Career Opportunities

Research Interests: Geometry

Research Interests: property law , condominium law, legal history

Research Interests: ensuring older persons are taking medications that are a good fit, deprescribing, polypharmacy

Research Interests: Cataloguing and classification, Cultural Institutions (Museums, Libraries, etc.), Impacts of New Information Technologies, Information practice, Museum anthropology, Science and technology studies

Research Interests: Prostate Cancer , RNA splicing and Gene Regulation, drug development, Hormone Dependent Cancers, Endocrine Regulation, Premature Labour

Potential project areas:

1. neuroendocrine prostate cancer;
2. AR driven castrate-resistant prostate cancer
3. computer aided drug design 
4. cell free nucleotide biomarkers from liquid biopsy

Research Interests: Integrated Circuits, Computer Architecture, Computer Hardware, Computer-Aided Design Algorithms, Field-Programmable Gate Arrays, High-Level Synthesis

Potential project areas:

Debug for FPGAs FPGA Architectures CAD for FPGAs

Research Interests: Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms, Biomass, Carbohydrates, Cellulose, Chemical Synthesis and Catalysis, Enzymes, Microbiota, Plant cell walls, Polysaccharides

Research Interests: Canadian History before Confederation, Quebec History, Liberalism and Nationalism in Canada and Quebec, British North American Colonies (1749-1873), Canada and the Atlantic World, History of Quebec

Research Interests: Free accredited education, Preventive medicine, Sustainable Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Holocaust Studies, Exile Reintegration

Potential project areas:

I perform occasional domestic and global intervention research on physicians' and medical students' health practices and their effects on patients, on climate change, THC policy in Canada and the US, the built environment and health, and other topics of interest where I can make a particular difference [more on that here:  https://ubcmj.med.ubc.ca/becoming-a-health-advocate-an-interview-with-erica-frank/ ].

My primary research is on NextGenU.org, essentially the world's first free university (NextGenU.org is for credit, for free, unlike any other organization).  Starting with a focus in the health sciences, NextGenU.org's accredited courses are being used in 191 (of 193) UN Member States/Countries, and we have just launched our ultimate outcome:  U.S. accreditation for the first globally free degree, a Master's in Public Health [more about that MPH here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J9eS-jX32sINrqcFmtrG3gC86RtuSSyH/view?usp=sharing ]

Courses available for trainees and for research span from college-level pre-health sciences and community health worker trainings, through public health graduate training, and a MedSchoolInABox (codeveloped with Stanford, U of Toronto, and U Central Florida) that includes Graduate Medical Education. This educational system is not a set of Massive Open Online Courses -- courses are competency-based, and include online knowledge transfer, a web-based global peer community of practice, skills-based mentorships, and a free certificate. NextGenU.org's accredited partners, North American universities that are outstanding in each particular course topic, give learners credit for this training (or institutions can adopt them and use them with their students), all for the first time ever cost-free, and also advertisement-free, barrier-free, and carbon-free.  

Founded/invented by me in 2001 (predating MOOCs by 7 years), we globally launched our first full course in March 2012, with a dozen free, tested, and accredited health sciences courses currently offered at NextGenU.org.  We will enroll our first residents (in Texas) in July 2020; we are developing these Preventive Medicine residencies with the American College of Preventive Medicine, CDC, European Lifestyle Medicine Organization, Institute of Lifestyle Medicine at Harvard, Stanford Medicine, WHO, and others to create the first globally-available Graduate Medical Education.

We have tested and published on this free model in North American medical, public health, and undergraduate students, and in community health workers and primary care physicians in Kenya and in India, demonstrating as much knowledge gain and greater student satisfaction than with traditional courses, and the creation of a global community of practice.  You can see those publications here:  https://nextgenu.org/static/publications.html

And finally, NextGenU.org has a sustainable business model.  While we don't have $ currently designated for graduate students or postdocs, we have a $20 million endowment (from the Annenberg Physician Training Program) that covers many core expenses, and receive additional grants and contracts to create, test, and disseminate trainings from governments (e.g., $1.4 million from Grand Challenges Canada, US CDC), quasi-governmental organizations (e.g., NATO Science for Peace, WHO), universities, foundations, professional societies, and individuals.

I also have an appointment in CENES https://cenes.ubc.ca/profile/erica-frank/ exploring at the intersept of Exile Reintegration, Holocaust Studies, and Public Health.

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Cancer Genetics, Cancer biology, Genomic rearrangements, Genomics, Pancreas, Pathology, Patient derived models

Potential project areas:

We conduct translational cancer research and have various ongoing projects focusing on Pancreatic Cancer. We are looking for students interested in a bioinformatics and bench top project studying genomic alterations and rearrangements and students interested in the development and use of patient deterived organoid models for translational research including drug screening, metabolism, and idetification of treatment markers.