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BC-CfE studies immune response to COVID-19 vaccines among the elderly

21 September 2021

A new research report by the BC-CfE adds to the growing body of evidence that elderly individuals don’t mount as strong, or durable, immune responses to the COVID-19 vaccines as compared to younger individuals. This COVID-19 Immunity Task Force (CITF)-funded study was done in collaboration with Providence Health Care and Simon Fraser University. The study is currently in pre-print and has not yet been peer-reviewed.

Hope to Health brings comprehensive care to the Downtown Eastside

17 September 2021

The BC-CfE is bringing comprehensive, wrap-around, health care to residents of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES) through the services it offers at its Hope to Health Research and Innovation Complex (H2H). Opened in late 2019 and located in the heart of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES), H2H is a multi-building complex that provides integrated harm reduction, safer supply, and primary care services to its clients with on-site laboratory services.

BC-CfE Researchers help fight drug resistance to Hepatitis C treatments

16 September 2021

A new research paper published by the BC-CfE laboratory’s scientists will help healthcare providers improve treatments for people living with the hepatitis C virus (HCV). The study, led by Dr. Hope Lapointe, describes a new test that physicians can use to help “personalize” their patients’ HCV treatment.

BC-CfE’s Dr. Robert Hogg elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

13 September 2021

Senior Research Fellow at the BC-CfE and Distinguished Professor and Associate Dean of Research in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University, Dr. Robert Hogg was recently elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) for 2021. This recognition by the RSC for career achievement ranks among the highest academic honours for a Canadian.

BC-CfE Commemorates International Overdose Awareness Day

30 August 2021

Today, August 31st, is International Overdose Awareness Day. The annual campaign, started in 2001, is part of a global movement to end overdoses, end stigma surrounding drug use, and to acknowledge the grief of the families and friends who’ve lost loved ones to drug overdoses.

BC-CfE joins REACH Collaboratory in HIV cure research

26 August 2021

The BC-CfE’s Laboratory and its Director, Dr. Zabrina Brumme, are celebrating another recent success in being awarded grant funding for research. The BC-CfE, along with frequent collaborating partner Simon Fraser University, are now a part of the U.S.-based Research Enterprise to Advance a Cure for HIV (REACH) Collaboratory.

BC-CfE researchers examine mood and anxiety disorders and their links to HIV risk among sexual minorities

20 August 2021

New research led by the BC-CfE’s Dr. Viviane Dias Lima examines how sexually risky behavior is linked to mood or anxiety disorders among lesbian, gay, and bisexual people in BC.

BC-CfE Poster Presentations from IAS 2021

12 August 2021

The 11th International AIDS Society (IAS) Conference on HIV Science took place from July 18th to the 21st and BC-CfE researchers attending the virtual conference used the opportunity to present their latest findings.

BC-CfE commends expanded access to prescribed safer supply

3 August 2021

The BC-CfE supports the recent decision by the Government of BC to phase in a new policy expanding access to prescribed safer drug supply.

BC-CfE’s Rachel Miller wins prestigious IAS award

21 July 2021

It’s been a busy summer for Rachel Miller, a graduate student in the BC-CfE’s Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics Group. Miller won a scholarship to attend the 23rd annual International AIDS Conference and she also won a prestigious award for the abstract she’ll be presenting at the conference.

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