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Ranked among the world’s top medical schools with the fifth-largest MD enrollment in North America, the UBC Faculty of Medicine is a leader in both the science and the practice of medicine. Across British Columbia, more than 12,000 faculty and staff are training the next generation of doctors, health care professionals, and medical researchers, making remarkable discoveries to help create the pathways to better health for our communities at home and around the world.
The UBC Faculty of Medicine offers a diverse array of training opportunities including cutting-edge research experiences in the biosciences, globally recognized population health education, quality health professional training, as well as several certificate and online training options. The Faculty of Medicine is home to more than 1,700 graduate students housed in 20 graduate programs (14 of which offer doctoral research options). Year after year, research excellence in the Faculty of Medicine is supported by investment from funding sources here at home and around the globe, receiving approximately more than $1.8B in total research funding since 2016.
We value our trainees and the creative input they have to scholarly activities at UBC. Our priority is to enable their maximum potential through flexible opportunities that provide a breadth of experiences tailored to their own individual career objectives. We maintain high standards of excellence, and work to create a community of intellectually and socially engaged scholars that work collaboratively with each other, the university, and the world, with the overarching goal of promoting the health of individuals and communities.
Most Faculty research is conducted under the auspices of 23 centres and institutes that are part of UBC or affiliated with it, in collaboration with our health partners.
UBC Faculty of Medicine provides innovative educational and research programs in the areas of health and life sciences through an integrated and province-wide delivery model in facilities at locations throughout British Columbia.
The Life Sciences Centre is the largest building on the UBC Vancouver campus. Completed in 2004, the $125 million, 52,165 sq metres building was built to accommodate the distributed medical educational program and the Life Sciences Institute.
The Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health (DMCBH), a partnership between the University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health, unites under one roof research and clinical expertise in neuroscience, psychiatry and neurology in order to accelerate discovery and translate new knowledge into better treatment and prevention strategies. DMCBH has both laboratory and clinical research areas within the Centre proper and in the UBC Hospital Koerner Pavilion. Our core facilities are essential to ongoing collaboration, teaching, and research.
The BC Children's Hospital Research Institute is it the largest research institute of its kind in Western Canada in terms of people, productivity, funding and size. With more than 350,000 square feet of space, the Institute has both 'wet bench' laboratory and 'dry lab' clinical research areas, and other areas to facilitate particular areas of research and training.
New knowledge and innovation are crucial to successfully identifying, addressing and overcoming the increasingly complex health-related challenges that influence the lives of all of us – in British Columbia, in Canada, and in countries and communities around the globe.
The UBC Faculty of Medicine is recognized nationally and internationally for research innovation that advances knowledge and translates new discoveries to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities. Research opportunities feature extensive collaborations across other faculties, health institutions and health partners across British Columbia, Canada and internationally.
The Faculty provides and fosters research excellence across the full continuum, from basic science to applied science and then to knowledge implementation, with a focus on precision health; cancer; brain and mental health; heart and lung health; population health; and chronic diseases.
| Name | Academic Unit(s) | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Gilbert, Mark | School of Population and Public Health | Public and population health; Development, implementation, evaluation and scale-up of innovative sexual health programs; Gay men’s sexual health, including sexual health literacy; Synergistic and integrated dynamics of infectious diseases, mental illness and other conditions |
| Gill, Sharlene | Division of Medical Oncology | Colorectal cancer, hepatobiliary malignancies, pancreatic cancer, phase II/III clinical trials, health outcomes research |
| Gill, Jagbir | Division of Nephrology | Kidney transplantation; Organ donation; Clinical epidemiology |
| Gill, John | Division of Nephrology | Clinical outcomes in kidney transplant patients; Access to kidney transplantation; Living donor transplantation; Cardiovascular risk in transplant patients |
| Gleave, Martin | Department of Urologic Sciences | Infectious diseases, interdisciplinary oncology, prostate |
| Glegg, Stephanie | Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy | Medical, health and life sciences; Social sciences; Child Development; Child & Family Health; Developmental Disabilities; Exercise for Children; Health services research; Substance Use and Addiction; rehabilitation; Translational Medical Research; Knowledge Translation/Mobilization; Social network analysis; Implementation Science |
| Goerges, Matthias | Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics | Electronic health (e-Health); Health information systems (including surveillance); Expert systems technologies in artificial intelligence; Anesthesiology; Medical devices; Human-computer systems and interface; Bio-signal processing and analysis; Digital health; predictive analytics; decision support systems; Critical Care Medicine; Biomedical Technologies; Health Care Technologies; Human Computer Interaction and Design; Medical informatics; Software Development; patient-oriented research; Data sharing / open data |
| Goldenberg, S Larry | Department of Urologic Sciences | prostate cancer, men’s health issues |
| Goldman, Ran | Department of Pediatrics | Evidence to Innovation; Pediatric Research in Emergency Therapeutics (PRETx) Program |
| Gonzalez-Montaner, Julio Sergio | Division of Infectious Diseases | Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, development of antiretroviral therapies and management strategies |
| Gourlay, William | Department of Urologic Sciences | renal transplantation |
| Granville, David | Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine | Autoimmunity; Medical molecular engineering of nucleic acids and proteins; Proteases; Granzymes; Extracellular matrix; Chronic inflammation; Aging; Disease models; Autoimmune disease; Skin; Vascular biology; Wound Healing |
| Greenblatt, Ethan | Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | |
