Network analysis of intellectual property that paved the way for COVID-19 mRNA vaccines such as Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna shows that two universities: University of Pennsylvania and the University of British Columbia played key roles. Nat Biotechnol 39, 546–548 (2021).

Check our recent publication: An Effective and Safe Enkephalin Analog for Antinociception. mdpi.com/1999-4923/13/7… #opioidcrisis #chronicpain

Check our recent publication that made to the cover story of Journal of Controlled Release: Altering the intra-liver distribution of phospholipid-free small unilamellar vesicles using temperature-dependent size-tunability sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #livertargeting #liverdiseases

Our collaboration with Dr. Horacio Bach at Division of Infectious diseases, UBC has been published in Nanomaterials. mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/8…

COVID mRNA vaccines: While BNT and Moderna are on spotlight, key technologies were developed in labs in UBC, UPenn and NIH. Particularly, Canada is the driving force innovating the mRNA delivery technology, the key ingredient in those vaccines. nature.com/articles/s4158…

UBC will require COVID-19 testing for all students, faculty & staff, with exemptions provided for those who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. A process for confidential self-disclosure of vaccination status, with functionality for verification, will be implemented next week.

Congratulations to Anne Nguyen for receiving “CIHR Doctoral Award”, 2021

Congratulations to Nojoud AL Fayez for receiving “PhD Best Poster Award” at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences (CSPS).

Our recent work on drug targeting to hepatocytes has been published in Molecular Pharmaceutics. Happy reading. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Dr. Li will speak at the W.E.S.T. Webinar hosted by PrecisionNanoSystems on Wednesday, September 29, at 9 AM PT (11 AM CT). He will be presenting on Phospholipid-free Small Unilamellar Vesicles (PFSUVs) for Hepatocyte-targeted Drug Delivery. To register: lnkd.in/gbEEzXXX

Shyh-Dar Li et al. UBC Pharm Sci on a Rapidly Dissolvable Oral #Pediatric Formulation for Mefloquine Using #Liposomes pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.102…