Research Excellence Clusters
These leading researchers are working closely together on problems that transcend traditional boundaries. Research clusters may involve UBC researchers from both our Vancouver and Okanagan campuses, in addition to collaborators from other industry, community and institutional partners.
The Eminence Program funds each cluster for three years. This initial investment is designed to catalyze research and knowledge creation initiatives at UBC Okanagan to attract further external opportunities.
Funded Research Clusters – 2023/24
Meet our newest Research Excellence Clusters—the seventh cohort funded by the Office of the Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation.
Digital Transparency
Creating digital literacy tools for better data safety.
Immunobiology
Researching immune cell interactions for better disease treatments.
Personalized Cancer Radiotherapy
Developing a blood test for individualized radiotherapy risks.
Renewed Research Clusters – 2023/24
Aging in Place
Optimizing active and healthy aging at home.
Homelessness
Identifying technology and service delivery solutions to reduce homelessness in vulnerable populations.
ACTIVE Research Clusters
FUNDED – 2022/23
- Battery Innovation
- Build Better
- Living with Wildfire in the BC Southern Interior
- Solar Energy for Net Zero
FUNDED – 2021/22
- Plastic Recycling
- Urban Indigenous Wellbeing
- Renewed: Green Infrastructure
- Renewed: Indigenous-Led Impact Assessment
funded – 2020/21
- Watershed Ecosystems
- Renewed: Exosome Isolation