MEDTalks: The Genomics Revolution

24 January 2017 6:30 pm

Venue: Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre Jack Poole Hall (2nd Floor)
Tags: Alumni, dentistry, IKBLC, Medicine, pharmaceutical sciences, UBC

Presented by UBC Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Dentistry, and Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, in partnership with alumni UBC The sequencing of the human genome has been hailed as a scientific breakthrough in that it has opened the human genetic blueprint to investigations of all questions ranging from human origins to the understanding of health […]

Master Mind Master Class with Homa Hoodfar

08 March 2017 6:30 pm

Venue: Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre
Tags: Alumni, master mind, UBC

In March 2016, Canadian-Iranian academic Homa Hoodfar, best known for her research on the role of women in Muslim societies, was arrested in Tehran by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. She was accused publicly of “dabbling in feminism and security matters” related to the recent election, and in June, after her bail was increased, she was jailed in Tehran’s Evin […]