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COVID-19 Collaboration Saves Lives of ICU Patients

March 26, 2025
As a major collaborative effort between frontline healthcare and academia, a province-wide biobank would bring together the individual efforts of teams like Dr. Sekhon’s and Dr. Wellington’s who are racing to understand the effects of SARS-CoV-2 on the body to discover new treatments. Read article ›

UBC researchers receive $3.4M to address brain injuries in survivors of intimate partner violence

February 7, 2025
Dr. Cheryl Wellington (second from left) and members of her lab are studying the use of fluid biomarkers to enable early detection of brain injury and other neurological disorders

Wellington lab acquires Canada’s first ARGO HT System for advanced biomarker detection

February 7, 2025
Dr. Cheryl Wellington’s lab recently acquired Canada’s first Alamar ARGO HT System, an advanced, fully automated analyzer designed to detect and quantify biomarkers in biological samples with ultra-high sensitivity.