| Gregory-Evans, Kevin | Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences | retina, stem cells, gene therapy, retinitis pigmentosa, macular degeneration, age-related macular degeneration, Stargardt’s disease, Best’s disease, x-linked retinoschisis, electroretinography., Eye, novel molcular approaches in the treatment of retinal disease, cell-based therapeutics ofr age-related macular degenration and retinitis pigmentosa, molecular defects underlying retinal disease |
| Greidanus, Nelson | Department of Orthopaedics | osteoarthritis and joint replacement procedures |
| Greyson, Devon | School of Population and Public Health | Medical, health and life sciences; Everyday health information behaviours & practices; Population health information interventions; Health mis/dis/malinformation; Vaccine confidence and decision making about vaccination; LGBTQ+ health; Qualitative and mixed methods |
| Griesdale, Donald E | Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Department of Medicine | Neurocritical care, traumatic brain injury, invasive neuromonitoring, airway management |
| Grocott, Hilary | Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics | |
| Grunau, Brian | Department of Emergency Medicine | Medical, health and life sciences; Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest; Resuscitation; Extracorporeal-CPR |
| Grunau, Ruth V | Department of Pediatrics | Biobehavioural regulation, brain and neurodevelopment in premature infants and children, Long-term effects of neonatal pain on stress regulation, brain, behavior, neurodevelopment, Infant pain and stress, Parenting stress, parent-infant interaction |
| Grzybowski, Stefan | Department of Family Practice | preconception care; prenatal care; rural obstetric outcomes |
| Gsponer, Joerg | Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Michael Smith Laboratories | Protein-DNA, protein-RNA and protein-protein interactions |
| Guenette, Jordan | Department of Physical Therapy | Respiratory diseases; Other biological sciences; Clinical exercise physiology; Cardiorespiratory physiology; Mechanisms and management of breathlessness and exercise intolerance; Chronic respiratory diseases |
| Guhn, Martin | Developmental psychology; Psychosocial, sociocultural and behavioral determinants of health; social context and child development/well-being; Population health; social determinants of health | |
| Gupta, Neeru | Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, School of Population and Public Health | relationship between the eye and other health conditions, blinding disease, Eyes and Vision |
This is an incomplete sample of recent publications in chronological order by UBC faculty members with a primary appointment in the Faculty of Medicine.
| Year | Citation | Program |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Dr. Gopal studied how different signals are altered in blood cells and surrounding cells within the bone marrow of Myelodysplastic syndrome and Acute myeloid leukemia patients. The findings from this research lead to the identification of a potential new biomarker to predict therapy response. | Doctor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Oncology (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Grin discovered that the SARS-CoV-2 main protease is secreted from cells, and identified its mechanism of secretion. He also showed that this protease cleaves specific interferons to dampen our antiviral responses. These findings advance our understanding of how viruses escape from immune responses to replicate and spread infections. | Doctor of Philosophy in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. He's research identified blood and cell-specific gene signatures associated with patient survival and specific subtypes of fibrotic interstitial lung disease (a.k.a. ILD). These results provide a foundation for developing peripheral biomarkers, which are needed to reduce diagnostic delays and improve clinical management of ILDs. | Doctor of Philosophy in Experimental Medicine (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Lindsay investigated how signals related to behaviour, emotional state, and context are represented in the anterior cingulate cortex. This work sheds light on the network function of this brain area, and its role in regulating the influence of emotion in motivated decision making. | Doctor of Philosophy in Neuroscience (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Sauge investigated how the byproduct of losartan, EXP3179, specifically improves blood vessel function by raising nitric oxide levels, regardless of its effects on blood pressure. Her research offers new insights into the protective roles of losartan in chronic lung diseases and paves the way for novel therapies beyond hypertension management. | Doctor of Philosophy in Pharmacology (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Dau studied the impact of cervical cancer treatment on Ugandan women and their children. She found that a cervical cancer diagnosis leads to financial insecurity and challenges meeting caregiving and household responsibilities. This research provides evidence to expand cervical cancer screening and treatment programs in Uganda and globally. | Doctor of Philosophy in Population and Public Health (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Islamzada studied Red Blood Cell deformability as a potential biomarker for longevity of blood transfusions, and showed how cell deformability is critical for allowing red blood cells to remain in circulation. Her findings may help identify donors who can provide long lasting red blood cells that could be beneficial to chronic transfusion recipients. | Doctor of Philosophy in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Kinshella studied whether the food women eat during pregnancy could help prevent pregnancy hypertension, a leading cause of maternal death. Her research in Kenya, Mozambique and The Gambia found a protective effect of dietary diversity alongside lower intake of unhealthy food groups. These findings support improving maternal health in Africa. | Doctor of Philosophy in Women+ and Children's Health Sciences (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Fraser studied Transmembrane Protease, Serine-2, a human protein present in the airways that is exploited by coronaviruses and influenza viruses for efficient viral infection. He discovered a method to isolate this protein, determine its 3-dimensional molecular structure, and pioneer drug development campaigns for novel respiratory antivirals. | Doctor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Oncology (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Petry Moecke's work advanced telehealth physiotherapy for Indigenous people, emphasizing the need to establish trusting therapeutic relationships. She developed best practice recommendations to help physiotherapists deliver culturally safe care to Indigenous people, enhancing healthcare access, experiences, and outcomes through telehealth. | Doctor of Philosophy in Rehabilitation Sciences (PhD) |
