The University of British Columbia

The University of British Columbia

Marquee

Illustration of researcher looking at a flask.

Igniting a biotech boom

Our researchers are advancing treatments for some of the biggest healthcare challenges we face

Spotlight

Researcher working in the lab.

CIEBH receives $1.55M to advance Canada’s health security

The hub will help develop made-in-Canada medicines and prepare for future health threats

Attend the Remembrance Day Ceremony at UBC

To honour and remember all those who served in times of war, military conflict and peace

UBC Debates mark with speech bubble illustrations

Can Aboriginal title and private ownership coexist?

Join us on November 16 as four prominent voices debate this important topic

Explore UBC

Research associate Dr. Gethin Owen holds a molecular model of the COVID-19 Omicron variant’s spike protein determined in the Subramaniam Lab using Cryo-EM.

Innovation, Research

Driving innovation in antibody therapeutics

PROGENITER is creating a rapid pipeline to develop and produce new antibody therapies

Canadian flag flying above UBC’s Rose Garden on Vancouver’s Point Grey campus

Innovation, Research

UBC joins Eurolife Network, advancing international biomedical collaboration

The first institution outside Europe to join the prestigious biomedical research network

Dream Photonics’ lab

Innovation, Research

How Dream Photonics is helping to transform advanced tech manufacturing in BC

A UBC spin-off company is helping companies scale and commercialize advanced technologies

Dr. Anna Blakney and her team in the lab

Developing the next generation of vaccines

AVENGER is devoloping RNA vaccines for everything from viruses to superbug bacteria to cancer

Marius Hölter, TKMS; Dr. Vicky Bungay, UBC Applied Science; Dr. Jeronimo Dzaack, TKMS; Dr. Yaser Roshan, UBC Applied Science

Innovation, Research

UBC partners with TKMS on dual-use innovation ecosystem

Partnership will accelerate impactful maritime and arctic research within the UBC Faculty of Applied Science

Patient partner Penelope Hedges in Iceland.

What can we learn from cancer super survivors?

UBC researchers are helping to lead a major project exploring why some ovarian cancer patients beat the odds

We acknowledge that UBC’s two main campuses are situated within the ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam people, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.