UBC is helping to reshape health care through advances in genomics, proteomics, microbiomics and metabolomics, along with biomedical engineering and informatics. Our expanding ability to generate data from these realms, process it and act on it is transforming how we prevent, diagnose and manage complex diseases — moving away from a “one size fits all” strategy to approaches geared specifically to each individual patient.
New Initiatives
Learn more about precision health initiatives in the Faculty of Medicine including events and catalyst grants.
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Spotlight
Putting Canada at the forefront of precision medicine
Sriram Subramaniam joins UBC as the Gobind Khorana Canada Excellence Research Chair in Precision Cancer Drug Design.
UBC attracts over $40M to host Networks of Centres of Excellence in nanomedicines
Led by Pieter Cullis, the NanoMedicines Innovation Network aims to develop nanomedicines that will deliver drugs more specifically to the sites of disease.
New study first to identify an expanded section of DNA as cause of a rare genetic metabolic disorder
Researchers found an unusual genetic mutation behind three children’s undiagnosed, degenerative conditions.
New tumour test could guide personalized treatment for children with cancer
Scientists at UBC and BC Children’s Hospital are the first in Canada to use a new test for pediatric tumour analysis.
UBC researchers find gene signature that predicts outcome after spinal cord injury
The authors, including MD/PhD students, integrated data from decades of small-scale studies using a systems biology approach.
UBC Medicine receives 40% of national genomics funding
The 10 projects, totaling $101 million, include an effort to reduce the risk of kidney transplant rejection.
Uncoding cancer – one cell at a time
UBC Professor Sohrab Shah talks about his interests in biology and computer science, and why he thinks genomics will tip the scales in beating cancer.
Building an environment to combat prostate cancer
Collaborative research environment at the Vancouver Prostate Centre is transforming patient care.
Breakthrough discoveries change how we understand breast cancer
Scientists at UBC and the BC Cancer Agency have transformed our understanding of breast cancer and set the stage for the development of new treatments.
A Japanese art leads to a futuristic innovation – brain “organoids”
Spheroids of brain cells that were skewered onto needles could provide a more authentic, 3-D model for studying gliomas.