Research Institutes and Centres

Associated Research Institutes/Centres

• Air Pollution Exposure Lab (APEL)
• Arthritis Research Centre of Canada (ARC)
  • Research focus:  consumer-driven clinical research and trials related to arthritis diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, care outcomes and quality of life issues
• BC Centre for Improved Cardiovascular Health (BC CICVH)
  • Research Focus: Outcomes research in cardiovascular health
  • Resources: Refinement of research questions, planning and study design, budget consultation, grant preparation
• Brain Research Centre
  • Research focus: neuroscience research with focus on promoting neuron survival and functional recovery
  • Resources: Peptide synthesis and In Vivo imaging
• Centre for Applied Neurogenetics
  • Research focus: to accelerate the development of novel therapeutics for patients with neurological disease
  • Resources: genetics, computing/statistics and molecular biology, model generation and characterization including behavioral testing, microdialysis, brain slice electrophysiology and neuropharmacology
• Centre for Blood Research
  • Research Focus: Outcomes research in cardiovascular health
  • Resources: Spectroscopy, Crystallography, Spectometry, netCAD
• Centre for Clinical Epidemiology & Evaluation (C2E2)
• Centre for Hip Health and Mobility (CHHM)
• Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research (CeMCOR)
  • Research focus: The physical and psychological causes and effects of ovulation disturbances on women’s overall health
• Centre for Respiratory, Cardiac, & Critical Care Medicine
• Chan-Yeung Centre for Occupational and Environmental Respiratory Disease (C2OERD)
  • Research focus: lung disease related to workplace and environmental exposures
• Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health (CBH)
  • Research focus: Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, ALS, MS, Mental Health and Addiction, Stroke, Neurotrauma
• GF Strong Rehabilitation Research Program
  • Research focus: to discover innovative solutions to optimize the outcomes of rehabilitation and improve the lives of those with disabilities and their families
• International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (ICORD)
  • Research focus: development and translation of more effective strategies promoting prevention of spinal cord injury, functional recovery, and improved quality of life after SCI
  • Resources: rehab gym, Access Lab (kitchen, physical activity labs), biomechanical engineering lab, neurophysiology and autonomic research labs
• Immunity and Infection Research Centre (IIRC)
  • Research focus: infectious disease, transplant immunology, molecular mechanisms of immune response
  • Resources: Cell analysis, gene analysis, protein/lipid analysis
• Leukemia/Bone Marrow Transplant Program
  • Research focus: Advancing knowledge of blood disorders and to meet the needs of patients for whom we provide care
  • Resources: Hematology cell bank of BC
• The Lung Centre
  • Research focus: pulmonary research and on-going clinical drug trials
• MS Clinic and Research Group
  • Research focus: improving all aspects of life for patients with MS
• MS/MRI Research Group
  • Research focus: developing better trial methodologies to improve the lives of people with neurological diseases
  • Resources: Consultation on study design and feasibility along with a full range of central MRI analysis services
• Pacific Parkinson Research Centre
  • Research focus: use of Positron Emission Tomography (PET), and recently with functional fMRI to study the natural history and progression of Parkinson disease, genetic forms of Parkinson, the complications of long-term disease and its therapy and the placebo effect
  • Resources: MRI, PET, Electrophysiology
• Seizure Investigation Unit
  • Resources: performs Electroencephalography (EEG) tests to record the electrical brain activity that occurs with seizures
• Vancouver Prostate Centre (VPC)
• Vancouver Stroke Program (VSP)
• VITALiTY Research Laboratory
  • Research Focus: Translational laboratory investigation in the field of aging, mobility, cognition, and mood

Associated Research Institutes/Centres

• BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
  • Research Focus: Epidemiology & Population Health, Gender & Sexual Health
  • Resources: Routine clinical HIV/AIDS lab services, specialized HIV related testing (including drug resistance and therapeutic drug monitoring)
• BC Centre of Excellence for Prevention or Organ Failure (PROOF)
  • Research Focus: Developing blood tests to better predict, diagnose, manage and treat heart, lung, and kidney disease
  • Resources: The PROOF Centre’s service arm provides expertise in computation, “-omic” science and biomarker workflow to organizations seeking to discover, develop, and implement blood-based molecular biomarkers in a clinical setting
• BC Centre on Substance Use
  • The BCCSU is a provincially networked organization with a mandate to develop, help implement, and evaluate evidence-based approaches to substance use and addiction.
  • The BCCSU seeks to achieve these goals through integrated activities of its three core functions: research and evaluation, education and training, and clinical care guidance.
  • Research Focus: Leading an innovative multidisciplinary program of research, monitoring, evaluation and quality improvement activities to guide health system improvements in the area of substance use
• Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences (CHEOS)
• Centre for Healthy Aging at Providence (CHAP)
• Centre for Heart Lung Innovation (HLI)
  • Research focus: Understanding the link between genes and the environment in causing heart, lung, and blood vessel disease
  • Resources: Cellular imaging and biophysics core, digital slide scanning, GEM facility, Graphic & Imaging services, Histology, HIC, Info Systems, Molecular Phenotyping and Genotyping, Registry and Biobank, Technology Development
• Centre for Practitioner Renewal (CPR)

Associated Research Institutes/Centres

• *BC Cancer Agency (BCCA)
• **BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC)
• BC Children's Hospital (BCCH)
• BC Mental Health & Substance Use Services (BCMHSUS)
• BC Provincial Renal Agency (BCPRA)
• BC Transplant (BCT) 
• BC Women's Hospital and Health Centre (BCWH)
• Cardiac Services BC
• Child & Family Research Institute (CFRI)
• Women's Health Research Institute (WHRI)

Associated Research Institutes/Centres

• BC Support Unit - Interior Centre
• Regional Alliance for Rural Health

Southern Medical Program