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Alerts

MSHRBC 2022 Health Professional Investigator Award letter of intent deadline: Apr 29
The UBC Faculty of Science has launched another round of STAIR Grants, intended to catalyze inter-department and inter-Faculty collaborations. The Faculty of Medicine will support joint Medicine-Science proposals. Deadline: May 6 NEW

Research Funding Opportunities

UBC Health: Health Innovation Funding Investment
Description: Supports faculty members who are collaborating across faculties, disciplines, and campuses to develop new teams, pursue new ideas, or translate findings from innovative health-related research.
Amount: $25,000
Duration: 1 year
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: Apr 15

American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation: New Century Scholars Research Grant
Description: Designed to advance knowledge, tools, and techniques in communication sciences and disorders.
Amount: $25,000
Duration: Up to 2 years
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: Apr 20

American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation: Researcher-Practitioner Collaboration Grant
Description: Grants designed to support partnerships between academic or organizational researchers and clinical practitioners to conduct collaborative studies designed to enhance evidence for improving communication sciences and disorders services.
Amount: $35,000
Duration: Up to 2 years
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: Apr 20

Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative: Human Cognitive and Behavioral Science
Description: Supports research that produces foundational knowledge about the neurobehavioral differences associated with ASD to directly inform the development or refinement of tools needed for translational efforts, such as biomarkers and outcome measures.
Amount: Up to $900,000
Duration: Up to 3 years
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: Apr 25

Lung Cancer Research Foundation: Pilot Grant Program
Description: Supports innovative projects across the full spectrum of basic, translational, clinical, epidemiological, health services, early detection, disparities, and social determinants of health research in the area of lung cancer.
Amount: $150,000
Duration: 2 years
Eligibility: Postdoc, Faculty
Deadline: Apr 30 (LOI)

Mark Foundation for Cancer: Emerging Leader Awards
Description: Supports innovative cancer research from the next generation of leaders. These grants are awarded to outstanding early career investigators to support high-impact, high-risk projects that are distinct from their current research portfolio.
Amount: $750,000
Duration: 3 years
Eligibility: Junior and Mid-career Faculty
Deadline: May 2 (LOI)

Call for Nominations

UBC University Killam Professors

The UKP designation is the highest honour that the University can confer on a member of faculty. It recognizes exceptional members of faculty who are extraordinary teachers and researchers, who are leaders in their academic fields, and who have received national and international recognition. The Faculty of Medicine is launching an internal selection process to nominate up to 2 candidates to be considered for the UKP competition. | FoM internal nomination deadline: Jun 30

Events

Event: Discovery to Commercialization | Precision Drug Design: Unlocking a new era in therapeutics discovery
Description: Join us to hear from various local companies and key leaders that are translating drug discovery and development into targeted mechanisms and treatment options to improve patient outcomes and their lessons learned along the way.
Date & Time: Apr 13; 3-4:30pm
Location: Online via Zoom
Register: Visit our website to register

Other

New advanced research computing support for cloud computing and data transfer NEW

UBC Advanced Research Computing (ARC) is launching two new services that support UBC researchers to access cloud computing and transfer research data with ease.

UBC ARC RONIN provides UBC researchers with a user-friendly web interface to harness powerful and flexible cloud computing infrastructure without learning complex details of cloud computing. Configured to address the needs of the UBC research community, RONIN complements the existing ARC digital research infrastructure. Where budget is available, it provides flexible options to address specialized needs and ARC can assist with the purchasing or integrating of existing Amazon Web Services credits. See full details

Globus Plus expands the capacity of Globus, a widely used research-focused data management platform that lets users efficiently, securely, and reliably transfer data between a local computer, ARC Sockeye, ARC Chinook, and many research computing endpoints worldwide. The Globus Plus feature allows users to create shared endpoints from any computer and transfer files between two personal Globus endpoints. Learn more

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