Featured Presentations
2015
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Description Providing homecare nursing to cancer patients in the last months of life can potentially improve the quality and reduce the cost of end-of-life (EOL) care. Previous work in Ontario found a...
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About the speaker:
Marjorie Griffin Cohen is an economist who is a professor of Political Science and Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University. She has written extensively...
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The Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project (CPTP) is a national, long-term study that will follow over 300,000 men and women for up to 50 years. The CPTP aims to investigate environmental, lifestyle...
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From Late Effects Research to Quality Care: The Childhood, Adolescent, and Young Adult Cancer Survivor Program (CAYACS)
Details: Tuesday, February 3, 2015 - 11:30 to 12:30 PST Videoconferenced to...
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Cardiovascular disease is one of the main causes of death in Canada. In the same way that stopping smoking reduces your risk of getting lung cancer, moving away from traffic pollution lowers your risk of...
2014
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VDJServer is a freely available infrastructure enabling users to leverage national and international cyberinfrastructure for managing, sharing, archiving, and analyzing immune repertoire sequence data. We...
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About the Interviewee: Dr. Rina Zazkis is a Professor in the Faculty of Education and an associate member in the Department of Mathematics at Simon Fraser University. Dr. Zazkis completed her...
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In the past five years, high throughput immune repertoire sequencing has gone from a novel technique to a ubiquitous assay in immunology, bioengineering and diagnostics discovery. Although the method has...