VPC News

Congratulations to Kerim Yavuz from Dr. Nathan Lack's laboratory in VPC on receiving the 2025 Rising Star Award. This award celebrates the exceptional achievements of VCHRI trainees who demonstrate outstanding research excellence, leadership, and a meaningful impact on the Vancouver Coastal Health...

Congratulations to Victor Barrios from Dr. Xuesen Dong’s lab received the CHRI Doctoral Research Award: Canada Graduate Scholarships for their project titled "Developing novel Lin28 inhibitors for computer-aided drug design." Victor’s award-winning research focuses on a promising new approach to...

National news agencies have sought the opinion of Dr. Peter Black, Director of the Vancouver Prostate Centre, regarding U.S. President Joe Biden’s recent prostate cancer diagnosis. The President’s condition brings attention to several important aspects of prostate cancer, including the value of...

Dr. Sofie Tolmeijer, PhD, a researcher in the Wyatt Lab, has been awarded the 2024 CCPC – Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) Young Investigator Award. The award recognizes their work on: "Serial Blood-Based Epigenotyping of Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer (mCRPC) to Understand Response...

Explore the shared vision and impact of VCHRI, MIUS, and UBC as they work together to drive transformative health care innovation. In the first video of the VCHRI Impact Video Series, MIUS’ Dr. Martin Gleave shares how groundbreaking research helps shape the future of patient care. This series...

We are proud to announce that Dr. Nada Lallous has been awarded an Idea Development Award – Established Investigator from the U.S. Department of Defense Prostate Cancer Research Program (DoD PCRP). This $1.48 million USD grant will support her collaborative project with Drs. Gsponer, Foster, and...

We are thrilled to celebrate the outstanding achievement of Unnati Yagnik and (Ziwei) Mia Cai, students from Dr. Syam Somasekharan's laboratory, who have been awarded the prestigious 2025 CIHR Travel Award through the Institute Community Support (ICS) Program. This highly competitive and limited...

Drs. Martin Gleave and Peter Black recently attended the 112th annual meeting of the Japanese Urological Association (JUA), held from April 17 to 19, 2025 in Fukuoka, Japan. During the meeting they had the opportunity to reconnect with numerous past fellows from Vancouver Prostate Centre. Photos...

Dr. Artem Cherkasov, a leading world expert in AI-driven health research at Vancouver Prostate Centre, recently won two international CACHE Challenges. Using advanced computational methods and artificial intelligence, his work identified potential new treatments for Parkinson’s disease and COVID-19...

Congratulations to Dr. Govind Kaigala, Director of Partnerships and Community Engagement at the School of Biomedical Engineering, and Senior Scientist at the Vancouver Prostate Centre for being awarded UBC Killam Accelerator Research Fellowship through UBC’s 2024 Faculty Research Awards. The award...