Training with AI to build more equitable healthcare
UBC medical students are leading the way across Canada in exploring how artificial intelligence (AI) and data literacy can help to improve the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease.
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Delivering AI’s promise of better health care
Jump-started by a $22.5 million gift, UBC’s new AI and Health Network is deploying powerful artificial intelligence tools to drive health system innovation and improve patient care.
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Donor-funded awards lighten the load for future doctors
UBC expands medical training to meet the needs of BC communities.
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UBC opens Gordon B. Shrum Building, Canada’s first purpose-built biomedical engineering facility
As Canada’s first purpose-built facility for biomedical engineering, the building brings together researchers, students and industry partners under one roof to advance biomedical research, education and innovation.
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Celebrating a decade of excellence in brain health
On February 8, donors and friends of the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health gathered to celebrate a decade of excellence in research, education and patient care since the official opening of the building in 2014.
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Donors’ dream for people with multiple sclerosis launches a new era of research at UBC
The new MS Research Network will bring innovative treatment options to BC patients sooner.
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UBC announces new Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Aging
A donor’s thoughtful philanthropy unites researchers across UBC to harness the science of healthy aging and help people grow older in good health.
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Bridging science and medicine
As Michelle Kwon worked on her PhD at UBC and then as a scientist in the biotech sector, she witnessed the potential of stem cells to transform medicine—and was inspired to do even more to help these new therapies reach patients.
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Creating those lightbulb moments
A caregiver draws on her lived experience to help shift future health providers’ assumptions about patients and families.
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The science of brain wellness
The human brain is among the most complex systems in the universe. It makes you who you are as a person, guiding your thoughts, feelings, personality and physical abilities.
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