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Nobel laureate Dr. Michael Smith, founder of UBC's Biotechnology Laboratory - photo by Martin Dee
Research
UBC's research offices support the development of outstanding research in all disciplines including research carried out by graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and research associates. Their goals include increasing research funding from all sectors and to encourage local national and international research partnerships and exchanges.
Additionally, UBC research encourages and supports technology transfer and commercialization of research discoveries through patents, licenses and spin off company creation and develop new models for knowledge translation. In fact, UBC was listed in a 2005 article in The Scientist magazine as one of North America's top 10 universities for both the quantity and quality of life sciences patents issued.
UBC researchers attract hundreds of millions of dollars in research funding annually from government, industry and non-profit foundations.
The university's many present and past eminent researchers include Robert Mundell, UBC alumni, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1999, and the late Michael Smith, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1993.