Headlines 2024

  • Facilitating rural and northern youth to engage in regular physical activity

    Dr. Taru Manyanga with the UBC Master of Physical Therapy – North program at UNBC is bringing together youth and other key partners to develop interventions for youth physical activity engagement across northern B.C.

  • National Physiotherapy Month – 2024

    In honour of National Physiotherapy Month, meet some of the outstanding physical therapists throughout British Columbia.

  • MPT Student Lynda Li Received UBC StEAR Funding

    Name and Title(s):   Lynda Li – MPT Student Congratulations to MPT Student Lynda Li for receiving a UBC Strategic Equity & Anti-Racism (StEAR) Enhancement Fund for their organization Volentia Research Translation. Volentia equips UBC-affiliated research investigators and graduate students with free language translation services to enhance the diversity of research populations. What inspired you to…

  • Dr Janice Eng was awarded 2024 BCKDF funding for health research

    Faculty of Medicine researchers are among the UBC recipients of funding through the B.C. Knowledge Development Fund (BCKDF) for their work on topics including rare cancers, obesity and diabetes therapeutics and genome sequencing and analysis.

  • Dr Teresa Liu-Ambrose was Awarded a Killam Faculty Research Prize

    Dr Teresa Liu-Ambrose is a recipient of the 2023 UBC Killam Research Prize in the Medicine Established Category. The UBC Killam Research Prize recognizes the research excellence and scholarly achievements of faculty from across all disciplines, ranging from the applied sciences and medicine to the social sciences and humanities.