Bruce Verchere, PhD

Co-Founder & Board Chair  

Dr. Bruce Verchere is a co-founder of Integrated Nanotherapeutics, Professor in the Departments of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Surgery at the University of British Columbia, former head of the Diabetes Research Program at the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute, Director of the UBC Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics (CMMT), and the Irving K Barber Chair in Diabetes Research. His research specializes in the development of therapeutic approaches for enhancing beta cell survival and function in diabetes. He has published over 150 manuscripts in the field of islet biology and diabetes. Dr. Verchere was awarded the UBC Outstanding Young Alumnus award in 2000, the Diabetes Canada Young Scientist award in 2006, and in 2012 received a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for diabetes research and service. Dr. Verchere has served as chair and member of many grant review panels for CIHR, JDRF, and NIH, and on multiple advisory boards including the CIHR Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism, and Diabetes Institute Advisory Board, the Diabetes Canada National Board of Directors, and as an associate editor at the journals Diabetologia and Diabetes.