We are gearing up for this year’s 2016 Recycle Ride! Click HERE for the route map for the Golden Sombrero route. This is a grassroots event so not a formal “race”. There is NO registration fee but instead we ask for your support of the Addison Pediatric Transplant Research Project. Please DONATE HERE. The ride will...
Transplant Research Newsletter – Winter 2016
When a parent is told, “Your child needs an organ transplant,” it is the last chance for survival. But modern medicine has made transplantation a viable treatment option with dramatic improvements in patient survival rates over the last several decades. This also means more children with complex medical diagnoses who used to face poor outcomes and often death are now able to live longer...
Community Profile: Dr. Tom Byldt-Hansen
Dr. Tom Blydt-Hansen is the Director of the Pediatric Multi-Organ Transplant Program at BC Children’s Hospital, Associate Professor in the UBC Department of Pediatrics, the Director of Pediatric Transplantation with BC Transplant and a clinician scientist at Child and Family Research Institute (CFRI). What brought you into the field of pediatric transplantation? Transplantation has always been my first...
UBC Tx Training Program 19th Annual Transplantation Research Day
Details: Keynote Speakers: When altruism goes awry: Living Kidney Donors who Develop End Stage Renal Disease Lainie Friedman Ross, MD, PhD Carolyn and Matthew Bucksbaum Professor of Clinical Ethics Associate Director, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics University of Chicago and New era of transplantation: Organ scaffolds and 3D bio-printing Claudia Chavez-Munoz, MD, Ph.D. UBC...
Transplant Research Newsletter – Fall 2015
Message From The Chair Welcome to the first edition of our new quarterly Newsletter. Fall always seems to be a great time for new beginnings and it very much feels that way here at TRF! Our exciting new partnership with VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation is up and running. Long in the planning, this partnership brings both added...
Transplant Research Foundation of BC merges with VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation
A partnership between the Transplant Research Foundation of BC and our very own VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation was recently announced at our VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation’s Annual General Meeting in June. The Transplant Research Foundation of BC (TRF) is the only health foundation in Canada focused solely on funding scientific grants for research...
The Recycle Ride
Are you interested in supporting pediatric transplant research? Join us, July 26 for the Recycle Ride. A grass roots cycling event to raise money for the Addison Pediatric Transplant Research Project. There are a couple options for those who would like to ride. Or, if riding is not your thing, you can give a donation....
Annual Children’s Charity Classic Golf Tournament
URL: http://www.childrensots.org/golf
Annual Transplant Trot
URL: http://www.transplanttrot.ca/vancouver/
National Organ and Tissue Awareness Week
Every year, the third week of April marks National Organ and Tissue Awareness Week. It is a time to remind Canadians of the critical need for organ and tissue donation. Currently, there are over 4,500 people waiting for life-saving transplants in Canada. There are many ways to give. Register to donate your organs (https://register.transplant.bc.ca/), talk...