UBC COVID-19 Research

UBC researchers and their partners across all disciplines are responding to COVID-19. They are working to develop treatments and prevent its spread, and are bringing multi-faceted approaches to gain a deeper understanding of its impacts, and its cultural, social and historical context.

This site is gathering information about UBC research responses to COVID-19 and provides access to research funding, support and resources.

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Medical Response

Find out about UBC research projects investigating medical responses to COVID-19.

Social & Policy Response

UBC research projects are investigating social countermeasures to address COVID-19 and examining its social and economic impacts.

People

Meet the researchers responding to the COVID-19 outbreak across all disciplines.

Stories

March 28, 2022

New nasal spray treats Delta variant infection in mice, indicating broad spectrum results

Researchers have shown a new compound delivered in a nasal spray is highly effective in preventing and treating COVID-19 caused by the Delta variant in mice. The researchers, including at UBC, Université de Sherbrooke, and Cornell University, believe this is the first treatment of its kind proven...
February 9, 2022

Your Google symptom searches could improve COVID modelling

Adding Google searches for symptoms and other information to COVID forecast models increased their accuracy, recent UBC research has found. What’s Google got to do with it? Researchers led by UBC statistics professor Daniel McDonald (he/him) fed extra COVID-related information into a basic model,...
A person uses a dropper to place liquid onto a plastic device for rapid antigen testing of COVID-19.
December 23, 2021

UBC clinical trial supports new self-administered rapid antigen test

When it comes to COVID-19, peace of mind is difficult to come by. But thanks to new research compiled with data from UBC’s first on-campus clinical study, a new self-administered rapid antigen test will soon be available in Canada. It’s a tool that could help combat growing uncertainty, prevent...