Dr. Richard Harrigan, Director of the Laboratory Program at BC-CfE, is awarded the Innovation and Achievement Award by LifeSciences BC for his industry-leading work in HIV clinical research.
BC-CfE UHRI publishes a study with the Thai AIDS Treatment Action Group (TTAG) and Thailand’s Mitsampan Community Research Project. The study found the Thai government’s longstanding war-on-drugs, involving the mass incarceration of people who use drugs, has failed to suppress the availability and use of illegal drugs in the country.
BC-CfE Research Laboratory is awarded a $5-million grant over four years by Genome Canada to develop new methods using DNA sequencing technologies. The research will address drug resistance and subsequent HIV treatment failure. The project goals are to introduce an improved HIV drug resistance test, implement real-time HIV drug resistance surveillance, and develop individualized treatment of HIV based on each patient’s unique DNA.
B.C. Health Minister Margaret MacDiarmid announces $1.5-million in funding to develop a strategy to address the Hepatitis B & C epidemic in BC. The strategy will be based on BC-CfE’s successful HIV Treatment as Prevention model.
Dr. Robert Hogg, Director of the Epidemiology and Population Health Program at BC-CfE, is named incoming president of the Canadian Association for HIV Research (CAHR).
During the Canada Post strike announced September 25, 2025, the following measures will be undertaken to minimize service disruption to BC-CfE clients and providers.
The BC-CfE Laboratory has transitioned to private courier for delivery of outgoing reports and documents. Results required urgently can be faxed upon request. (Lab Contact Information: Phone 604-806-8775; FAX 604-806-9463)
The BC-CfE Drug Treatment Program (DTP) will fax outgoing forms and documents to the provider’s office. (DTP Contact Information: Phone 604-806-8515; FAX 604-806-9044)
St. Paul’s Hospital Ambulatory Pharmacy has transitioned to private courier for delivery of medications. We recommend requesting medication at least 2 weeks in advance in case of delivery delays, particularly to rural/remote parts of BC. (Contact Information: Phone 1-800-547-3622; FAX 604-806-8675)
During the Canada Post strike, we recommend that documents be faxed or couriered to our sites, versus utilization of regular mail service
CLICK FOR NEW HIV-1 RESISTANCE GENOTYPE REPORT NOTICE
The BC-CfE Laboratory is streamlining reporting processes for certain tests in order to simplify distribution and record-keeping, and to ensure completeness of results. Beginning September 2, 2025, results for the ‘Resistance Analysis of HIV-1 Protease and Reverse Transcriptase’ (Protease-RT) and ‘HIV-1 Integrase Resistance Genotype’ tests will be combined into a single ‘HIV-1 Resistance Genotype Report’. For more details and example reports, please click on the button below
