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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lange, Dirk | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Ureteral stents; antifouling coatings; antimicrobial coatings; device complications |
| 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) | Genetic medicine; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Alzheimer's disease; Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis; Ataxia; Dementia; Experimental Therapeutics; Frontotemporal Dementia; Gene regulation; Gene Silencing and Gene Editing; Gene Therapy; Huntington disease; Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells; Medical Genetics; Mouse models of disease; Neurodegenerative diseases; Neurogenetics |
| 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 |
| Leung, Peter C | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Reproductive and molecular endocrinology |
| Levings, Megan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Immunology; Cell therapy; Immune tolerance; Transplantation; Autoimmunity; Gene Therapy; Regulatory T cells |
| Lim, Chinten James | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Cancer progression and metastasis; Solid cancer tumours; Hematological tumours; tumour cell biology; mechanisms of drug resistance; integrin cell adhesion and migration; tumour microenvironment; pediatric oncology |
| Livingstone, Roslyn | Faculty (non-G+PS member) | Occupational therapy; Children with non-ambulant cerebral palsy; Positioning and mobility assistive devices |
| Loock, Christine Ann | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Brain, Behaviour & Development; Social Pediatrics; Health Inequities; Child-health medical-home: children/families, integration / patient care / community services; Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders; Pediatric Sleep Disorders |
| Loucks, Catrina | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Medical, health and life sciences; Pharmacogenomics; Pain management; Medical Genetics; Model organism genetics; Drug reactions |
| Luciani, Dan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Cell metabolism; Cell differentiation, proliferation and death; Organelle function; Other basic medicine and life sciences; Diabetes; Pancreatic beta-cell function and failure; Mitochondrial physiology; Lysosomal physiology; Cell calcium signalling; Cell stress signalling; Mechanisms of cell death; autophagy; Cellular senescence; fluorescence microscopy |
| Lunken, Genelle | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Clinical nutrition; Human nutrition and dietetics, n.e.c.; Gastroenterology; Personalised nutrition therapies; Dietary fibre; Inflammatory bowel disease; Gut microbiome; Food additives |
| Lynn, Francis | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Diabetes; ß-cell development; ß-cell biology; Human pluripotent stem cells; CRISPR/Cas; transcriptional regulation |
| Lyons, Christopher | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Pediatric Ophthalmology; Oculoplastics |
| MacDonald, David | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Systematic review, Diagnostic radiology, particularly of the Hong Kong Chinese |
| MacNeily, Andrew | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Evidence to Innovation; Care of children with urological conditions |
| Masse, Louise | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Health care administration; Health sciences; Public and population health; Childhood obesity with specific interests in prevention and treatment using lifestyle modification; Films, Membranes and Multiphase Polymers; Health Promotion; Nutrition; Obesity; Physical Activity |
| Matsell, Doug | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Childhood kidney disease, Congenital urinary tract obstruction |
| Mawson, John | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Quality improvement/quality assurance issues; Pediatric medical imaging services; Anatomy; Congenital Heart Defects |
| Maxwell, Christopher | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Cancer; Hereditary Cancer; Cell division; Cell migration; Differentiation; Cell polarity |
| Meckler, Garth | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Evidence to Innovation; Pediatric Simulation; Continuing Medical Education; Pediatric Headache |
| Mikami, Amori | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | peer relationships; friendships; peer rejection; bullying; social skills training; social networking; Facebook; attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder; ADHD; children; adolescents, Ways in which a supportive classroom or home environment can help children to make friends, Designing and evaluating interventions that train teachers or parents in strategies to assist children with peer problems |
| Mitra, Souvik | Faculty (non-G+PS member) | |
| Mulpuri, Kishore | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Surgery; bone diseases; Cerebral Palsy; Connective Tissue Diseases; Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip; Joints (Articulations); Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease; Locomotor Activity / Movement Disorders; Methodological Research; Muscle; Muscular Diseases; Musculoskeletal Deformation; Musculoskeletal Lesions and Repair; Neuromuscular Diseases; Orthopaedic Engineering; Patient Quality Improvement and Quality Assurance; Pediatric Hip Conditions; Pediatric Orthopaedic Trauma; Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis; Trauma / Injuries |
| Munro, Sarah | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Human reproduction and development sciences; Participatory research; Health Care Technologies; Community Health / Public Health; Health Promotion; Health Policies; Health Care Organization; social determinants of health; Family planning; Perinatal Period; Birth Control; Breast Feeding and Infant Nutrition; Caesarean section; Implementation Science; Knowledge translation; Reproductive and maternal health; Shared decision making |
