Dr. Michael Hayden – 2011 Canada Gairdner Wightman Award Recipient
The NGDI’s inaugural speaker, Dr. Michael Hayden has been awarded the prestigious 2011 Canada Gairner Wightman Award. Congratulations!
Mini-Symposium on Mycobacterial Research
Following the Keystone Symposium on TB being held here in Vancouver, five internationally known TB researchers are coming to the Child and Family Research Institute on January 20, 2011. Ricardo Manganelli, University of Padova, Italy Wilbert Bitter, VU University Medical Center, Netherlands Sarah Parker, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, USA Simon Waddell, Brighton & […]
Improving Maternal Health Worldwide
Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies A free public forum on maternal health was held on Thursday, October 21, 2010 at the Liu Institute for Global Issues. NGDI Associate, Dr. Farah Schroff was a panelist for the session. She was interviewed by Redeye Radio 102.7 about this issue. To listen to this 14 minute interview click here. […]
Drs. Wasan and Goulding to speak at UAEM Symposium November 20, 2010
UAEM University Neglected Disease and Innovation Symposium, Washington, DC.
NGDI Poster Presented at CUGH 2010 by Jennifer Choi
Jennifer Choi is presenting a poster on the NGDI at the Second Annual Meeting of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health.
Institute of Medicine of the National Academies talk – Jerry Spiegel
Jerry Spiegel has been invited to speak at the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies in Washington, DC on Sept 21-22, 2010.
VP Research & International Support for NGDI-UBC-Banaras Hindu University Initiative
Originally published on June 4, 2010 The NGDI-UBC has been awarded an International Research Collaboration Workshop Grant in the amount of $10,000 by the Office of the Vice President Research & International. This is support of a collaboration between NGDI-UBC and Dr. Shyam Sundar of Banaras Hindu University, India. Dr. Sundar is an expert on […]
September NGDI Symposium Speaker Additions
Originally published on May 7, 2010 The NGDI is pleased to announce the addition of Dr. Denis Martin and Dr. Richard Kohl to the speaker lineup in September. Also our new Keynote speaker will be Dr. Nigel Fisher. Dr. Martin is a Senior Project Manager, Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative, Geneva. Dr. Martin joined DNDi […]
Developing Treatments for Neglected Global Diseases: A seminar by Dr. Robert Hancock
Originally published on April 7, 2010 The Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences is proud to announce the following special seminar next week: Developing Treatments for Neglected Global Diseases Dr. Robert E.W. Hancock Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology University of British Columbia Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 12:00pm UBC, IRC 4
World Tuberculosis Day, March 24th, 2010
Originally published on March 12, 2010 TB awareness day at the University of British Columbia For the first time, we are marking World TB Day at the University of British Columbia (WTBD-UBC)! WTBD-UBC 2010 is designed to raise awareness about tuberculosis in the university community and in the general public. Tuberculosis (TB) remains an epidemic […]