Four years ago, a team of clinician-scientists led by Bruce McManus, a Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, galvanized around a compelling idea – developing definitive and scalable tests to answer questions that now depend on painful, …
Transplant research is about tomorrow
Dr. Bruce McManus highlights the importance of the PROOF Centre’s work on this Global TV BC news piece on how smaller charities like the Transplant Research Foundation of BC fight for support. Click here to view the news video.…
$4.6 billion in healthcare costs in Canada by 2030? Click here to learn about the immense burden of COPD.
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Blood tests could replace biopsies by 2016
Researchers at the Centre of Excellence for Prevention of Organ Failure (PROOF) are working on sophisticated new blood-based biomarker tests that could ultimately do away with the need for biopsies, replacing them with blood tests. Read more: http://www.theprovince.com/health/Blood+tests+could+replace+biopsies+2016/7593929/story.html#ixzz2DZKJbHac…
Systems Shape Our Health
Dr. Bruce McManus writes about how systems science approaches could be hugely beneficial in tackling major health burdens in British Columbia, on the LifeSciences BC blog. Click here to read his guest post.…