Home - UBC - SBME

SBME 2025 Symposium

Join us at the SBME Symposium on April 8th. This year’s theme focusses on the future of biomedical engineering and explores the latest cutting-edge biomedical research that transforms health. Engage with research from molecular and cellular realms to the macro level of human physiology. This community event invites students, researchers, industry, and other biomedical engineering enthusiasts to participate in an exciting day of research presentations and networking.

Official Opening – Open House

Join us on April 7 for interactive displays, tours and to learn more about how SBME is revolutionizing the future of healthcare through new treatments and technologies. We are thrilled to welcome you to our purpose designed new building, which serves as the heart of BC’s thriving life sciences ecosystem, generating the ground-breaking research, next-generation talent, and innovative spin-offs and ideas that will fuel the life sciences sector growth. Join us for interactive displays, tours and to learn more about how SBME is revolutionizing the future of healthcare through new treatments and technologies. All are welcome.

Join our Team

We are building a state-of-the-art facility, and are searching for Faculty to grow with us. Do you have the drive to transform health outcomes through collaborative research across engineering, medicine, and biology? Connect with us.

The Future of Medicine

SBME is at forefront of technology and biological science and the inventions and innovations that come out of our school impact health outcomes.

A Unique Curriculum

At the heart of our interdisciplinary programs is a unique blend of life sciences, engineering and design techniques and innovative technologies that students apply to the current and future challenges of health and healthcare.

Cutting-Edge Research

SBME Research tackles health and healthcare challenges across scales from the molecular to the macro level of human physiology. With advances in regenerative medicine, imaging, AI, cellular engineering and more.

Partnering For Impact

The key to changing health and healthcare for everyone lies in a collective, coordinated and convergent effort. We create paths to collaboration through partnerships with industry, government, academia, not-for-profits, research institutes and beyond.

Giving

The SBME has embarked on an exciting exploration of what is possible at the leading edge of interdisciplinary science. The School’s research and education initiatives, as well as its community of students, faculty and staff, are making an impact on health and healthcare right now. This is your opportunity to support the future of health and healthcare.

Latest News

Apr 16, 2025

Congratulations to Dr. Jenna Usprech, Recipient of the Killam Teaching Prize

Apr 07, 2025

UBC opens Gordon B. Shrum Building, Canada’s first purpose-built biomedical engineering facility

Apr 02, 2025

Canada’s U.S. brain gain is risky without more foundational support for science

Mar 21, 2025

SBME’s Mona Behrouzian Wins UBC’s Three Minute Thesis

Mar 20, 2025

Dr. Govind Kaigala Awarded the UBC Killam Accelerator Research Fellowship

Mar 19, 2025

Dr. Sarah Hedtrich Appointed Tier 1 Canada Research Chair

Mar 19, 2025

Dr. Peter Zandstra Awarded Killam Prize in Engineering

Feb 27, 2025

SBME Welcomes Dr. Sarah Hedtrich

View All

Featured Events

Apr 22, 2025

Teaching Demonstration on topics including 3D printing, biomanufacturing, and biomaterials…

11am – 12pm

Research Seminar

May 22, 2025

SBME Research Seminar: The RNA folding problem remains open -…

11am – 12pm

Events Calendar

Highlights at SBME

0

PUBLICATIONS IN 2022

0%

IN TOP 1% JOURNALS

0M

RESEARCH FUNDING

0

GRANTS, CONTRACTS & FELLOWSHIPS

Be a part of the innovation happening at SBME – study, research or work with us.

Undergraduate Program Graduate Program Careers at SBME Applications & Admissions

What is biomedical engineering?

Learn what it means to engineer solutions to health and healthcare problems from both the inside and outside of biology.

Learn More

Transforming Healthcare