Enav Zusman
Doctor of Philosophy in Reproductive and Developmental Sciences (PhD)
Associations between prenatal serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressant exposure-related longitudinal changes in stress regulation and mood across childhood
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Ranked among the world’s top medical schools with the fifth-largest MD enrollment in North America, the UBC Faculty of Medicine is a leader in both the science and the practice of medicine. Across British Columbia, more than 12,000 faculty and staff are training the next generation of doctors, health care professionals, and medical researchers, making remarkable discoveries to help create the pathways to better health for our communities at home and around the world.
The UBC Faculty of Medicine offers a diverse array of training opportunities including cutting-edge research experiences in the biosciences, globally recognized population health education, quality health professional training, as well as several certificate and online training options. The Faculty of Medicine is home to more than 1,700 graduate students housed in 20 graduate programs (14 of which offer doctoral research options). Year after year, research excellence in the Faculty of Medicine is supported by investment from funding sources here at home and around the globe, receiving approximately more than $1.8B in total research funding since 2016.
We value our trainees and the creative input they have to scholarly activities at UBC. Our priority is to enable their maximum potential through flexible opportunities that provide a breadth of experiences tailored to their own individual career objectives. We maintain high standards of excellence, and work to create a community of intellectually and socially engaged scholars that work collaboratively with each other, the university, and the world, with the overarching goal of promoting the health of individuals and communities.
Most Faculty research is conducted under the auspices of 23 centres and institutes that are part of UBC or affiliated with it, in collaboration with our health partners.
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The Life Sciences Centre is the largest building on the UBC Vancouver campus. Completed in 2004, the $125 million, 52,165 sq metres building was built to accommodate the distributed medical educational program and the Life Sciences Institute.
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The BC Children's Hospital Research Institute is it the largest research institute of its kind in Western Canada in terms of people, productivity, funding and size. With more than 350,000 square feet of space, the Institute has both 'wet bench' laboratory and 'dry lab' clinical research areas, and other areas to facilitate particular areas of research and training.
New knowledge and innovation are crucial to successfully identifying, addressing and overcoming the increasingly complex health-related challenges that influence the lives of all of us – in British Columbia, in Canada, and in countries and communities around the globe.
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The Faculty provides and fosters research excellence across the full continuum, from basic science to applied science and then to knowledge implementation, with a focus on precision health; cancer; brain and mental health; heart and lung health; population health; and chronic diseases.
Name | Academic Unit(s) | Research Interests |
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Kalia, Sunil | Department of Dermatology & Skin Science | Skin Cancer; Optics and Photonics; Skin Disorders; Epidemiology; optics; photobiology; dermatoepidemiology; Cancer |
Kalua, Khumbo | School of Population and Public Health | Population health interventions; Infectious diseases; Global health; Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); Neglected Tropical Eye Diseases; Global Eye Health; Cluster Randomized Trials; Implementation Science; International Global Health; Community Based Research; Clinical trials |
Karim, Ehsan | School of Population and Public Health | Biostatistical methods; Survey methodology and analysis; Statistical learning; Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); Public and population health, n.e.c.; Causal inference; Biostatistics; Statistics; Machine Learning; data science; Survey data analysis; multiple sclerosis |
Karsan, Aly | Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine | Hematological tumours; Cancer molecular targets; Leukemia; Hematopoiesis; Genomics and epigenomics; Noncoding RNAs; Aging |
Kassam, Rosemin | School of Population and Public Health | Medical, health and life sciences; Child Health, Malnutrition, Adult Chronic Disease, Geriatrics |
Kastrukoff, Lorne | Division of Neurology | MS; human immunology and multiple sclerosis particularly T-cell responses and most recently NK or natural killer cell responses |
Kazanjian, Arminee | School of Population and Public Health | Medical biotechnology; Health systems and policy, equitable access to healthcare; cancer survivorship, psychosocial care |
Kealy, David | Department of Psychiatry | Consciousness, Subjectivity and Personal Identity; Mental Health and Society; Affective and Emotional Development; Psychotherapy; mental health; Personality; Emotional functioning |
Kelleher, Dermot | Division of Gastroenterology | immune response to many of the leading causes of gastrointestinal infectious disease worldwide |
Keown, Paul Anthony | Division of Nephrology | immune response in transplantation and autoimmune disease, and ranges from molecular genetics to healthcare economics |
Keramatian, Kamyar | Department of Psychiatry | early intervention in bipolar disorder, Mental Health & Addictions |
Kerr, Thomas | Division of Social Medicine | harm reduction, injection drug users, HIV / AIDS, safe injection site, addiction, HIV/AIDS, injection drug use, health policy and service evaluation, and community-based research methods |
Kershaw, Paul | child care, parental leave, work-life balance, social policy, social citizenship, responsibilities and rights, gender and politics, income assistance, child benefit package, social inclusion, neighbourhood effects on child development, Canadian federalism, Citizenship, detrimants of Health, social care | |
