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Research Funding Opportunities
UBC Health: Health Innovation Funding Investment
Description: Awarded to 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: Oct 14
Melanoma Research Alliance: Young Investigator Award
Description: Supports early-career faculty in support of innovative, original, preclinical, translational, and/or early clinical research projects in the area of melanomas.
Amount: $255,000
Duration: 3 years
Eligibility: Junior Faculty
Deadline: Oct 19
UBC VP Research & Innovation: Research Facility Support Grants
Description: Funding may be used to cover materials, supplies, replacement of broken parts, and minor upgrades essential to the operation and maintenance of the facility or shared equipment, as well as bridge funding for salaries of research support staff employed to operate and maintain the facility and provide assistance to users.
Amount: $50,000
Duration: 1 year
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: Oct 24
BrightFocus Foundation: Applications for Glaucoma Research
Description: Supports research on the causes of or treatments for glaucoma.
Amount: Up to $200,000
Duration: Up to 2 years
Eligibility: Postdocs/Faculty
Deadline: Oct 25
Infectious Diseases Society of America Foundation: Microbial Pathogenesis in Alzheimer's Disease
Description: Supports innovative research, including basic, clinical, and/or non-traditional approaches, to identify a potential microbial link to Alzheimer’s disease.
Amount: Up to $250,000
Duration: 1 year
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: Oct 30
Sabine Vaccine Institute: Social & Behavioral Research Grants
Description: Supports research to further explore the social and behavioral dynamics of vaccine acceptance within 3 specified tracks (see website).
Amount: Up to $70,000
Duration: up to 18 months
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: Oct 31
Canadian Orthpaedic Foundation: CSES Research Grant
Description: Intended to support and encourage orthopaedic surgeons to conduct collaborative shoulder or elbow research.
Amount: $20,000
Duration: 1-2 years
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: Oct 31
Aniara Diagnostica: Coagulation Research Grant
Description: Supports innovative coagulation and hematology research.
Amount: $10,000
Duration: 1 year
Eligibility: Postdoc or Faculty
Deadline: Nov 1
Parkinson's Foundation: Postdoctoral Fellowships for Basic Scientists and Clinical Neurologists
Description: Supports young sciensists directly impacting the understanding of Parkinson’s disease or its treatment, or young clinicians who have completed their neurology residency and are seeking clinical research experience.
Amount: Up to $140,000
Duration: 2 years
Eligibility: Postdocs/Fellows
Deadline: Nov 1 (LOI)
Parkinson's Foundation: Launch Awards
Description: Enables outstanding postdoctoral researchers to complete needed mentored training and transition promptly to independent research careers in the Parkinson’s disease field.
Amount: $400,000
Duration: 4 years
Eligibility: Postdoc
Deadline: Nov 1 (LOI)
Parkinson's Foundation: Impact Awards
Description: Supports "outside the box” projects to bring new light to the biology of Parkinson’s, a new approach to Parkinson’s research, or testing a truly novel therapeutic idea.
Amount: Up to $150,000
Duration: Up to 18 months
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: Nov 4 (LOI)
UBC Research and International: Collaborative Research Mobility Awards
Description: Designed to facilitate collaboration on timely research opportunities between UBC researchers in Vancouver and the Okanagan.
Amount: Up to $5,000
Duration: 1 year
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: Nov 4
France Canada Research Fund: New Research Collaboration Program
Description: Supports research and student mobility between France and Canada.
Amount: Up to $15,000
Duration: 1 year
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: Nov 18
Note: The FCRF requires that all universities pre-select a maximum of 5 proposals. To be considered for UBC’s internal selection, researchers must email their applications directly to the French Embassy in Ottawa (assistant.science@ambafrance-ca.org) and to UBC’s FCRF correspondent, Heather Frost (heather.frost@ubc.ca) by November 18, 2022. Applications should be submitted as a single PDF. UBC will conduct an internal pre-selection to to identify a maximum of 5 proposals to send to the Embassy for evaluation December 19th, 2023.
