical Technologies; Artificial Intelligence; decision making; Software Development; Health Care Technologies; Critical Care Medicine; decision support systems; Human Computer Interaction and Design; Medical informatics; predictive analytics |
| Goldman, Ran | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Evidence to Innovation; Pediatric Research in Emergency Therapeutics (PRETx) Program |
| Goldowitz, Daniel | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Genetic basis of brain disease, neurobiology of autism, Huntingtong's gene, mouse/mice epigenetics, gene regulatory network |
| Grunau, Ruth V | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Biobehavioural regulation, brain and neurodevelopment in premature infants and children, Long-term effects of neonatal pain on stress regulation, brain, behavior, neurodevelopment, Infant pain and stress, Parenting stress, parent-infant interaction |
| Harris, Kevin | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Evidence to Innovation; Preventive Cardiology; Cardiovascular Outcomes; Interventional Pediatric Cardiology |
| Hayden, Michael | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Genetic medicine; Health counselling; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Diabetes; Disease progression; Drug development; Gene Therapy; Genetic Diseases; Huntington disease; Neurodegenerative diseases; Neurodegenerative disorders |
| Healey, Genelle | Postdoctoral Fellow | Nutrition; Microbiology; Gastrointestinal Pathologies; Immunology; Inflammatory bowel disease; Gut microbiota |
| Hoffman, Bradford | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Understanding how the genes critical to endocrine pancreas development, as well as ?-cell function and proliferation are regulated is essential for the development of novel strategies for the production of insulin-secreting cells, and for improving the efficacy of available transplantable material. |
| Holsti, Liisa | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Medical, health and life sciences; premature infants; neurodevelopment; stress; pain; measurement; technology transfer; sucrose; rehabilitation; pediatrics |
| Honer, William | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Brain disorders, risk factors for disease |
| Janssen, Patricia | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Health sciences; Public and population health; Gestation / Parturition; health of marginalized women; Lifestyle Determinants and Health; maternal child health; mobile health for pregnancy and parenting; Perinatal Period; social determinants of health |
| Jarus, Tal | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Occupational therapy; Rehabilitation medicine; art-based research; disabled practitioners;; Disabled students;; diversifying health and human service professions |
| Joseph, K.S. | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Pregnancy complications, preterm birth, fetal growth, infant mortality, neonatal |
| Kobor, Michael | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Biochemistry; Bioinformatics; Genetic medicine; Genomics; Chromatin Biology; Epigenetics; molecular biology; Social Epigenetics |
| Korthauer, Keegan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Bioinformatics; Genomics; Statistics; Epigenomics; Single-cell analysis; Statistical genomics |
| Lamers, Yvonne | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Human nutrition and dietetics; Nutrition; Nutrients; Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms; Breast Feeding and Infant Nutrition; Clinical Chemistry; Maternal and child health; Micronutrients; Newborn Screening; Nutritional Biochemistry; Nutritional Biomarker; Periconceptional folic acid supplementation; Pregnancy; Prenatal Supplements; Toddler Nutrition; Vitamins |
| Lang, Donna | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Medical, health and life sciences; Structural Neuroimaging; Psychosis; Addiction; cognition; Cardiovascular Function; Microvascular integrity |