The Kong Family fund vital research for neuromuscular diseases as a way of saying thank you.

Mike Severloh is lucky to be walking again. Last May, he was cycling in Kitsilano when he was T-boned by a car going down West 4th Avenue. Mike landed about 20 feet away, fracturing his left wrist and two vertebrae in his neck as well as suffering a severe head injury. He was taken to […]

Get to know Dr. Haakon Nygaard, renowned for his research on Alzheimer's disease.

Inspired by their matriarch, the Kong family has created a legacy fund in her memory.

The donation from the Francis’ will enable the recruitment of expert staff for the Hydrocephalus Clinic at VGH.

World-class skier Jamie Crane-Mauzy credits revolutionary brain surgery and VGH’s ICU team for saving her life.

The first fundraiser went so well that the group is now raising $160,000 for a component for the digital fluorescence microscope the first fundraiser purchased, and for materials and lab staff needed to study MS onset and progression in patients.

Dr. Thalia Field is on a mission to spare families from the pain that comes from strokes and dementia.

"My stay at VGH transformed my life. After years of medication and endless neurological testing, it was the specialists at VGH who made my seizures stop." - Natasha Wasmuth, very grateful patient.

In 2000, Marilyn Lenzen was dismayed to learn she had multiple sclerosis. Since her diagnosis, she has received care at UBC Hospital’s MS Clinic. As one of the most active MS programs in the world, the MS Clinic is at the forefront of patient care, treatment and research. To provide this outstanding calibre of care, […]