Members in the News
Times Colonist: Sound thinking produces a winner:Honoured works look to stars, health, history May 5, 2012 (E. Paul Zehr)
Times Colonist: Ride to Live raises money or prostate cancer research May 4, 2012 (Fraser Hof)
Times Colonist: Finding the diabetes link: Family that faced this challenge now fascinated by research conducted by University of Victoria's Craig Brown April 26, 2012 (Craig Brown)
TumblerRidge News: $1 million donation to BC Cancer Foundation provides major boost to early cancer detection research in BC April 16, 2012 (Brad Nelson)
The Canadian: Toothpaste to Soap: Toxic Triclosan -- Anti-Bacterial destroys Environment
April 3, 2012 (Caren Helbing)
CNN Health: With autism, no longer invisible April 2, 2012
(Jim Tanaka)
Times Colonist: UVic scientists receive funding March 15, 2012
(Jeremy Wulff and Martin Boulanger)
CTV News: Reproductive Technology Research at UVic December 30, 2011
(Robert Burke)
The Vancouver Sun: BC Cancer Agency may be near ovarian cancer vaccine breakthrough December 19, 2011
(Brad Nelson)
CTV News: BC Cancer Agency Heads Ovarian Cancer Vaccine Breakthrough December 14, 2011
(Brad Nelson)
The Calgary Beacon: Cancer vaccine kills advanced tumors in lab within weeks December 14, 2011
(Brad Nelson)
The Vancouver Sun: Prostate research lifted by Movember funding November 28, 2011
(Fraser Hof)
The Globe and Mail: Fantasy no more: Scientists develop real Iron Man suits November 6, 2011
(E.Paul Zehr)
OakBay News: From Batman to Iron Man October 26, 2011 (E.Paul Zehr)
CTV News: Neuroscientist Explores Possibility of Becoming a Comic Book Superhero October 12, 2011
(E.Paul Zehr)
News1130: Prof believes Iron Man-like suit here within 30 years Sept 14, 2011
(E.Paul Zehr)
Saanich News: Early intervention key to surviving prostate cancer May 10, 2011
(Fraser Hof)
The National Post: Drug-resistant HIV genes isolated, giving hope for better treatment December 9, 2010
(Stephanie Willerth)
Science Now: The Vaccine That Came In From the Cold July 12, 2010
(Francis Nano)
For more coverage, check the CBR Audio/Video archives
CBR News and Print Coverage
The Martlet: Atifical Intelligence: friend or foe? Feb 2 2012
Oak Bay News: Cafe Scientifique puts research in perspective Jan 12, 2012
The Martlet: Drinking Beer and talking about Science, Nov 3, 2011
The Marlet: Growing new body parts with stem cells , Nov 3, 2011
Times Colonist Story: Experts to talk about strokes at UVic Forum
Heart and Stroke: Discover Research Publication (advertisement in page 4)
Oak Bay News: Stroke Seminar focuses on whole process
Dr. E. Paul Zehr - From brain to brawn: New insights into strengthening after stroke (December 8, 2009) - Times Colonist Article "Rebuilding the Body" January 2010
Dr. Brian Christie - Benefits of exercise for your brain: Hope or Hype? (February 5, 2009)
Times Colonist Article " Exericise helps keep brain fit, slows Alzheimers. Feb 2009
Torch Alumni Magazine "Drinking it in" Spring 2009
Dr. Caroline Cameron - Syphillis on the rise in BC: Basic research to the rescue (October 28, 2008)
Times Colonist Newspaper Article From Lab to Pub, Nov 7, 2008
Cafe Scientifique Radio Interviews
Dr. Nichole Fairbrother - "Throwing the baby off the balcony: New mother's thoughts of infant-related harm" (March 27,2012)
Interview on C-Fax 1070 Am with Dave Dickson
Dr. Kelli Stajdahur - "Death, Dying and Palliative Care" (Feb 28, 2012) Sponsored by the Centre on Aging, UVic.
Interview on C-Fax 1070 Am with Dave Dickson
Dr. Alexandra Branzan Albu - "Artificial Intelligence: Friend of Foe?" (Jan 24, 2012) Sponsored by the Centre on Aging, UVic.
