2017 has been a year of widespread global attention to blockchain possibilities beyond mere finance, and the PROOF Centre, together with Blockchain@UBC (http://www.blockchainubc.ca/) and other partners, is exploring these applications within the contexts of health research, ethics, …
Congratulations to Dr. Scott Tebbutt for being one of the recipients of a 2017 NIH Human Immunology Project Consortium grant (U19), led by Dr. Ofer Levy at Children’s Hospital in Boston. Dr. Tebbutt’s project aims to investigate immune response to …
PROOF’s Biomarkers in Transplantation (BiT) program focuses on applying a novel multi-gene blood test to the management of acute cardiac allograft rejection, with the end goal of improving patient management while reducing the need for biopsies. Congratulations to Dr. McManus …
NSERC Tier 1 awards are given to outstanding researchers acknowledged by their peers as world leaders in their fields. We at PROOF celebrate this well-deserved appointment, and look forward to the continued excellence and insights Dr. Raymond Ng will bring …
Molecular profiling data has seen an explosion in recent years, but storage and management of this data has not kept up. One of the main barriers in healthcare and health research is that data reside in silos that do not …