Organization: University of British Columbia

TRIUMF building a new home for nuclear medicine in Vancouver to become leader in niche market of medical isotope production

TRIUMF is in the midst of a multi-year effort to establish an Institute for Advanced Medical Isotopes (IAMI), which would feature major infrastructure for creating and handling these radioactive products, as well as laboratories for testing them in scientific and clinical settings. While similar work takes place in a variety of university and hospital settings across the country, this facility is intended to concentrate all aspects of such work — from the creation of raw materials to clinical trial work of potential therapies — in a single location…

China, Canada to build Alzheimer’s research centre

A Chinese-Canadian research center for child development and the study of Alzheimer’s disease will be built at the Chongqing Children’s Hospital in Southwest China. The $4.8-million centre will be jointly funded by the hospital and the University of British Columbia. Under the agreement, signed October 22, researchers at the centre will study afflictions such as…