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From carbon to the clouds: A methanol-to-jet fuel pathway

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Student team designs a process to turn captured CO2 into sustainable aviation fuel.

Hemp-based aerogel for apparel insulation

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UBC students design process to turn waste hemp into aerogel insulation.

A next-generation tablet coating

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UBC students develop an innovative coating to extend the life of pharmaceutical tablets.

BurgAir: A microbial meat alternative burger for a food-secure future

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Students design a burger that skips the farm.

Free-flowing pipes: Detergent lipase to break down kitchen oils

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Students design an enzyme solution to unclog drains.

A bioprocess to produce stem-cell-derived CAR-T cells for cancer treatment

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Capstone team design a bioprocess to deliver 22,000 CAR-T cancer treatments annually.

Closing the loop: Turning textile waste into feedstock

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UBC capstone team finds innovative way to turn old clothes into glucose.

UBC Applied Science researchers receive investment from New Frontiers in Research Fund Exploration competition

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This funding supports researchers to conduct innovative high-risk, high-reward interdisciplinary research.

Six UBC Applied Science experts announced as Canada Research Chairs

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Researchers from UBC Engineering and UBC Nursing have been named or renewed as Canada Research Chairs, representing an investment into UBC Applied Science's impactful, innovative work.

The living blueprint

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Dr. Chen, an assistant professor of civil engineering who leads the Construction Integration and Digitalization (CID) lab at UBC Okanagan, focuses on “digital construction”—not just robots on the ground, but the systems that tell robots (and humans…

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UBC is located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm people (Musqueam; which means 'People of the River Grass') and Syilx Okanagan Nation. The land has always been a place of learning for the Musqueam and Syilx peoples, who for millennia have passed on their culture, history and traditions from one generation to the next.

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