Research Spotlights

Technology to detect epileptic seizures may soon be more efficient and reliable than ever before, thanks to a new machine learning model developed by researchers at the University of British Columbia. 

While some…

The below news release, by Qin Dai at the University of Toronto's Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, features new research from the lab of UBC and U of T professor Peter Zandstra:

Although volleyball is a limited-contact sport, many volleyball players still sustain concussions from unfortunate encounters with high-speed balls. Now investigators at the University of British Columbia have found that the…

One morning in March 2006, eight men gathered in a hospital ward in northwest London. Young and healthy, they were there to participate in a clinical trial for TGN1412, an experimental arthritis and leukemia drug. At eight o’…

Led by electrical and computer engineering professor Dr. John Madden, the newly-formed Bionics Network connects over two dozen principal investigators at UBC, Simon Fraser University and the University of Victoria, working in…