Year in Review 2024

As 2024 comes to a close, we’re taking a look back at a few of the Faculty of Medicine’s many achievements from the past year and looking ahead at what’s to come. Explore the highlights and learn about some of our bold plans and ambitions for the Faculty’s upcoming 75th-anniversary year — and beyond.

At Canada’s Immuno-Engineering and Biomanufacturing Hub, UBC researchers and partners nationwide are advancing the discovery and manufacture of lifesaving medicines.

Accelerating drug development and biomanufacturing

The Real-Time Virtual Support Network is helping to save lives and transform healthcare for remote, rural and Indigenous communities across B.C.

Virtual care on the frontlines

The Faculty of Medicine welcomes a record 328 first-year students from diverse disciplines and backgrounds to the MD Undergraduate Program.

Opening our doors to the largest MD class in our history

UBC scientists are using a unique research tool to crack open better treatments for childhood cancers.

Could chicken eggs help revolutionize cancer treatment for children?

In the world’s longest study of its kind, UBC researchers show that exercise improves brain health for chronic stroke survivors.

The healing power of exercise after stroke

Dean Harris (right), a former participant of seed2STEM, with two colleagues from ICORD’s Orthopaedic and Injury Biomechanics Group. Credit: Martin Dee/ICORD.

An innovative UBC summer internship program for Indigenous high-school students opens up new educational and career possibilities in medicine.

Strengthening STEM pathways for Indigenous youth

UBC’s Rural Immersion program enables resident doctors to further specialize in rural family medicine by training in a single northern B.C. community.

New rural family medicine residency program

UBC researchers are using artificial intelligence to identify which patients could benefit from more comprehensive treatment.

Discovering a high-risk form of endometrial cancer using AI

UBC researchers have developed a groundbreaking coating for medical devices that could help millions of patients avoid serious complications.

Reducing risk of blood clots and bleeding

Indigenous Elders, community members, family, faculty and staff gathered for a ceremony filled with culture and tradition.

Honouring Indigenous medical and midwifery graduates

A cutting-edge imaging technique is opening new frontiers in treatment discovery and development.

Drug discovery at an atomic scale

State-of-the-art space in the Fraser region brings UBC midwifery, occupational therapy and physical therapy students together for collaborative learning.

Students welcomed to new Surrey training facility

Looking ahead to the future

The purpose-built SBME, opening 2025, will bring together researchers, learners and biotech partners to transform the future of human health.

Sparking innovation and partnership at the new UBC School of Biomedical Engineering

The Northern Centre for Clinical Research is creating more opportunities for biomedical research and clinical trials — in a uniquely northern context.

Expanding clinical research in northern B.C. 

UBC’s Indigenous Speaker Series is advancing reconciliation by transforming culture inside the Faculty of Medicine and beyond.

Centering Indigenous voices in the culture of medicine 

UBC’s distributed medical education program enables learners to train and live in their communities, while enhancing the delivery of care for patients and their families.

Graduating more doctors and health professionals for B.C. 

UBC researchers are driving discoveries to transform brain health for everyone — from birth to old age.

Pathways: The Resilient Brain

Published: December 16, 2024