WHRI Research Facilities

The WHRI Investigators have access to two core web lab facilities on the Oak Street Campus: the Skidmore-Goodman Wet Lab and the BC Women’s Research Lab.

Translational research in these laboratories span a range of areas, such as reproductive infectious diseases, HIV in pregnancy, recurrent pregnancy loss, and endometriosis.
Photo credit: UBC Faculty of Medicine, BC Women’s Health Foundation
LAB services + Equipment
Skidmore-Goodman Wet Lab
BC Women's Research Lab

Equipment is available for services such as:

  • Tissue processing
  • Cell culture
  • Real-time PCR ELISA, Western blot
  • Bright field and fluorescence imaging 

For more information about the Skidmore-Goodman lab, please contact WHRI Assistant Director, Dr. Paul Yong at pyong@cw.bc.ca. 

Location: 1R.35 (1st Floor), BC Women’s Crossroads (Entrance 93)

Services Offered:

  • Adult blood draws
  • Sample processing
  • Storage
  • Shipping

For more information on this service, please contact the BC Women’s Research Lab Coordinator, Beheroze Sattha, via email beheroze.sattha@cw.bc.ca or call 604-875-2000 extension 5677.

Location: 4th Floor, Shaughnessy Building (Entrance 77)

other resources

Explore the other facilities available to WHRI researchers on the Oak Street Campus: 

  • Perinatal Research IMaging and Evaluation (PRIME) Centre: an ultrasound research facility and hub for researchers to collaborate and to advance health care through the use of cutting edge technology.
  • BC Children’s Hospital Biobank: The BioBank collects samples such as blood, tissue, bone marrow, urine, cerebrospinal fluid, saliva, and pregnancy-related samples such as placenta, cord blood, and maternal blood from patients who are seeking care at either BCCH or BCWH. These samples are available on request for ethically-approved research projects worldwide.
our partners

The Women’s Health Research Institute would like to acknowledge that we are uninvited guests on the unceded ancestral territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lo, and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-waututh) Nations.

As a provincial research institute committed to improving the health outcomes of women, including those across the 2SLGBTQIA+ spectrum, we recognize our responsibility in the collective effort towards establishing culturally safe health care systems and services that address health inequities among Indigenous peoples, especially Indigenous women, girls, and Two-spirit peoples.

We encourage all people involved in research to read both the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action and the In Plain Sight Report, and reflect on ways we can incorporate the recommendations into our work. As we gather in spaces together, we encourage you to reflect on your positionality on these lands and your personal commitments to reconciliation.

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