researchers are leading scientific discoveries for a healthier future for all kids in BC and beyond
of our researchers are health care professionals providing care for kids at BC Children’s Hospital
patients and families are participating in 195 clinical trials to help develop new treatments
We need you today for a better tomorrow. Our kids are counting on it.
Read more“Some children can go through extremely stressful experiences and never develop mental illness, while others suffer from serious psychiatric disorders after one traumatic event. Why are some children more susceptible than others? Does the timing or length of the stressful experience make a difference? Our research could help answer these questions.”
Nadine Provençal
Read moreThere is a real movement worldwide to embrace the opportunities we have with epigenetics and DNA methylation to better understand fetal alcohol syndrome disorder. I’m pleased and proud that our team is at the forefront; that our research is the root of next-generation efforts towards a possible breakthrough in this condition.
Michael Steffen Kobor
Read moreIt’s hard to talk to a family in the clinic and have to tell them that I just don’t know or I just don’t have the answer to their question. These moments drive my research. I use research to answer the questions that I’m faced with every day when I treat patients.
Jonathan Rayment
Read more“These statistics sound impressive, and they are, but it’s important to remember that all these numbers represent actual kids treated here at BC Children’s. Thanks to the Pediatric Spinal Surgery Team there are dozens of children who didn’t have to go through the pain and stress of post-surgical infections, who got to leave the hospital sooner and didn’t have to go back for repeat surgeries.”
Firoz Miyanji
Read more"What if we could scan the brains of children with particular mental health concerns to help make an accurate diagnosis? We’d be able to provide the right treatment quickly and give children the best chance at long-term recovery. We might even be able to scan children who are at high risk for a particular disorder, and start treating them before symptoms develop. That’s the ultimate goal of my research."
Tamara Vanderwal
We believe there’s nothing we can’t do with your support. It can take years to turn scientific breakthrough into new interventions and treatments. Funding helps speed the pace of change. When given the resources, we can bring transformative therapies – and hope – out of the laboratory and into the clinic to save and improve children’s lives.