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) | Cancer of the Reproductive System, Host-Tumour Interaction, Endometriosis, Cancer Diagnosis and Detection, Immunotherapy, microenvironment, endometriosis associated cancers, Immunology, genomics, gene-expression and transcriptomics, Cancer prevention, ovarian cancer etiology, early detection biomarkers, animal models of endometriosis and cancer |
| Ansermino, John Mark | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Global Health and Emerging Diseases, Health Information Systems, Biomedical Technologies, Technological Innovations, Global Health, Physiological Monitoring, Precision Health, Mobile Health, Outcome prediction, Sepsis in children, Artificial Intellegence, Automation in healthcare |
| 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) | Perinatal Period, Drugs and Pregnancy / Breast Feeding, Maternal Mental Health, Pregnancy Outcomes, Perinatal Anxiety, Prenatal Cannabis Use, Developmental Outcomes |
| 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) | IVF, MIS, robotic surgery, fertility preservation in cancer patients, and endometriosis |
| 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) | Epidemiology, Vaccination, Infectious Diseases, Health Promotion, Community Health / Public Health, Infectious disease epidemiology, vaccine clinical trials, vaccine safety, vaccine programs, Vaccine hesitancy |
| Brown, Carolyn Janet | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Gene Regulation and Expression, Chromosomes: Structure / Organization, Applied Genetics, Epigenetic control of gene expression, X-chromosome inactivation, Long non-coding RNAs, XIST RNA, Genes escaping X-chromosome inactivation, DNA methylation |
| Brown, Kelly | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Diseases of the Immune System, Immune Mediators: Cytokines and Chemokines, Cell Signaling and Infectious and Immune Diseases, childhood rheumatic diseases, phagocytes |
| Brussoni, Mariana | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | injury prevention, accident prevention, fathering, risk-taking |
| Conibear, Elizabeth | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Molecular Genetics, Cell Signaling and Cancer, Genomics and Proteomics, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Membranes, Enzymes and Proteins, Parkinson's Disease, Protein Palmitoylation, Vesicle Trafficking |
| Dennis, Jessica | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Complex Trait Genetics, Genetics of Neurological and Psychiatric Diseases, Epidemiology, Mental Health and Psychopathology in Children and Youth, Bioinformatics, genetic epidemiology, statistical genetics, Precision Health, Electronic health records, Administrative health data, Machine Learning |
| Devlin, Angela | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Obesity, Children, cardiovascular disease, Diabetes, developmental programming |
| 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) | Emergency Medicine, Health Services |
| 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 |
| Friedman, Jan Marshall | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Genetics and Heredity, Developmental Genetics, Genomics, Application of whole genome sequencing to diagnose genetic disease, Clinical genomics, Neurofibromatosis, Birth defects epidemiology |
| Galea, Liisa Ann Margaret | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Hormones and Growth Factors, Depression, Neurogenesis and Gliogenesis, Cognition, Postpartum Depression, Drugs and Pregnancy / Breast Feeding, Aging Process, Alzheimer's Disease, Learning and Memory, hippocampus, Sex differences, neuroplasticity, estrogens, 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 Diseases, Chromosomes: Structure / Organization, Epigenetics |
| Goerges, Matthias | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Biomedical Technologies, Artificial Intelligence, Decision Making, Software Development, Health Care Technologies, Human Computer Interaction and Design, Medical informatics, decision support systems, predictive analytics, Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine |
| 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 Diseases, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Huntington disease, Disease progression, Diabetes, Neurodegenerative disorders, Gene Therapy, Drug development |
| 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) | 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) | Lifestyle Determinants and Health, Social Determinants of Health, Perinatal Period, Gestation / Parturition, maternal child health, health of marginalized women, mobile health for pregnancy and parenting |
| Jarus, Tal | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | diversifying health and human service professions, Disabled students;, disabled practitioners;, art-based research |
| Joseph, K.S. | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Pregnancy complications, preterm birth, fetal growth, infant mortality, neonatal |
| Kobor, Michael | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Epigenetics, Social Epigenetics, molecular biology, Chromatin Biology |
| Korthauer, Keegan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Statistical genomics, Epigenomics, Single-cell analysis |
| Lamers, Yvonne | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Nutrition, Nutrients, Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms, Breast Feeding and Infant Nutrition, Nutritional Biochemistry, Micronutrients, Vitamins, Nutritional Biomarker, Pregnancy, Periconceptional folic acid supplementation, Prenatal Supplements, Newborn Screening, Toddler Nutrition, Clinical Chemistry, Maternal and child health |
| Lange, Dirk | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Ureteral stents, antifouling coatings, antimicrobial coatings, device complications |
| Lange, Philipp | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Cell Signaling and Cancer, Bioinformatics, Proteomics, pediatric cancer, post translational protein modification, personalized medicine, mass spectrometry |
| Langlois, Sylvie | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Studies of genotype/phenotype correlations in single gene disorders; Validations of genomic tools for the study of mental retardation and prenatal screening for aneuploidy; Outcome studies related to prenatal genetic screening |
| Lavoie, Pascal | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Neonatal Immunity, Infection/Inflammation, Inheritance/Genetics of Neonatal Morbidities, Neonatal Chronic Lung Disease |
| Leavitt, Blair | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Neurodegenerative Diseases, Alzheimer's Disease, Dementia, Ataxia, Huntington disease, Neurogenetics, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Frontotemporal Dementia, Mouse models of disease, Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells, Gene regulation, Experimental Therapeutics, Gene Silencing and Gene Editing, Gene Therapy, Medical Genetics |
| Lehman, Anna Michelle | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Adams-Oliver syndrome, Hereditary spastic paraplegia, Ischiospinal dysostosis, Jeune syndrome, Genetic causes of nonsyndromic intellectual disability, Novel multiple congenital anomaly syndromes, Neurodegenerative disorders, Genes and Gene Therapy, Childhood Diseases |