Rare Disease Discovery
Uncovering hidden childhood genetic causes so families get real answers and hope.
Turvey Lab, BC Children’s Hospital and The University of British Columbia are located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples, including the xʷməθkʷəy$əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl,ilwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh).
Uncovering hidden childhood genetic causes so families get real answers and hope.
Turning cutting-edge discoveries into everyday clinical tools for faster, fairer, personalized care.
Following children from pregnancy onward to map how early life and microbes shape lifelong respiratory and immune health.
The rufous hummingbird is British Columbia's pride, summering along the Pacific Coast before undertaking one of the longest migrations of any bird relative to its body size, a creature that's resilient beyond measure. Hummingbirds are easy to underestimate, and yet they are built for endurance, precision, and a quiet ferocity that defies their size. That is who we represent. The children and families we care for navigate distances just as improbable, through diagnoses that reshape everything and through uncertainty that can feel endless. They are small but extremely tough. The wingbeat of the hummingbird is invisible at normal speed and its extraordinary effort is made invisible by its own precision and our lab has dedicated itself to this flight.