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2025 Gairdner High School Symposium – Monday, October 20, 2025
The Gairdner High School Symposium is a half-day event held each fall that gives secondary students and teachers the opportunity to interact with Gairdner award-winning scientists and BC Children’s Hospital researchers. This event is scheduled for Monday, October 20, 2025. Grade 10-12 students can participate in-person or virtually in real-time. The registration form will be […]
2024 Gairdner High School Symposium – Monday, October 21, 2024
***REGISTRATION HAS CLOSED. THANK YOU FOR REGISTERING. ELIGIBLE STUDENTS WILL BE CONTACTED. Grade 10-12 students, teachers, and the academic community have the opportunity to hear from two Gairdner award-winning scientists and learn about the BC Children’s Hospital’s research facilities this Fall! Hosted by Dr. Michael Hayden, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, University of British […]
2024 Gairdner High School Symposium – Registration Page
Student Registration ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————– All Grade 10-12 students are eligible to participate in the Gairdner High School event. Registration is required. Before registering you will need to: Method of Participation ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————– In-person Monday, October 21 | 9:00 am – 12:15 pm Arrange to miss class and plan your own transportation to BC Children’s Hospital. You have […]
CMMT Research Day – September 27th, 2024
Please join us for a day of trainee talks, faculty speakers, poster presentations, lunch, social and more!!! Guest Speaker: Kym M Boycott Senior Scientist, CHEO Research Institute Kym Boycott is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Ottawa in Canada, where she is a Clinical Geneticist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), […]
2024 Vancouver Gairdner National Symposium – Monday, October 21, 2024 (SAVE THE DATE)
Hosted by: Dr. Michael Hayden, University Killam Professor, Department of Medical Genetics, UBC, Founding Director Emeritus, Senior Scientist, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, UBC Monday, October 21, 2024 IN-PERSON & ONLINE (Zoom details to follow) ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM 2:15 pm – 4:00 pm PST | Gairdner National Symposium | Venue: Room LSC 1002 LT2 […]
2023 Gairdner High School Symposium – October 23, 2023
REGISTRATION IS CLOSED. ELIGIBLE STUDENTS WILL BE CONTACTED SOON. Grade 10-12 students, teachers, and the academic community have the opportunity to hear from two Gairdner award-winning scientists and learn about the BC Children’s Hospital’s research facilities this Fall! Hosted by Drs. Michael Hayden & Bruce Verchere, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, University of British […]
2023 Vancouver Gairdner National Symposium – October 23, 2023
Students, teachers, and the academic community have the opportunity to hear from two Gairdner award-winning scientists and learn about the BC Children’s Hospital’s research facilities this Fall! Monday, October 23, 2023 @ 2:15pm-4pm IN-PERSON & ONLINE LSC 1002 LT2 Life Sciences Institute, UBC, 2350 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver BC, V6T 2A1 Zoom: Meeting ID: 665 […]
Mark Wang
Research Technician
Emily Harvey
Lab Manager & Neuropathology Technician Officially I am the Neuropathology Technician in the lab. I am from Surrey, I did my undergraduate degree at the University of Alberta in Molecular Biology and Genetics. I have a masters degree from the University of Calgary, where I studied neurodevelopment related to Autism Spectrum Disorder using mouse models. I […]
Wendy Lin
Research Technician I had a personal commitment to biomedical research and its promise of improving the quality of human health. I was equally concerned about the importance of ensuring the health and well-being of animals used in biomedical research. As animal care professional, my main concern is that animals are being treated humanely and fairly […]
Robert Tiszolczi
Finance Manager 3024-950 West 28th Avenue Vancouver, BC V5Z 4H4 604-875-3844
Qingwen Xia
Research Technician 950 West 28th Avenue Vancouver, BC V5Z 4H4
Jessica Shum
Research Coordinator Jessica is the research coordinator for Dr. Michael R. Hayden, Hayden Lab. She manages various research administration projects and communication functions related to collaborations and research grants. Jessica graduated from the UBC MSc Experimental Medicine program and has over 10 years of research experience.
Betty Nguyen
Research Technician 950 West 28th Avenue Vancouver, BC V5Z 4H4
Dawn Ng
Executive Assistant to Dr. Michael R. Hayden
Neel Mehta
Postdoctoral Fellow I am a Post-doctoral fellow working under the supervision of Dr. Michael Hayden and Dr. Colin Ross at the University of British Columbia in the Dept. of Medical Genetics. I am currently working on utilizing and optimizing adeno-associated virus (AAV) as safe and efficient tools for targeted delivery of genetic material for the […]
Jessica Dawson
Postdoctoral Fellow Jessica is an early career Medical Scientist and Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Human Genetics with a keen interest in exploring modifiers of neurodegenerative disease and genetic diversity. Jessica’s research has focused on the allele sequence diversity and genetic modifiers of Huntington disease and its phenocopy Huntington disease-like 2 in an understudied population. Jessica […]
Yun Ko
Research Technician 950 West 28th Avenue Vancouver, BC V5Z 4H4
Chris Kay
Research Associate Dr. Chris Kay is a geneticist and molecular biologist working to understand the pathogenesis of Huntington disease (HD). He earned his doctorate in Medical Genetics at the University of British Columbia under the guidance of Dr. Michael Hayden, leading target discovery of genetic variants for therapeutic silencing of the Huntington disease (HTT) gene. […]
Dr. Michael R. Hayden
Dr. Hayden is a Killam Professor at the University of British Columbia, the highest honour UBC can confer on any faculty member. Only 4 such awards have ever been conferred in the Faculty of Medicine. Dr. Hayden is also a Senior Scientist at the Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, UBC. Dr. Hayden was the […]
Nicholas Caron, PhD
Contact: ncaron@cmmt.ubc.ca Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is an accessible biofluid whose molecular composition reflects structural and functional changes in the brain, making it a promising biofluid for biomarker discovery in neurodegenerative disorders. My primary research interests focus on the identification and validation of molecular biomarkers for Huntington disease, which offer the potential to monitor cell-type and/or […]
Stephanie Bortnick
Huntington Disease (HD) Biobank Manager Stephanie manages the collection, storage, and sharing of biological samples from the HD community to facilitate research into more effective treatments for HD. Stephanie has worked with gifted patient samples for the past decade. Sample integrity, clinical comprehensiveness, and donor privacy are the cornerstones of research excellence, and Stephanie reflects […]
Virtual: CMMT 2021 Spring Symposium
Thursday, March 4, 2021 | 10:00 – 11:30 am Join trainees from the UBC Centre for Molecular Medicine & Therapeutics (CMMT) to learn more about genetic research and the translation of basic knowledge into new therapies. Trainees will demo a lab experiment, talk about their personal journey into science, talk about what drew them to UBC, talk about challenges […]
Virtual: 2020 Vancouver Gairdner National Symposium
Watch the video of the 2020 Gairdner National Symposium: HERE The Vancouver Gairdner High School & National Symposium is held each fall to give students, teachers, and the academic community the opportunity to hear from two Gairdner award-winning scientists and learn about the BC Children’s Hospital’s research facilities. Time: 2:00- 4:30 pm, Monday, October 26, […]