Faculty Recruitment

At BC Children's Hospital, we foster a multidisciplinary, collaborative environment for our research community of more than 1,500 members. This includes more than 400 principal investigators and their research teams. We cultivate ongoing research innovations by nurturing new and future independent researchers. More than 400 trainees (master's and doctoral students, postdoctoral fellows, and research associates) from around the world work with our established investigators.

In a joint effort with our partner academic institutes, BC Children's Hospital Research Institute is recruiting new faculty in a variety of research areas:

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National study on the social and economic costs of eating disorders in children and youth during COVID-19 a 'vast underestimate'

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New research tools can shed light on an understudied organ essential to our lives

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BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute brings Mini Science Night to Salmon Arm

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