What a great feature on the CTN Guest Blog!! Our very own post-doc fellow, Dr. Oscar J. Pico Espinosa talks about his journey in healthcare and medicine research. He goes on to explain about the study he is currently working on called PrEP Implementation Project (PRIMP) and what he has learned so far from the […]

Congratulations Ashan for winning the Audience Choice Award on the Clinical (Dry Bench) side of his presentation at the St. Michael’s Hospital Research Student Association & Research Training Centre’s 5th Annual Elevator Pitch Competition. Way to go!

For Summit 2022: Pushing Possibilities, CBRC partnered with CATIE to create a series of short interviews with 2S/LGBTQ+ health leaders at the conference, asking them to share with us their thoughts about Summit 2022, including what they took taking away from the experience and their thoughts when it comes to pushing possibilities in queer and […]

CBRC’s annual knowledge exchange and capacity building conference on 2SLGBTQ+ health research, programming, and advocacy in Canada takes place online from October 18-20 and in-person on October 27-28. Summit 2022 begins with free online events beginning on October 18, and concludes with a two-day in-person conference held in Vancouver. PI of the Options Lab, Dr. […]

About a year ago, the US approved a new injectable drug that prevents HIV. Long-acting cabotegravir (CAB-LA) was found to be almost 100% effective at preventing HIV. Unfortunately, this new drug is not yet approved by Health Canada. The Future of PrEP is Now, research project, focuses primarily on community readiness for long-acting injectable PrEP […]

It is with our absolute pleasure to formally announce that we have secured funding from the CIHR Rapid Research Response Grant for the Canada-Africa Mpox Partnership (CAMP): Characterizing transmission dynamics and evaluating medical countermeasures to inform the clinical and public health response to Monkeypox. Read more about it here. We are very fortunate to have […]

The CIHR Canadian HIV Trials Network (CTN) is pleased to announce the 2023/2024 competition for the CTN Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards Program. Our team welcomes the opportunity to support applicants from within Canada to the competition. For detailed information on how to apply, download guidelines and application forms: https://www.hivnet.ubc.ca/join-the-ctn/post-doctoral-program/ Thank you À qui de droit, Le […]

Our very own MSc student Ashan Wijesinghe has been awarded the Mingyao Liu Graduate Award valued at $5000 through the 2022-23 Institute of Medical Science Graduate Student Awards Competition! Ashan is also the recipient of the 2022-23 Institute of Medical Science International Fee Subsidy Award valued at $6,000! This deserves a huge congratulations, the Options […]

Focus Group Opportunity for 2SGBQM! New “long-acting” forms of PrEP such as injections, implants, and new types of oral pills are being evaluated in clinical trials, and may soon be available in Canada. Rather than having to take a pill on a daily or “on demand” basis, “long-acting” PrEP could involve injections every 2 months, […]

Dr. Darrell Tan along side co-lead of the Prevention (PREV) Core, Dr. Trevor Hart and their research associate Cassandra Bertucci had a very successful CTN Fall Meeting which was the first hybrid (in-person/virtual) meeting. This definitely presented some new challenges but overall everything went very well. There were two guest speakers during the PREV Core […]