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Mini Med School

Mini Med School is a science outreach and public education program. Each course curriculum is designed to give a basic understanding of the field while exploring basic science research, clinical applications, and social and ethical implications related to that field.

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Discovery Days in Health Sciences

Discovery Days in Health Sciences is a one-day event that gives secondary school students and teachers the opportunity to explore a variety of career options in medicine and the health sciences. The day includes a dynamic keynote lecture to give students a clear picture of what it would be like to be a health professional.

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Public Lectures

The BC Children's Hospital, together with Providence Health Care Research Institute and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, organizes a public lecture each March. These lectures include several talks by clinicians and scientists on the latest leading-edge health research.

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Discovery Talks

Discovery Talks is an international seminar series featuring influential research leaders from around the globe. The series promotes knowledge exchange, fosters international collaborations and showcases the brightest minds in research.

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Gairdner Symposium

The Gairdner High School Symposium is a half-day event held each fall that gives secondary students and teachers the opportunity to hear from Gairdner award-winning scientists and attend a behind-the-scenes tour of BC Children's Hospital's research facilities.

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Crafting beating heart cells to deliver personalized treatments for kids with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Researchers at BC Children's Hospital Research Institute are working with human-induced pluripotent stem cells to develop safer and more effective treatments for kids with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

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Congratulations CIHR Spring 2024 Project Grant recipients

Congratulations to the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute (BCCHR) and Women’s Health Research Institute (WHRI) investigators and their teams who were awarded $5 million in funding through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Spring 2024 Project Grant competition.

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Torin Halvorson and Hebah Hussaina awarded Vanier scholarships for immunotherapy and mental health research

BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute (BCCHR) is proud to announce that two of its outstanding research trainees, Torin Halvorson, an MD/PhD student working with the Levings research team, and Hebah Hussaina, a graduate research assistant in the Brussoni Lab, have been awarded the prestigious 2024 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship.

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Studies highlight the impact of the pandemic on children and youth’s mental health

The Pediatric Outcome ImProvement through COordination of Research Networks — which involves BCCHR — has published their latest research findings on mental health hospitalizations of children and youth throughout the pandemic. These findings led the team to a second study where they evaluated the relationship between hospital admissions for eating disorders and public health restrictions.

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Collaboration was key to discovery about newborn immunity

Investigators at the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute have made a finding that could eventually lead to therapeutic interventions for sepsis, lung disease, and other complications in premature newborns.

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