News
08/03/2025: Isa Samad won the Raymond A Peterson Prize in Physiology at the Cellular & Physiological Sciences department Annual Research Day for the best oral presentation. Eliana Seburn won the Translational Research Award at the ICORD Annual Meeting. Big congrats to both of you, Isa and Eliana, we are proud of you!!
30/01/2025: The lab is awarded its first CIHR Project Grant to investigate cellular and molecular mechanisms of corticospinal axon regeneration following spinal cord injury.
05/12/2024: Isa, Sam, Hanna, and Eliana entered a Gingerbread House making competition put on by the ICORD Trainee Committee and their house, "Doubletree by Hilton", placed a close 2nd!
15/08/2024: Hanna Tagomori won a UBC 4 year fellowship and Isa Samad won the DMCBH Neural Repair (spinal cord) endowment. Congrats!!!
14/06/2024: The lab has won an NSERC Discovery Grant to study how neurons lose the capacity to grow axons during development. Brett is excited to do some growth cone biology.
02/05/2024: Timo Friedman is awarded a CIHR Fellowship. Congratulations Timo!
02/04/2024: Isa Samad is awarded a CIHR Canada Graduate Scholarship (Master's). Congratulations Isa!
21/09/2023: Brett received a Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research Award from the Brain Canada Foundation.
18/09/2023: Brett received a Scholar Award from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research.
01/09/2023: We're delighted to welcome Dr. Timo Friedman as the lab's first postdoc.
29/08/2023: We were fortunate to receive funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF).
01/05/2023: Navneet Gill has been awarded a UBC Faculty of Medicine Summer Student Research Program award. Congratulations Navneet!
01/04/2023: We are very excited to welcome Hanna Tagomori as the lab's first PhD student and Isa Samad as the lab's first Master's student. We're also looking forward to welcoming three undergraduates to the lab starting in May. Details in the "People" section will come shortly.
01/01/2023: Nicole Janzen joins as our first lab manager and Duo Cheng joins as our technician. Welcome Nicole and Duo, we are lucky to have you!
01/01/2023: The lab officially opened on the 5th floor of the Blusson Spinal Cord Centre. Thank you for the warm welcome ICORD, DMCBH, and Cellular & Physiological Sciences at UBC!
30/01/2025: The lab is awarded its first CIHR Project Grant to investigate cellular and molecular mechanisms of corticospinal axon regeneration following spinal cord injury.
05/12/2024: Isa, Sam, Hanna, and Eliana entered a Gingerbread House making competition put on by the ICORD Trainee Committee and their house, "Doubletree by Hilton", placed a close 2nd!
15/08/2024: Hanna Tagomori won a UBC 4 year fellowship and Isa Samad won the DMCBH Neural Repair (spinal cord) endowment. Congrats!!!
14/06/2024: The lab has won an NSERC Discovery Grant to study how neurons lose the capacity to grow axons during development. Brett is excited to do some growth cone biology.
02/05/2024: Timo Friedman is awarded a CIHR Fellowship. Congratulations Timo!
02/04/2024: Isa Samad is awarded a CIHR Canada Graduate Scholarship (Master's). Congratulations Isa!
21/09/2023: Brett received a Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research Award from the Brain Canada Foundation.
18/09/2023: Brett received a Scholar Award from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research.
01/09/2023: We're delighted to welcome Dr. Timo Friedman as the lab's first postdoc.
29/08/2023: We were fortunate to receive funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF).
01/05/2023: Navneet Gill has been awarded a UBC Faculty of Medicine Summer Student Research Program award. Congratulations Navneet!
01/04/2023: We are very excited to welcome Hanna Tagomori as the lab's first PhD student and Isa Samad as the lab's first Master's student. We're also looking forward to welcoming three undergraduates to the lab starting in May. Details in the "People" section will come shortly.
01/01/2023: Nicole Janzen joins as our first lab manager and Duo Cheng joins as our technician. Welcome Nicole and Duo, we are lucky to have you!
01/01/2023: The lab officially opened on the 5th floor of the Blusson Spinal Cord Centre. Thank you for the warm welcome ICORD, DMCBH, and Cellular & Physiological Sciences at UBC!
