The University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine News | June 12, 2025
Jump-started by a $22.5 million gift, UBC’s new AI and Health Network is deploying powerful artificial intelligence tools to drive health system innovation and improve patient care.
One project, led by UBC professor Dr. Sriram Subramaniam, is combining AI with advanced cryo-electron microscopy to design antibody treatments on a rapid time scale. These therapies can be tailored in near real-time to fight rapidly evolving viruses—such as COVID-19 or H5N1 bird flu—as well as cancers that gain mutations to become drug-resistant.