April 10, 2015 - 11:01 AM
As an undergraduate student in the School of Health and Exercise Sciences, Ryan Hoiland travelled on a scientific expedition to Nepal, working in the shadow of Mount Everest to study the effects of severe oxygen deprivation – hypoxia – and blood flow to the brain. Now his work as a graduate master’s student is paying off in new understandings about human physiology – based on UBC Okanagan research conducted at the international Pyramid Laboratory near Everest Base Camp.