UBC MD/PhD Program

Official account of the @UBCmedicine combined MD/PhD program.

[UBC MD/PhD Program @UBC_MDPHD]

Small curiosities lead to life-changing discoveries in the UBC MD/PhD Program.

[UBC MD/PhD Program @UBC_MDPHD]

Learn more about the program: https://t.co/y4N9oBCKSA

[UBC MD/PhD Program @UBC_MDPHD]

Small curiosities lead to life-changing discoveries in the UBC MD/PhD Program.

[UBC MD/PhD Program @UBC_MDPHD]

Through authentic stories from current students, the video captures the curiosity and passion that drive world-changing discoveries. EdTech was proud to support this project through creative development, production, and distribution.

[Students of U of T's MD–PhD Program @uoftmdphd]

MD-PhD student and former CITAC President Robert Lao joined current CITAC President Catie Futhey and Past-President Salonee Patel this weekend at ICAM 2026 to represent clinician-scientist trainee voices in national conversations with leaders in medicine and research!

[Saif Dababneh @saif_dababneh]

One of my major PhD projects is now out in JACC Journals Clinical Electrophysiology.

https://t.co/kX7tMqHQjT

[Journal of Experimental Medicine @JExpMed]

A multimorphic variant in ThPOK causes #InbornErrorsOfImmunity with T cell defects and #fibrosis, say Maryam Vaseghi-Shanjani (@vaseghi_maryam), Mehul Sharma, Catherine M. Biggs, Stuart E. Turvey et al. @TurveyLab
https://t.co/j1VyNurVyZ

[UBC Department of Psychiatry @UBC_Psychiatry]

Many thanks to our Lightning Talk Speakers in the AM Session! Pictured here are our first three speakers Abhijit Chinchani @chinchani_a_m, Catie Futhey @CatieFuthey, and Tara Gaertner @TaraMedBrain 🙌

[UBC MD/PhD Program @UBC_MDPHD]

The UBC MD/PhD program had a fantastic time at the CSCI-CITAC Annual Joint Meeting in Toronto the past month🤩 Huge congratulations to @saif_dababneh on his 1st place oral presentation award and Erica Qureshi on her poster presentation award. Thank you @uoftmdphd @CITAC_ACCFC

[NINET Lab @NinetLab]

Great interview to Elizabeth Gregory, MD/PhD candidate in the lab leading the charge on investigating personalized neuroimaging and neuromodulation in the lab. https://t.co/fTN3mrT5M9

[Catie Futhey @CatieFuthey]

Presented my research using machine learning to identify cognitive subtypes in chronic schizophrenia and link them to postmortem brain pathology at #SIRS2025. Such a great hub for interdisciplinary and international discussion!

[Saif Dababneh @saif_dababneh]

Happy to share our @stemcellreports review on examining 🫀noncoding variants in hiPSCs is now online. Importantly, we provide a resource summarizing epigenomic datasets (see thread for GSE
IDs) in hiPSC-based cardiac models for the scientific community

https://t.co/wIOe96aAN5

[McGill MD-PhD Program @McGill_MDPhD]

McGill MD-PhD Student Society is planning a day-long event filled with talks, poster presentations and networking opportunities. Our goal: bring together students, academics, and professionals with different perspectives to promote collaboration and advance research. (1/3)

[Curtis Leclerc @CurtisLeclerc39]

Very excited to be involved in such important work in Canadian Cancer Clinical Trials!

⚠️ Our latest paper shows that tumor location matters in lung metastases treated with SABR.
✅ SABR remains safe and effective for tumor control.

Read more: https://t.co/ftohK6wiNa

#SABR

[UBC MD/PhD Program @UBC_MDPHD]

Huge congratulations to our student @AmarSekhon_ on winning an @ASSFNeurosurg AMPLify award to work at @ucdavis with Dr. Stephano Chang🥳

[UBC MD/PhD Program @UBC_MDPHD]

Our Winter 2025 newsletter is out now!
https://t.co/h3m6y9jr1x

[UTP Journals @utpjournals]

The new issue of Clinical and Investigative Medicine announces the recipient of the CIM-CITAC Publication Award. Explore the selected article “Training Outcomes and Satisfaction in Canadian MD/PhD and MD/MSc Programs”: https://t.co/fKdQA4VKsF @CSCI_SCRC @mcgillu @UofTNews

[UBC MD/PhD Program @UBC_MDPHD]

Huge congratulations to our program director 🥳🥳 Very well deserved

[UBC MD/PhD Program @UBC_MDPHD]

Huge congratulations to @newton_cho and UBC MD/PhD alumni @j_squair 🤩🤩

[UBC MD/PhD Program @UBC_MDPHD]

Huge congratulations @CurtisLeclerc39 👏👏

[NorthernMedicalProg @UBCNMP_unbc]

Congratulations to NMP MD/PhD student Curtis Leclerc who has been named a 2024 CANTRAIN award recipient!
Co-funded by @HlthResearchBC, @wecantrain and @CIHR_IRSC, the award provides support for clinical trials training.