Assoc Professor
Department of Surgery, School of Biomedical Engineering, UBC Head of Diabetes Research BCCHR
Department of Surgery, School of Biomedical Engineering, UBC Head of Diabetes Research BCCHR
Francis obtained his PhD in Physiology from the University of British Columbia in
2003. Following this he moved to San Francisco supported by JDRF Postdoctoral
and Advanced Postdoctoral Fellowships with Michael German.
Francis was recruited to the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute in 2009
where he is head of the Canucks for Kids Fund Childhood Diabetes Research
Laboratories, an Associate Professor in the UBC Department of Surgery and a
Founding Member of the UBC School of Biomedical Engineering. Francis has been
supported by the Goepel Family/ Diabetes Canada Young Investigator Award in
Islet Cell Development; the JDRF Alan Permutt Career Development Award and a
Michael Smith Foundation for Health Sciences Scholar Award. In 2021, he was
awarded the Diabetes Canada/CIHR INMD Early Career Researcher Partnership
Award.
Francis’ work has led to publication of 67 highly-cited articles in top journals
including Diabetes, Diabetologia Developmental Cell, PNAS, Nature and Nature
Medicine. The Lynn Lab currently has 12 members and is funded by grants from the
JDRF, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Stem Cell Network and the BC Children’s Hospital
Foundation. Research is focused on understanding how we can improve the in vitro
development of cell-based therapies for diabetes by taking cues from embryonic
development.
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Saturday, October 28, 2023
14:00 – 15:00 EST