News and Events
Supporting Women’s Cancer Journeys One Listener at a Time
The GOSH Podcast creates a space for conversations with women affected by gynecologic cancers and ...Read More
Staff Spotlight — Cindy Shen: OVCARE Research Technician
Cindy Shen is a research assistant and technician at OVCARE, a research group led by Dr. David ...Read More
Division of Gynecologic Oncology Research Awards Recipient: Dr. Karolin Heinze
The UBC Division of Gynecologic Research Award is an annual award of up to $20,000 ...Read More
Funding Opportunity: GCI Clinical Trials Group Accelerating Grants Program
Deadline dates LOI due dateMay 3, 2021LOI resultsEnd of May, 2021Full application due dateJuly 5, ...Read More
UBC announces the 2021/22 Research Excellence Clusters
For the third year in a row, the Gynecologic Cancer Initiative (GCI) is excited to announce that ...Read More
Staff Spotlight — Rie Stadnichuk: Communications Assistant
As the new Communications Assistant with the Gynecologic Cancer Initiative (GCI), I hope to create ...Read More
Gynecologic Cancer Initiative Trainee Research Day
Register today! The Gynecologic Cancer Initiative Trainee Research Day is a virtual event to showcase ...Read More
Female Leaders in Gynecologic Cancer Research Spotlight on International Women’s Day
Celebrated globally, March 8th marks International Women’s Day, a day to celebrate women's achievements, raise ...Read More
Metabolic discovery may lead to new ways to treat ovarian cancer
BC Cancer researchers have now discovered a key finding that will help them use gene-engineering ...Read More
Algorithms learn the language of medicine to predict cancer risk
Data scientist Dr. Aline Talhouk, PhD’13 works within a clinical research team, where she has ...Read More
Global Excellence: Local Research Influences Major Worldwide Publication
In September, the 5th edition of the World Health Organization Classification of Female Genital Tract Tumours ...Read More
New Regional Collaboration will Accelerate Innovation in Data-Intensive Medical Science
What if some of the leading organizations in technology, research and medicine worked together to ...Read More
Dry Lab Harnesses Big Data for Gynecologic Cancer Research
The new informatics core at VGH is harmonizing data sets from around the province to ...Read More
Elimination in Our Sight
Dr. Gina Ogilvie and Genesa Greening on the importance of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) ...Read More
Gynecologic Cancer Initiative Virtual Town Hall
Thank you to everyone who came to our GCI Provincial Town Hall! On October 2, ...Read More
GCI Research Rounds: Dr. Shyh-Dar Li
The Gynecologic Cancer Initiative Research Rounds features researchers working on accelerating transformative research on prevention, ...Read More
BC Cancer Foundation 2020 Virtual Inspiration Gala
The BC Cancer Foundation 2020 Virtual Inspiration Gala is November 7th and will rally the ...Read More
Dr. Lori Brotto and Dr. David Huntsman elected as Canadian Academy of Health Sciences Fellows
Congratulations to Dr. Lori Brotto and Dr. David Huntsman for being newly elected as fellows ...Read More
Research discovery may offer new treatment options for people diagnosed with rare form of ovarian cancer
Small cell carcinoma of the ovary, hypercalcemic type (SCCOHT), is a particularly devastating cancer that ...Read More
New test paves the way for tailored treatment of deadliest form of ovarian cancer
UBC faculty of medicine researchers have led an international team in developing a new test ...Read More