• MS in Microbiology and Immunology at The University of British Columbia is offered as a 2-year program.
  • It is an on-campus program offered on a full-time basis only.
  • The Microbiology and Immunology program involves immune cells, bacteria, fungi, viruses, and parasites.
  • Students can investigate the ecology, evolution, and environments of micro-organisms, the diseases they cause, the microbiome, and its influence on the immune system and our health, immunity, and disease.
  • Students are seeking solutions to the problem of antibiotic resistance; designing new, combination drug therapies; using microbial engineering in industrial processing and environmental remediation; determining how our immune system can best protect us against infection and cancer; using this information to design new immunotherapies and treatments for inflammation and auto-immune diseases.