Airway Centre
There are currently no disease-modifying therapies for 2.5 million Canadians suffering from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). The aim of The UBC Airway Centre is to address the growing burden of COPD and other airway conditions in BC and elsewhere by finding better diagnostics and therapies for patients.
Campus
Vancouver
Affiliated UBC Faculty & Postdocs
| Name | Role | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Cheung, Karen | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Biomedical Technologies; microfluidics; Tissue Engineering; biosensors; additive manufacturing; organ-on-chip; BioMEMS; neural interfaces |
| Dorscheid, Delbert Richard | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Asthma, Inflammatory Respiratory Diseases, Respiratory System |
| Feng, James Jingtao | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Fluid Mechanics; Complex fluids; Biophysics; Mathematical biology |
| Fitzgerald, Mark | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | asthma; tuberculosis:outcomes evaluation;clinical trials, Epidemiology |
| Hackett, Tillie-Louise | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Molecular determinants of COPD, small airway obstruction, angiotensin signalling, defective airway epithelial differentiation in asthma, human lung cell repository |
| Leipsic, Jonathon | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Diagnostic performance and radiation reduction as well as CT to guide minimally invasive valve intervention |
| Li, Shyh-dar | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | drug delivery; pharmaceutics; nanomedicine; biopharmaceutics |
| Lim, Chinten James | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Cell Signaling and Cancer; Leukemia; Immunotherapy; Chemotherapy; tumour cell biology; mechanisms of drug resistance; integrin cell adhesion and migration; tumour microenvironment; pediatric oncology |
| Lu, Xiaonan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | |
| 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 |
| McNagny, Kelly Marshall | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Cancer of the Reproductive System; Cell Therapy of Cancer; Breast Cancer; Crohn's Disease; Allergies; Inflammatory Respiratory Diseases; Immune System; Immunotherapy; Immune Mediators: Cytokines and Chemokines; Embryonic Development; Stem Cells; Immunology; Inflammation; Mouse models of human disease; Tissue degeneration/regeneration; Cancer; innate immune response; kidney function |
| Ng, Raymond Tak-yan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Data mining and analysis, health informatics, text summarization, text mining |
| Sadatsafavi, Mohsen | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Respiratory diseases; Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); Epidemiology; Biostatistics; Respiratory Research |
| Sin, Donald | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | CODP (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) |
| Tam, Roger | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Imaging; Expert Systems; Neurodegenerative Diseases; Shape Recognition and Computer Graphics; Computer Science and Statistics; Biomedical Technologies; Machine Learning; Precision Medicine; Radiology; Biomedical Informatics; Data Analytics |
| Tebbutt, Scott | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Genomics and Proteomics; Asthma; Heart Transplantation; Complex Trait Genetics; Fungal Infections; Occupational Lung Diseases; Dual organism molecular interaction (fungal spores & human airway epithelium); Early and late reactions in allergic asthma and rhinitis; Diagnostics of acute heart rejection; Neonatal vaccine immunogenicity; Systems biology, biomarkers & bioinformatics |