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UBC Faculty of Medicine – 2018 Distinguished Achievement Award Dr. Janel Kopp – Overall Excellence Early Career

In recognition of outstanding contributions in the areas of research, education, and service.

UBC Faculty of Medicine – 2018 Distinguished Achievement Award Dr. Carol Ann Courneya – Excellence in Education

In recognition of significant contributions to health education in the areas of leadership, innovation, and/or scholarship of education.

The 14th D. Harold Copp Lecture: Nahum Sonenberg, PhD.

“Translational control of cancer and brain diseases via the mRNA cap-binding protein, eIF4E”

2018 CPS Grads

Congratulations to the graduating Cellular & Physiological Sciences class of 2018!

Iulia Dascalu, Wesbrook Scholar and HSBC Emerging Leader Scholarship recipient

Iulia Dacalu, third year CAPS specialization Honours B.Sc. student has been awarded our universities most prestigious scholarships, the Wesbrook and the HSBC Emerging Leader Scholarship

Congratulations to Annie Collins on her admission to Oxford Medical School

Annie completed her CAPS BSc honours thesis project with Dr. Douglas Allan on The BMP-driven gene regulatory network essential for motoneuron function in Drosophila.

2017 CPS Grads

Congratulations to the graduating Cellular & Physiological Sciences class of 2017!

13th Copp Lecture by Nobel Laureate Dr. Thomas Südhof

Towards a molecular logic of synaptic connections: Neurexins and their ligands

A Brain Tweak Lets Mice Abstain From Cocaine

Shernaz Bamji, Andrea Globa and Fergil Mills have created mice that appear impervious to the lure of cocaine