Call for Nominations
Killam Accelerator Research Fellowship
The Faculty of Medicine has launched an internal selection process to nominate up to 2 candidates for the Killam Accelerator Research Fellowship, offered by the UBC VP Research and International office. The award includes a one-time research allowance of $50,000, and the successful recipient's academic unit will receive $60,000 over 2 years to help offset teaching load. | Internal nomination deadline: Oct 24
Events
Event: BC Children's Hospital Research Institute PITCH Seminar Series NEW
Description: Speaker Kevin Tsai, Postdoctoral Fellow, Vallance Lab, presenting Highly sensitive, flow cytometry-based measurement of intestinal permeability in models of experimental colitis
Date & Time: Oct 12; 9am
Location: Online via Zoom, and in person at BCCHR Rm 2108
Meeting ID: 686 2380 3502
Passcode: 232475
Event: VPRI Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters Information Session NEW
Description: This info session will go over the GCRC funding opportunity and application process in detail.
Date & Time: Oct 13 or 17; 10-11:30am
Location: Online via Zoom
Register: Please register here.
Event: 2022 UBC & OU Virtual Symposium on Infectious Diseases and Drug Development
Description: This event will be hosted in partnership between the Faculty of Medicine, UBC and Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research (CiDER), Osaka University (OU). Featured speakers include:
- Dr. Yoshiharu Matsuura (OU)
- Dr. Masaharu Iwasaki (OU)
- Dr. Tokiko Watanabe (OU)
- Dr. Sho Yamasaki (OU)
- Dr. Poul Sorensen (UBC)
- Dr. Natalie Strynadka (UBC)
- Dr. Deborah Money (UBC)
- Dr. Manish Sadarangani (UBC)
- Dr. David Patrick (UBC)
Date & Time: Oct 13; 4:30-7:30pm (Vancouver time)
Date & Time: Oct 14; 8:30-11:30am (Osaka time)
Location: Online via Zoom
Note: Please register here by Oct 11
Event: Vancouver Gairdner National Symposium
Description: The Vancouver Gairdner High School & National Symposium is held each fall to give students, teachers, and the academic community the opportunity to hear from two Gairdner award-winning scientists and learn about the BC Children’s Hospital’s research facilities. Hosted by Drs. Michael Hayden & Bruce Verchere, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics. Featuring presentations by Dr. Katalin Kariko and Dr. Stuart Orkin, recipients of the Canada Gairdner International Award 2022.
Date & Time: Oct 24; 2:15-4pm
Location: Online via Zoom, and in person at Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health (CBH 101 LT), 2115 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver
Meeting ID: 979 1749 3963
Password: 493963
Other
UBC Micro-certificate in Regulatory Affairs in the Life Sciences
With financial support from the BC Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Training, the UBC Academy of Translational Medicine (ATM) has partnered with UBC Extended Learning to offer the UBC Micro-certificate in Regulatory Affairs for the Life Sciences. This program consists of two five-week part-time courses, which will run back-to-back September to November 2022, that can be taken separately or stacked into a UBC Micro-certificate.
British Columbia has the fastest growing life sciences sector in Canada, and regulatory expertise is vital to the continued growth of the sector. This new micro-certificate is tailored to the unique bio-innovation landscape of BC and will equip learners with highly sought-after skills critical for the life sciences, biotechnology, biomanufacturing, medical device and pharmaceutical industries.
The first course, Introduction to Regulatory Affairs, provides an overview of the Canadian and global regulatory affairs landscape and its major stakeholders, and covers basic tools for evaluation safety and efficacy, regulatory requirements for clinical trials, and regulatory process pathways for medical devices. The second course, Regulatory Sciences and Health Economics, explores the emerging discipline of regulatory science, including real-word evidence, adaptive clinical trial design, patent law, health economics, post-market surveillance and regulatory reform. The two courses are five weeks each, with an average weekly commitment of 5−7 hours.
This online program combines self-paced independent study, weekly facilitated online sessions, and on-campus workshops that includes real-world UBC case studies. A remote virtual option is available for the workshops.
Spaces are limited, and are first-come, first-served. A limited number of financial subsidies are available to UBC Faculty of Medicine students, trainees and faculty members, as well as under-served learners.
Find out more and register here!
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