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Pamela Hoodless completed her PhD at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and pursued postdoctoral work at Rockefeller University and New York Hospital, followed by Sick Children in Toronto. She joined the Department of Medical Genetics at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in 2000 and became a founding member of the School of Biomedical Engineering in 2017. She is an active contributor to the UBC Research Excellence Cluster in British Columbia Regenerative Medicine. Her pioneering work on TGFβ signal transduction revealed the mechanisms of Smad-mediated signaling. Currently, her research focuses on gene regulation and signal transduction in embryology, utilizing genomic technologies to investigate how genes dictate organ identity, particularly the transcription and epigenetic factors influencing liver and heart valve formation. Hoodless uses genetic modification in model systems to explore differentiation in mouse embryos and human pluripotent stem cells. As the Director and Distinguished Scientist at the Terry Fox Laboratory, she directs research efforts at the BC Cancer Research Institute.
Offers course-only and thesis routes. Focus areas include philosophy of science, mind, ethics, and Asian philosophy.