Category: Medicine
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Two Worlds Cancer Collaboration
The Rix Family Foundation funding has contributed to every aspect of Two Worlds Cancer Collaboration. Read more
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Personalized Onco-Genomics (POG) Program
Across cancer types, cutting-edge genomic analysis is being used to inform treatment planning. Read more
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BC Cancer Breast Cancer Research
The Rix Family Foundation has been a dedicated and generous supporter of BC Cancer’s breast cancer research program. Read more
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Gynecologic Cancer Research
VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation is grateful to The Rix Family Foundation for enabling life-saving ovarian and endometrial cancer research … Read more
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CMPT Accomplishments & Impacts
Canadian Microbiology Proficiency Testing (CMPT) and the Program Office for Laboratory Quality Management (POLQM) have a mandate to improve the quality of testing in Canada … Read more
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Canines for Care Program
VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation is grateful to The Rix Family Foundation for helping VGH pilot a canine scent detection program to track down harmful infections like C. difficile. Read more
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Philip Owen Professorship in Addiction Medicine Research
Dr. Nadia Fairbairn is a graduate of the BCCSU’s Addiction Medicine Research Fellowship and now director of this program that trains the next generation of clinician scientists in addiction medicine. Read more
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Canine Scent Detection
Thanks to philanthropic support, Vancouver Coastal Health’s (VCH) canine scent detection team – Canines for Care – has been sniffing out Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile) … Read more
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Faculty of Medicine
Early in his career as a family physician, Dr. Donald Rix, CM, OBC (1931-2009) recognized the importance of laboratory medicine. Read more
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Inspiration Gala
The annual BC Cancer Foundation’s Inspiration Gala fundraiser today announced $2.61 million was raised Saturday night to support research to advance screening of hereditary cancers in B.C. Read more
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