| Nethery, Elizabeth | Postdoctoral Fellow | Obstetrics and gynecology; Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); Population health interventions; Women's reproductive health; perinatal epidemiology; Midwifery and obstetrics |
| Norman, Wendy | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Health equity; Health care effectiveness and outcomes; Fertility and maternal health; Knowledge translation and implementation science in health; Population health interventions; Health services and systems, n.e.c.; Family planning; Health services and policy research; Contraception; Abortion; Population health equity research; Applied public health and population health intervention research; Health professional scope of practice research |
| Oberlander, Timothy | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Population epidemiological studies that characterize neurodevelopmental pathways that reflect risk, resiliency and developmental plasticity |
| Ogilvie, Gina | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Sexually transmitted infections, human papillomavirus, HIV in women and care for marginalized populations |
| Panenka, William | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Brain, Behaviour & Development |
| Parker, Seth | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Metabolomics; Cell metabolism; Pediatric cancer; mass spectrometry; Childhood disease; Cancer; Solute carriers; Metabolism; Mitochondria; Stable-isotope tracing; Functional assay development |
| Pike, Ian | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Health promotion and disease prevention; Child and Youth Injury Prevention; Safety-oriented culture; Indigenous child and youth injury prevention; Social Marketing; Child Passenger Safety; Risky play |
| Ranger, Manon | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Neurodevelopment; Clinical nursing, secondary (acute care); neurodevelopment; Early-adversity; Biomarkers of early stress exposure; Brain development; pain; Prematurity |
| Rauscher, Alexander | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Physical sciences; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; magnetic resonance imaging; physics; quantitative susceptibility mapping; myelin water imaging; brain; maschine learning |
| Reid, Gregor | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Basic medicine and life sciences; paediatric cancer; cancer immunology; animal models of cancer |
| Reilly, Christopher | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Paediatric spine, Paediatric sports injuries, Paediatric trauma, Medical education |
| Robillard, Julie | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Medical, health and life sciences; Patient experience/patient engagement; eHealth; Assistive technology; Neuroethics; Brain health technology; Artificial Intelligence; Dementia; mental health; Social robots; pediatrics |
| Robinson, Wendy | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Other basic medicine and life sciences; Medical Genetics; Human Development; Placenta; Epigenetics; DNA methylation; Sex differences; Mosaicism; Fetal Growth |
| Ross, Colin | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Genetic medicine; Genomics; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences (except clinical aspects); Biomedical Technologies; Drug Metabolism; Gene Therapy; Gene-based therapeutics; Pharmacogenomics; Precision Medicine; Transgenic Model |
| Sadarangani, Manish | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Immunology; Microbiology; Bacteria; Bacterial Vaccines; Childhood infections; Epidemiology; Immune System; Vaccine Development; Vaccine immunity; Clinical trials and observational studies |
| Sanatani, Shubhayan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Arrhythmia; Sudden death, ion channelopathies, supraventricular tachycardia, autonomic nervous system |
| Schultz, Kirk | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Pediatric Cancer Blood and Marrow Transplantation Transplantation immunology Graft-versus-Host Disease Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Aplastic Anemia Myelodysplastic Syndrome, Oncology, immune system, childhood leukemia, blood and marrow transplatation, tumour immunology |
| Schummers, Laura | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Pediatrics and reproductive medicine; Health Services; Health Policy; women’s reproductive and perinatal health |
| Simpson, Elizabeth | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Bioinformatics; Genetic medicine; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Aniridia; CRISPR; Congenital Anomalies; Congenital blindness; Eye and Visual System Diseases; Gene therapy for brain and eye diseases; In vivo gene augmentation and genome editing (CRISPR/CAS9); MiniPromoters for restricted expression; Rare diseases |
| Skarsgard, Erik | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Fetal surgery, Chest wall disorders in children, birth defects, neonatal surgical outcomes, perinatal networks, prenatal diagnosis and intrauerine surgery |
| Sly, Laura | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Innate immunity; Inflammatory bowel disease; Inflammation; macrophages; Cell signalling |
| Soma, Kiran | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Psychology and cognitive sciences; Zoology; Behavior; Biological Behavior; Endocrinology; Neuroendocrine Diseases; Neuronal Communication and Neurotransmission; Neuronal Systems; neuroscience; stress |
| Sorensen, Poul | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Childhood cancer cells, genomic science |
| Spittal, Patricia | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Indigenous/Aboriginal Health, HIV work in Uganda, |