University of British Columbia (UBC)

Global research and training centre.

The University of British Columbia is a global centre for research and teaching, consistently ranked among the top 20 public universities in the world. Since 1915, UBC’s entrepreneurial spirit has embraced innovation and challenged the status quo. UBC encourages its students, staff and faculty to challenge convention, lead discovery and explore new ways of learning. At UBC, bold thinking is given a place to develop into ideas that can change the world.

Details last updated 12-Nov-2019

University of British Columbia (UBC) News

Calorie restriction and its effect on DNA methylation

Live Forever Club - 03-Mar-2023

Analysis of CALERIE trial shows a slowing down in the pace of ageing, but no immediate reduction in biological age

Professor emphasizes power of AI in faster development of new drugs

University of Toronto - 23-Jan-2020

Unimaginable potential of AI yet to be discovered and applied in medicine

Pirating a $7000 version of a million-dollar gene therapy

MIT Technology Review - 30-Aug-2019

This could be beneficial if things go well, but dangerous otherwise

Recent Advances in Regenerative Medicine

Fight Aging! - 09-Feb-2018

Progressing towards the ability to build complex tissues from a cell sample. Transplants of cell...

University of British Columbia (UBC) Creations

Ageing: a Gut Feeling - talk by Prof Linda Partridge

04-Jun-2021

17th D. Harold Copp Lecture hosted by the University of British Columbia, Faculty of Medicine (FREE)

People at University of British Columbia (UBC)

Jonathan Little

Associate Professor in the School of Health and Exercise Sciences at University of British Columbia

John Madden

Professor of Applied Science at University of British Columbia

Chris Overall

Professor & Canada research chair in Proteinase Proteomics & Systems Biology at the University of British Columbia, and Chair of the C-HPP component of the Human Proteome Project.

John Helliwell

Professor emeritus of economics at the University of British Columbia

Leili Rohani

Stem cell scientist at the University of British Columbia

Matilda van den Bosch

Assistant Professor at The University of British Columbia.

Eric S. Kim

Assistant Professor of Psychology & Data Scientist at the University of British Columbia

Michael Brauer

Professor in School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia.

Denise Daley

Associate Professor at the Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia

Brett Finlay

Canadian microbiologist

Jason Hein

Chemist at the University of British Columbia

Fabio Rossi

Professor in the School of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Medical Genetics at UBC.

Michael Hayden

Professor of Medical Genetics at the University of British Columbia