Drs. Cheryl Wellington and Michael Hayden from the @UBC Faculty of Medicine have been awarded @BrainCanada 2025 Platform Support Grants to support powerful new brain research platforms!
🧠 Congratulations to both researchers. Learn more about their projects: https://t.co/BcfzDQF8pB
AI dangers: Epic used #AI in computerized medical record to predict #sepsis, touted it highly, widely used. First investigation, sensitivity 33% (missed 2/3 of cases, specificity 83%, 88% alerts false positives, alert burden: 6,971 of 38,455 hospitalizations (18%). Withdrawn after 4 years of damage.
https://t.co/3QYM1XreEW
The @adMare_Bio M4 Innovation Centre is officially open!
New laboratory facilities opened to support BC’s life sciences sector, offering move-in-ready spaces for early-stage companies that are tackling challenges in medicine and more: https://t.co/lKAFJs0gzY
#VancouverBiotech
Colonialism, systemic discrimination, and racism have introduced barriers for #Indigenous families in healthcare. These challenges require resilience, often hindering access to #genomic#sequencing and extending journey toward a diagnosis. https://t.co/OogE1T2o6X #HealthEquity
Achieving the vision of genomics to improve health for all requires a focus on diversity, equity and inclusion. 2025 editorial in the Journal of Community Genetics and the Public Health Genomics Journal. https://t.co/mKbSWRLnqC
Drs. Sabrina Leslie & Xin Tang have been awarded funding through the @UBC 2026/27 Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters competition to launch a new research cluster that brings together advanced imaging and AI technologies.
Congratulations! https://t.co/QSwqv0Zplw
I was so pleased to be part of a great team writing a commentary on the draft FDA guidelines on Bayesian clinical trial designs. Should have been done 30 years ago, but better late than never
NEW PUBLICATIONS IN HEALTH ECONOMICS AND GENOMICS 25/02/26
Four publications since the last update.
Link to blog: https://t.co/zxOUkzjiqr
#healtheconomics [1/5]
🚨 Funding alert! 🚨
The Wall Fellowships & Research Awards are open to faculty members and graduate students at @UBC.
Deadline info and details at the link below 👇
https://t.co/liiol4VHtE
A team led by @BCCHresearch's Dr. @Matthew_Wiens has been awarded €5 million in Horizon Europe funding to improve care for children after hospital discharge in Uganda & Kenya.
The goal of reducing deaths from severe infections like #sepsis: https://t.co/pp8bDQ0CIB
Congratulations to all Vancouver researchers who received funding through the Fall 2025 CIHR Project Grant competition!
🎉 Check out the @ubclifesciences awardees: https://t.co/9NFaPNneaz
🎊 See which @VCHResearch researchers won grants: https://t.co/KHGvMInF8Z
The time of day for cancer immunotherapy is associated with major outcomes. Early is better. Results from a randomized trial of lung cancer, backs up the importance of our circadian rhythm and immune system
https://t.co/bHqUZ3U83O
NEW PUBLICATIONS IN HEALTH ECONOMICS AND GENOMICS 07/01/26
Happy new year! Five publications since the last update.
Link to blog: https://t.co/EW3TnZH38R
#healtheconomics [1/6]
NEW PUBLICATIONS IN HEALTH ECONOMICS AND GENOMICS 16/12/25
Two publications since the last update.
Link to blog: https://t.co/25uJ50Ed6M
#healtheconomics [1/3]
Confirmed:
* NICE will apply new thresholds of £25k-£35k/QALY asap
* NICE will introduce the new value set for use alongside EQ-5D-5L following peer review and publication
* NICE-hosted webinar on 3 Dec with more details
https://t.co/FNV21A2rGG
#healtheconomics
Multiple large natural experiments have documented Shingles vaccine is linked with ~20-25% reduced risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease. A new report today adds to that and extends the to slowing the progression of dementia @CellCellPress
https://t.co/HPJPKzuyan