ATL is a company that provides services and accommodation to seniors. We are opening our newest Seniors Retirement home in 6 months and with the vaccines becoming more available to the seniors’ population, we are expecting more and more seniors to move into our facility by our August opening date. The intern’s primary role is […]

MOSAIC is a not-for-profit organization that provides settlement and employment services to immigrants, refugees, and mainstream communities (via WorkBC Employment Services) primarily in Vancouver and the Lower Mainland. As a part of the Business Development Team, the Intern would assist the team by conducting market research in identifying opportunities for growth. They will also assist […]

While promoting the destruction of the majority of tumour cells, chemotherapy treatment in cancer patients also permits chemo-resistant, senescent tumour cells to survive. Such senescent cells can live off dead tumour cells during and after chemotherapy. They can then form new tumours, resulting in disease progression. We have recently observed that chemotherapy treatment also induces […]

Infection causing bacteria often grow as a community called a biofilm, which once formed becomes protected from the outside environment. In the context of a human infection, this means a biofilm is more resistant to both the immune system and external interventions such as antibiotics. For this reason, biofilms are proposed to be the link […]

We propose a meta-analytic project which aims at summarizing Post-Authorization Surveillance Safety data on Advate, a recombinant FVIII concentrates used to treat patients with Hemophilia A. The study will involve the largest cohort of hemophilia patients on FVIII concentrates analyzed in theliterature. The project represents an attempt to sustain a methodologically strong approach in the […]

Brachytherapy dosimetry is traditionally based on the American Association for Physicists in Medicine Task Group No. 43 report, referred to as TG-43. The TG-43 dose calculation formalism describes dose delivery around a single source centrally positioned in a spherical water phantom. Patient geometry, tissue compositions, and density heterogeneities are ignored, as are foreign objects such […]

Emerging my previous research with BC Cancer Agency is the notion of care coordination, a fundamental component of supportive care. Care coordination is an approach to care that attends to the unique needs of patients from the time of diagnosis through treatment and beyond across the following domains: practical, family (relationships), emotional, spiritual, physical, social, […]

The historic events of the spring of 2020 – the collision of the worst public health crisis in a century and the largest Black civil rights movement in half a century – offer a unique opportunity to examine how the frustrations and hopes of Black young adults were affected. We sought to understand the potentially […]

The project will include research on the lives of social assistance recipients, Furthermore, we will research what life on welfare is like for its recipients, and the struggles of applying, and being denied social assistance. We will create a webpage designed to help community organizations better assist individuals on welfare. In doing so, we will […]

Sara Riel Inc.’s Equal Housing Initiative is working on the McLaren Hotel redevelopment project. The McLaren Hotel is a single room occupancy hotel that houses 150 residents and is in dire need of repair. Last year, the owner proposed the construction of an addition to make more room for dignified living space (108 new suites) […]

The intern will be co-developing the methodology and framework for conducting an internal language audit through five potential lenses: 1) gender equality / neutrality 2) Reconciliation 3) diversity and inclusion 4) harm reduction 5) trauma-informed care. This audit should ensure that the language used is reflective of the commitment to these philosophies and result in […]

Brandon Food Council (BFC), a project and subsidiary of the non-profit Food Matters Manitoba, is entering the final stages under its parent organization and getting ready to step out as an independent organization of its own. BFC’s business plan is focused on food security issues in Brandon, using community-initiated and volunteer-oriented programs to combat the […]