Childhood Diseases | Lab, Project & Program Websites

Our vision is to maintain an excellent, province-wide diagnostic service, providing timely access for children with rheumatic diseases, and to provide them with the best possible ongoing inter-professional team care.

Current and completed COVID-19 research led by researchers at BC Children's Hospital and BC Women's Hospital.

The Biochemical Genetics Clinic actively participates in the Canadian Inherited Metabolic Diseases Research Network (CIMDRN). CIMDRN provides the evidence needed to improve outcomes and health care services for children with inborn errors of metabolism (IEM).

CAN-ASC is a Canada-wide consortium of researchers and clinician scientists. We collaborate with international networks from academia and industry to develop consensus-driven, standardized and validated operating procedures (SOPs) for human immunology research.

For patients and families with unexplained health conditions, genome-wide sequencing can provide much-needed answers, but it can also raise a lot of questions. We are trying to figure out the best ways to provide genetic counselling for genome-wide sequencing in Canada so that we can best support these families. We will be looking into different clinical, ethical, and economic methods to make sure there is equitable access to genetic counselling and testing for all Canadians.

Research from the Levings Lab focuses on immune cells called T regulatory cells (Tregs) that are central to immune tolerance and are a very promising new therapeutic tool.

The Maxwell Lab focuses our studies on discovering and targeting molecular pathways that underlie hereditary cancers, understanding how cells grow and move in tissues and tumors, and collaborating and developing prospective personalized medicine in childhood cancers.

Researchers with the Michael Cuccione Childhood Cancer Research Program embrace one goal: to save children’s lives, while improving their health and quality of life through every phase of treatment and recovery. 

Reducing health care disparities and improving diagnostic success for children with genetic diseases from Indigenous populations

The BCCHR Trainee Omics Group is a team of enthusiastic trainees from across research themes at the BC Children's Research Institute who are eager to make bioinformatics accessible and fun for everyone!

We are a dynamic gut microbiome research group in Vancouver, BC. Directed by Dr. Bruce Vallance, our research focuses on microbe-host interactions within the intestine, including defining the role that gut microbes play in causing chronic intestinal inflammation.