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Globally, pneumonia and malaria are among the leading causes of death for children under five, due in part to health-care resource gaps in low- and middle-income countries. New BCCHR investigator and pediatric infectious diseases expert Dr. Michael T. Hawkes is developing diagnostic and treatment tools to address these shortages.

To help prevent more children from dying of sepsis, the Institute for Global Health is inviting researchers to help design an open-source algorithm that predicts in-hospital mortality in low- and middle-income countries.

Antimicrobial-resistant bacterial infections pose a significant challenge to health worldwide. Researchers in Dr. Manish Sadarangani’s lab say targeted vaccines are needed to combat antimicrobial resistance.

A new partnership between CIHR and CEPI will provide $2.7 million in grant funding to five Canadian researchers — including BC Children’s Hospital investigators — to pursue projects that will help prepare for future epidemic and pandemic threats.

BC Children's Hospital investigators lead a team of more than 90 international researchers on a study that proves a genetic variant can cause severe allergies.

Congratulations to the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute (BCCHR) and Women’s Health Research Institute (WHRI) investigators and their teams who were awarded $8 million in funding through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Fall 2022 Project Grant competition.

Dr. Astrid Christoffersen-Deb is a panellist at this year's Women in Science event. She shares how attending an all-girls Catholic elementary and high school nurtured her confidence, interests and sense of service, leading her to focus on the health of newborns, pregnant women and new mothers locally and abroad.

BC Children's Hospital researchers are part of a new international collaboration aimed at developing innovative treatments for osteosarcoma — a highly malignant bone cancer that commonly affects children and adolescents. 

Congratulations to the BCCHR and WHRI investigators and their teams who were awarded funding through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Spring 2022 Project Grant competition. Our research community received around $15 million in new research grants as principal investigators or co-investigators.

Experts from BC Children's Hospital and the University of British Columbia are among those calling for global COVID-19 vaccine equity.

BC Children’s and BC Women’s investigators received more than $6 million in new research grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Project Grants Spring 2021 competition.

New research published in The Lancet shows that twice as many people are dying of sepsis than previously estimated.

This year, on Friday, September 13, the Action on Sepsis Research Cluster is spreading the word about the risk of sepsis and the life-saving researching taking place in our city by hosting a public awareness event in the heart of downtown Vancouver.