The start-up company SeraGene, spun out of NMIN and co-founded by NMIN research co-leader Dr. Christian Kastrup (UBC), NMIN HQP Amy Wong-Strilchuk, and NMIN’s Founding Scientific Director, Dr. Pieter Cullis, has received a 2022 “Amgen Golden Ticket” at the UBC-based SBME Innovates incubation hub. UBC’s School of Biomedical Engineering (SBME)… Read More »NMIN start-up SeraGene wins Amgen-sponsored incubation support
For their contributions to the development of an mRNA-based COVID vaccine, NMIN’s Founding Scientific Director, Dr. Pieter Cullis (UBC), together with his colleagues Drs Katalin Karikó (University of Szeged) and Drew Weissman (University of Pennsylvania), have been jointly awarded the 2022 Tang Prize in in Biopharmaceutical Science. The prize recognizes… Read More »Dr. Pieter Cullis & colleagues awarded 2022 Tang Prize
The NanoMedicines Innovation Network (NMIN) is pleased to announce the eight recipients of the 2022 NMIN Undergraduate Studentships in NanoMedicines Research awards. The awardees will receive a stipend of $1,500 a month for a maximum of four months between May 2022 and March 2023, to work on a nanomedicines-related research… Read More »2022 NMIN Undergraduate Studentships awarded
The NanoMedicines Innovation Network (NMIN) is pleased to announce eight new recipients of NMIN Advanced Training Certification (ATC). NMIN’s Advanced Training Certification, or ATC, recognizes an individual’s engagement in diverse capacity-building activities offered by NMIN, its partners, and other recognized organizations, where the learning involved goes “above and beyond” the… Read More »Eight new recipients of NMIN’s Advanced Training Certification (ATC) announced
NMIN’s Founding Director, Dr. Pieter Cullis, has been named an Officer of the Order of Canada, in recognition of his contributions to the advancement of biomedical research and drug development, and for his mentorship of the next generation of scientists and entrepreneurs. One of the nation’s highest forms of recognition,… Read More »Dr. Pieter Cullis named an Officer of the Order of Canada
The NanoMedicines Innovation Network (NMIN) is pleased to announce the recipient of its 2021 NMIN Postdoctoral Fellowship in Gene Therapy: Dr. Miffy Hok Yan Cheng. The awardee was selected by the members of NMIN’s Research Management Committee, based on the applicant’s qualifications, as well as the quality of the proposed… Read More »2021 NMIN Postdoctoral Fellowship in Gene Therapy winner announced
The NanoMedicines Innovation Network (NMIN) is pleased to announce the inaugural recipients of NMIN Advanced Training Certification (ATC). NMIN ATC recognizes an individual’s engagement in diverse capacity-building activities organized by NMIN, its partners, and/or other recognized organizations, where the learning involved goes “above and beyond” the training conventionally provided in… Read More »First recipients of NMIN’s Advanced Training Certification (ATC) announced
The NanoMedicines Innovation Network (NMIN) is pleased to announce the recipient of its inaugural NMIN Postdoctoral Award in Diagnostics: Dr. Yih Yang (Ian) Chen. The awardee was selected by the members of NMIN’s Research Management Committee, based on the applicant’s qualifications, as well as the quality of the proposed research… Read More »Inaugural NMIN Postdoctoral Award in Diagnostics winner announced
The NanoMedicines Innovation Network (NMIN) is pleased to announce the inaugural recipients of the NMIN Undergraduate Studentships in NanoMedicines Research. The awardees will receive a stipend of $1,500 a month for a maximum of three months between June 2021 and April 2022, to work on a nanomedicines-related research project under… Read More »Inaugural NMIN Undergraduate Studentships awarded
L to R: Drs. Robert Hancock, Edward Sargent, Pieter Cullis, John Marshall and David Wishart. Five NMIN researchers are numbered among the scholars listed in the 14th edition of “Highly Cited Researchers”—those with an h-index over 100—published by the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities. Among the 4730 scholars in the… Read More »Five NMIN researchers among the most “Highly Cited”