The Centre for Blood Research (CBR) is a multidisciplinary biomedical research institute, situated primarily at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and affiliated teaching hospitals, with nodes at the University of Northern British Columbia and at the University of Victoria. Over 40 research groups at the CBR are working together, using a broad range of leading edge basic science, biotechnological, engineering and clinical investigative approaches on blood and blood-related processes to improve health.
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Affiliated UBC Faculty & Postdocs
| Name | Role | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Bromme, Dieter | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Lysosomal proteases, centre for blood research |
| Brown, Kelly | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Medical, health and life sciences; childhood rheumatic diseases; Inflammation; phagocytes |
| Cheung, Karen | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Electrical engineering, computer engineering, and information engineering; Medical and biomedical engineering; additive manufacturing; BioMEMS; Biomedical Technologies; biosensors; microfluidics; neural interfaces; organ-on-chip; Tissue Engineering |
| Conway, Edward | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Basic medicine and life sciences; coagulation; Innate immunity; Inflammation; vascular biologh |
| Cote, Helene | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | HIV Infection, blood research, infectious diseases |
| Foster, Leonard | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Biochemistry; Genomics; Agriculture; antigen presentation; Bioinformatics; Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms; Biotechnology; Cell Signaling and Infectious and Immune Diseases; Honey bees; host-pathogen interactions; Immune System; Microbiology; Proteomics; Systems Biology |
| Hancock, Robert E | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides, Host Defence Peptides and Innate Immunity, Functional Genomics of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Regulation of Antibiotic Resistance, Array Data, Self-promoted uptake hypothesis |
| Haynes, Charles | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Protein purification, recombinant proteins, molecular thermodynamics, biocompatible polymers |
| Jefferies, Wilfred Arthur | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Iron transport molecules |
| Karsan, Aly | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Hematological tumours; Cancer molecular targets; Leukemia; Hematopoiesis; Genomics and epigenomics; Noncoding RNAs; Aging |
| Kim, Hugh | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | platelet biochemistry |
| Kizhakkedathu, Jayachandran | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | 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 |
| Lee, Agnes Yuet Ying | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Cancer associated thrombosis, epidemiology, prevention, diagnosis, management |
| Ma, Hongshen | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Microfluidics; Instrumentation; Cell Sorting; Cell Biomechanics; Circulating Tumor Cells; Malaria and Red Blood Cell Deformability; Single Cell Technologies; Cell Migration and Chemotaxis |
| McMaster, W Robert | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Molecular Immunology |
| McNagny, Kelly Marshall | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Cellular immunology; Regenerative medicine (including stem cells and tissue engineering); Stem Cells; Immunology; Inflammation; Mouse models of human disease; Tissue degeneration/regeneration; Cancer; innate immune response; kidney function; Biologics and therapeutics |
| Overall, Christopher Mark | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Blood research, antiviral immunity |
| Rana, MD Mohosin | Postdoctoral Fellow | Regenerative medicine (including stem cells and tissue engineering); Material Sciences; Polymer chemistry; Tissue Engineering; Organ Engineering; Nanotechnology; Regenerative medicine; microfluidics; Bioengineering |
| Rossi, Fabio | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Stem Cell Regenerative Medicine blood, Stem cells, regeneration, gene therapy, control of cell fate |
| Strynadka, Natalie | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Blood Research, structure-based design of inhibitors, antibiotic-resistance mechanisms, macromolecular assemblies, bacterial viability pathogenesis |