Centre for Heart Lung Innovation

Centre for Heart Lung Innovation at St. Paul’s Hospital, is a UBC research centre supported collaboratively by the University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine and Providence Health Care and is an affiliated Centre in the Institute for Heart + Lung Health (IHLH).

Led by Director, Dr. Keith Walley and Associate Directors, Dr. Gordon Francis and Dr Tillie Hackett, investigators and trainees at the Center for Heart Lung Innovation are using the best available technology to image and measure changes in molecules, cells, tissues, organs and whole organisms, including patients, in order to understand the link between our genes and the environment, in causing heart, lung, and blood vessel diseases.

A facility of this kind is transforming our capability to pursue major hypotheses about these devastating diseases, and provides a unique reference centre and training facility for our many partners in the academic and industrial sectors across Canada and North America.