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Pamela Hoodless completed her PhD at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, followed by postdoctoral work at Rockefeller University and New York Hospital-Sick Children in Toronto. She joined the Department of Medical Genetics at the University of British Columbia in 2000, becoming a founding member of the School of Biomedical Engineering in 2017. Her contributions include being a member of the UBC Research Excellence Cluster in BC Regenerative Medicine. Hoodless's groundbreaking work on TGFβ signal transduction unveiled the mechanisms of Smad-mediated signaling. Her current research interlinks gene regulation and signal transduction with embryology, employing genomic technologies to comprehend genes that regulate organ identity, focusing on transcription and epigenetic factors that drive liver and heart valve formation. Hoodless utilizes genetic modification and model systems to study differentiation in mouse embryos and human pluripotent stem cells. She currently serves as the Director and Distinguished Scientist at the Terry Fox Laboratory, located at the BC Cancer Research Institute.
Offers course-only and thesis routes. Focus areas include philosophy of science, mind, ethics, and Asian philosophy.