Dr. David Granville

Professor

Faculty

Faculty of Medicine

University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Dr. Granville is a Professor in UBC's Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. He is currently a Principal Investigator at the ICORD Centre, the UBC Centre for Heart Lung Innovation and the Director of the Wound Healing and Chronic Disease Research Lab, BC Professional Firefighters' Burn and Wound Healing Research Laboratory. He also holds an adjunct appointment at Simon Fraser University.

Throughout his career, Granville has carried lab discoveries through to actual therapies. Early on, his R&D work at QLT Inc. on photodynamic therapy supported the approval of Visudyne in 1999, the first drug treatment for age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

 
Granville has received numerous awards including a Canada Research Chair, Canada Top 40 Under 40 Award, Business in Vancouver Forty Under 40, Canadian Association of Pathology Scientist Award, 2006 UBC Outstanding Young Alumnus Award. He is also a Fellow of the American Heart Association and a Scholar of the Royal Society of Canada. More recently,  Dr. Granville was the recipient of the prestigious Canadian Institutes for Health Research Institute of Aging Excellence in Research Prize (2022). 

His current research is focused on mechanisms of tissue injury, inflammation and repair and how aging and dysregulated inflammation affect such processes in the context of identifying new therapeutic targets for the treatment of age-related and/or chronic diseases. His recent research has led to the formation of the UBC-spin-off company, viDA Therapeutics, of which he is a co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer.  He collaborates actively with multiple members of the Vision Cluster on this work, advancing a new generation of tools that target the molecular drivers of the disease at their source.

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Dr. David Granville

Subcluster(s)
  • Theme 1: Basic Mechanisms of Vision
  • Theme 4: Vision Restorative Therapies and Community-Grounded Approaches to Care
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Vision: Molecules, Behaviour, Society Research Excellence Cluster

Eye Care Centre (VGH) 2550 Willow Street
Vancouver, BC Canada V5Z 3N9
Website vision.ubc.ca

Research Excellence Clusters at UBC Vancouver are funded through the Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters program.

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