Khan, Nadia Ahmed | Division of General Internal Medicine | Ethnic and gender differences in chronic disease incidence and outcomes; Chronic disease prevention and management of Type 2 diabetes, hypertension, stroke, and cardiovascular disease; Hypertension outcomes research |
Khan, Rabia | Department of Pediatrics | |
Kieffer, Tim | Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences, School of Biomedical Engineering | Diabetes |
Kissoon, Niranjan | Department of Pediatrics | Sepsis and critical care |
Kitson, Clifford Neil | Department of Dermatology & Skin Science | biological membranes that form the permeability barrier of the skin, and in how these properties may be altered in common and uncommon disorders of the skin |
Kizhakkedathu, Jayachandran | Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine | Medical and biomedical engineering; Pathology (except oral pathology); Biomaterials; Blood Coagulation; Cell-surface Engineering; Implants and Medical Devices; Iron Chelators; Macromolecular Therapeutics; Polymers; Proteomics Tools; Thrombosis |
Klein Geltink, Ramon | Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine | Pathology (except oral pathology); Metabolism; Immunotherapy; Cell Signaling and Infectious and Immune Diseases; Auto-Immune Diseases; Cell Therapy of Cancer; Adoptive cellular therapy; Immunometabolism; T cell function |
Knight, Darryl | Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics | Airway Disease; Lung and airway remodelling; Respiratory diseases |
Kobor, Michael | Department of Medical Genetics | Biochemistry; Bioinformatics; Genetic medicine; Genomics; Chromatin Biology; Epigenetics; molecular biology; Social Epigenetics |
Koehoorn, Mieke | School of Population and Public Health | Occupational health, injury, compensation policies, Worksafe BC, Gender Work and Health |
Kolind, Shannon | Division of Neurology | Medical physics; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; brain; Imaging; MRI; medical physics; multiple sclerosis; myelin; Neurological Disease; spinal cord |
Kopp, Janel | Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences | Genomics; Modeling cancer; Pancreas; Pancreatic cancer; Pancreatic development |
This is an incomplete sample of recent publications in chronological order by UBC faculty members with a primary appointment in the Faculty of Medicine.
Year | Citation | Program |
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2023 | Dr. Cui delved into the escalating drug overdose epidemic involving opioid and methamphetamine use. Her research emphasizes the crucial need for comprehensive and integrated treatment and harm reduction strategies to address both opioid and methamphetamine use. | Doctor of Philosophy in Population and Public Health (PhD) |
2023 | Dr. Shortill explored mechanisms of intracellular protein sorting using a budding yeast model. His work led to the identification of the VINE complex, a previously unknown endosomal assembly with similarity to the neurodegeneration-linked retromer complex. These results pave the way for a more complete understanding of endosomal function. | Doctor of Philosophy in Medical Genetics (PhD) |
2023 | Dr. Mohanna worked towards developing a CRISPR gene therapy for the childhood blindness aniridia. She created a mouse model for this disease and subsequently tested two delivery systems. She showed that a non-pathogenic virus successfully targets the affected cells in the eye and can be used for developing a gene therapy for aniridia in the future. | Doctor of Philosophy in Medical Genetics (PhD) |
2023 | Dr. Farivar has designed a laser device that can deploy the heat to the tumor precisely, kill cancer cells and activate immune system minimizing damage to the surrounding tissue.She tested the device in a bladder cancer model in mouse and showed that the heat combined with immune stimulating drugs can decrease tumor growth and increase survival. | Doctor of Philosophy in Experimental Medicine (PhD) |
2023 | Dr. Akinlaja adapted proteomics methods towards understanding the infectious processes of a pathogen of the honey bee midgut. Her work provides new insight into how host protein expression and interactions are altered by pathogen infection, and identifies candidate proteins that could be potential therapeutic targets in the resulting disease. | Doctor of Philosophy in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (PhD) |
2023 | Using lipid nanoparticle technology, Dr. Leung uncovered novel methods to genetically modify platelets and discovered strategies to improve the efficacy of nanoparticles. His research brings us one step closer to better transfusion products while advancing our understanding of lipid nanoparticles. | Doctor of Philosophy in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (PhD) |
2023 | Dr. Liang studied how harmful bacteria in the gut exploit our body's natural defenses to reproduce and cause infections. Her work informs future therapeutics beyond antibiotics to treat bacterial infections by targeting pathogen metabolism. | Doctor of Philosophy in Experimental Medicine (PhD) |
2023 | Dr. Caballero Silva studied and characterized the molecular structures of bacterial nano-machineries involved in the life cycle of the bacterium responsible for Tuberculosis. This research provides the groundwork into the development of novel therapeutics which can target key steps stopping bacterial infection. | Doctor of Philosophy in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (PhD) |
2023 | Dr. Truong's research demonstrated the important role of social support on exercise adherence after traumatic sport-related knee injuries. These studies assist us in understanding the best ways to facilitate exercise behaviours to prevent inactivity, weight gain and early-onset osteoarthritis in this at-risk group. | Doctor of Philosophy in Rehabilitation Sciences (PhD) |
2023 | Dr. Ash studied adult neurogenesis, the birth of new brain cells in adulthood, in rodent models to examine how new brain cells integrate into neural circuitry. She also studied neurogenesis and memory in a rodent model of Alzheimer's Disease, characterizing structural changes and plasticity of brain cells during early stages of disease pathology. | Doctor of Philosophy in Neuroscience (PhD) |