Interview on C-Fax 1070 Am with Dave Dickson
Dr. Leigh Anne Swayne - "Growing and guiding new neurons in the healthy and injured brain" (Nov 22, 2011)
Interview on C-Fax 1070 Am with Dave Dickson
Dr. Stephanie Willerth - "Engineering repalcement organs: From stem cells to reality" (Oct 25, 2011)Interview on C-Fax 1070 AM with Dave Dickson
Dr. Vinay Bharadia - "From Brain Scans to Crossword Puzzles: The Latest Developments in the Early Detection and Prevention of Alzheimer Disease. (27 September 2011) Sponsored by the Centre on Aging, UVic. Interview on C-Fax 1070AM with Dave Dickson
"Focus on Stroke: From Bench to Bedside and Beyond" June 23, 2011
Interview with Dr. E. Paul Zehr on C-Fax 1070 Am with Dave Dickson
Dr. Will Cupples - "How does salt and blood pressure affect kidneys in people with diabetes" (May17,2011)
Interview on C-FAX 1070 Am with Dave Dickson
Dr. Laura Arbour - "Genetics Research and Community Collaboration: Exampls from First Nations and Inuit Populations" (19 April 2011) Interview on C-FAX 1070 Am with Dave Dickson (interview starts a few minutes into the podcast)
Dr. Bob Kowalewski -Turn up the heat - using the Large Hadron Collider to recreate the conditions one nanosecond at a time. ( 29 March 2011) Interview on C-FAX 1070 AM with Dave Dickson
Dr. Juan Ausio - What do frogs, the environment and our genes have in common? (1 March 2011) Interview on C-FAX 10170 AM with Dave Dickson
Dr. Craig Brown - What happens to your brain after stroke? Insights from brain imaging studies.(February 1, 2011) Interview on C-FAX 1070am, with Dave Dickson
Dr. Chris Pritchet - A Walk on the Dark Side - Dark Energy and the Mystery of the Accelerating Universe (January 11, 2011) Interview on C-FAX 1070am with Dave Dickson
Dr. Fraser Hof - The Ties that Bind: Human Interactions in Research, Protein Interactions in Cancer (December 7, 2010) Interview on C-FAX 1070am with Dave Dickson
How does the nervous system coordinate the arms and legs during walking? Professor Dr. E. Paul Zehr has expanded the focus of neuroscientists studying motor control, leading to new treatments for stroke victims. More
Dr. Chris Upton bridges gap between genetics and computers with the
Dr. Jim Tanaka, a cognitive neuroscientist, is examining whether autistic children can be taught to overcome "face blindness" by engaging a part of their brains, which they use to expertly recognize other objects. More
Dr. Terry Pearson is banking on mass spectrometry to be the next big thing for antibody-based diagnosis. More
Dr. Brad Nelson thinks the time is right for T cell therapy. More
Neuroscientist Dr. Raad Nashmi found a new pathway for nicotine addiction, which also helps explain nicotine’s benefits for those prone to Parkinson’s. More
Whether he is finding a genetic cure or tracking a rare mutation, Dr. Patrick Macleod is a vital link between patients and molecular researchers at the CBR. More
Dr. Ben Koop co-founded the consortium for Genomic Research on All Salmon Project (cGRASP), an international team devoted to understanding salmon from its DNA out: its evolutionary history, its ecology, its health. More
Neuroscientist Dr. Sandra Hundza explores ways to teach people to walk again after a neurotrauma like a stroke or spinal cord injury, based on understanding the neural patterns that control rhythmic movement
The field of signal transduction is fulfilling its early promise of cancer cures. Professor Dr. Perry Howard is looking for signals to kill cancer cells. More
Subheadline for CBR front page flash: Cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Clay Holroyd is rephrasing the symptom of “inability to focus” to “an inability to get the appropriate dopamine reward for focus.” More
If you can’t find the right chemical tool to suit your medical research, you could ask chemist Dr. Fraser Hof to build one. Histone experts eye up Hof’s latest: a synthetic molecule that binds histones, disrupting a gene regulation pathway. More
Forty years after Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring, Dr. Caren Helbing’s work warns us that we still don’t really know how to test for chemical contaminants in the environment. More
Dr. Barry Glickman helps Health
Dr. Roderick Edwards finds patterns invisible to the naked eye, as he seeks for order in systems as complex as neuronal nets. More
Dr. Johan de Boer describes how a salmon ancestor diverged so quickly into dozens of species thanks to transposons. More
Dr. Brian Christie was one of the first neuroscientists to discover that exercise promotes the generation of new brain cells. In his latest research, he found that exercise can even reverse FAS-related brain damage. More
Dr. Francis Choy's study of inherited diseases has immediate impact on patients. More
Dr. Robert Chow is finding genes that control eye development. More
When Dr. Caroline Cameron is not studying syphilis, she’s catching snot from whales: the strange path from syphilis to marine biology. More
Dr. Robert Burke has seen developmental biology grow up and zoom in. When he helped finish the sea urchin sequence in 2006, the field took another quantum leap forward. More
Dr. Juan Ausio helped figure out the structure and nature of chromatin, which led to the idea of a histone code. More