UBC Researchers and Companies Win LifeSciences BC Awards

April 5, 2019

Congratulations to UBC winners at the recognized at the 21st Annual LifeSciences BC Awards on April 4

UBC researchers receiving awards: :

  • Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research – Aubrey J. Tingle Prize – Dr. Jerilynn Prior
  • Dr. Don Rix Award for Lifetime Achievement – Dr. Marco Marra

Companies founded by UBC faculty and students receiving awards:

  • Deal of the Year – Anandia Laboratories 
  • Growth Stage Life Sciences Company of the Year – Aspect Biosystems
  • LifeSciences Company of the Year – Terramera Inc.

Both Anandia and UBC spin-off company Aspect Biosystems received support from entrepreneurship@UBC, which provides the knowledge, tools and space for UBC entrepreneurs to succeed. Along with Terramera, Aspect also received funding from the UBC Seed Fund, which supports early stage UBC startups.

Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) - West, at UBC's Sauder School of Business, won the Strategic LifeSciences Partner of the Year Award.

 


First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s two main campuses are situated within the ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam people, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.



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