Clinic NewsBlog

COVID-19 and Transplantation

COVID-19 and Transplantation: Finding Answers Through Research with Dr. James Lan As more becomes known about COVID-19, the need for knowledge specific to transplant recipients becomes increasingly important, especially given their unique immunosuppressed state. In British Columbia alone, more than 5,200 solid organ transplant recipients are living through the pandemic and navigating life in the...

Celebrate Transplant Research 2018

Celebrate Transplant Research 2018

With a movement towards greater patient engagement in Canadian research, it has become even more important to involve our transplant community in the research we fund. One key way we endeavour to do this is by sharing updates on our funded projects with our community at our annual Celebrate Transplant Research event. This September marked...

Community Profile: Dr. Amee Manges

Community Profile: Dr. Amee Manges

Dr. Amee Manges is one of the recipients of the 2015-2016 TRF Venture Grants. What do you do? I am an Associate Professor at the UBC School of Population and Public Health and Director of the UBC Master of Public Health Program. I am a molecular epidemiologist and supervise a research laboratory housed at British...

Novel studies examine organ donation disparity in BC’s ethnic communities and “personalized medicine” approach to transplant patient care

VANCOUVER, September 20, 2016 – Dr. Jagbir Gill is often the bearer of bad news for his patients who desperately need a kidney transplant because the wait times can be upwards of eight years, especially for certain ethnic communities. “While South Asian and Chinese Canadians make up nearly 20% of all British Columbians, they account...

Transplant Research Newsletter – Summer 2016

Transplant Research Newsletter – Summer 2016

Venture Grants Research Program Your donations at work making a difference to transplant patients A second chance at life through organ transplantation is an incredible gift – one that has become an effective treatment for end-stage organ failure. But, transplant is not a cure. At least not yet. This is where the Transplant Research Foundation...

Transplant Research Newsletter – Winter 2016

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...