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Alert
- UBC Faculty of Medicine launched an internal call for nominations for Distinguished University Scholar program. Please visit the award page for details. NEW
- UBC Faculty of Medicine launched the New Faculty Research Award. Please visit the award page for details.
- UBC SPARC is currently offering support for:
- CIHR Catalyst and Operating grants on HIV/AIDs and STBBI. Please see their website for details.
- CIHR Operating grants for brain health, brain aging, and dementia. Please see their website for details.
- UBC ORPA is currently offering support for nominations for the Canada Gairdner Momentum Award. Please see their website for details. NEW
Research Funding Opportunities
Michael Smith Health Research BC: Convening & Collaborating (C2)
Description: Program supports teams of health researchers and research users to co-develop research that can have direct impacts on people, including patients, health practitioners and policy makers.
Amount: $15,000
Duration: 18 months
Eligibility: Faculty, see website
Deadline: May 15
Michael Smith Health Research BC: Reach
Description: Program supports teams of health researchers and research users to disseminate research evidence with those who can directly benefit from it in order to impact health and care in BC.
Amount: Up to $15,000
Duration: 18 months
Eligibility: Faculty, see website
Deadline: May 15
Eisner Foundation: The Eisner Prize Fellowships NEW
Description: Program is open to anyone working to innovate in the area of intergenerational connection – whether that be through research, programs, technology, or other efforts advancing the field.
Amount: $50,000
Duration: 12 months
Eligibility: Students, Postdocs, see website
Deadline: May 31
UBC-TEBO: Open Call for Research Proposals NEW
Description: This partnership will provide an opportunity for UBC researchers to undertake novel research projects and integrate technology development and transfer into regional and international infrastructure initiatives.
Amount: up to $2 million across all funded project (see website)
Duration: 1-2 years or 3-5 years (see website for stream details)
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: May 31 (LOI); July 7 (full application)
Internaional Myeloma Foundation and Pfizer: Approaches to Increase Equitable Access to and Delivery of Quality of Care with Bispecific Antibodies for Patients with Multiple Myeloma NEW
Description: To support Quality Improvement (QI) projects that will advance the quality of care and best practices around treatment for patients with relapse/refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM) receiving treatment with a bispecific antibody (BsAb).
Amount: up to $250,000
Duration: up to 2 years
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: June 1
One Mind: Rising Star Awards NEW
Description: This year, One Mind is offering three Rising Star Awards to advance rigorous, evidence-based scientific research with great potential to benefit people living with psychiatric disorders.
Amount: $300,000
Duration: 3 years
Eligibility: Faculty (see website for details)
Deadline: June 1
Digital Research Alliance of Canada: Call for Applications and Nominations for the Research Council NEW
Description: This is a unique opportunity for researchers from across Canada to make a valuable impact on the way the digital research infrastructure (DRI) ecosystem supports Canadian researchers.
Duration: Up to 3 years
Eligibility: Researchers
Deadline: June 5
Eppendorf: Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology NEW
Description: Awarded annually to one young scientist who is not older than 35 years for the most outstanding neurobiological research based on methods of molecular and cell biology conducted by them during the past three years.
Amount: $25,000 (USD)
Eligibility: Neurobiology researchers (see website)
Deadline: June 15
UBC Faculty of Medicine: New Faculty Research Award
Description: The New Faculty Research Award is for faculty members in the first two years of their first full-time faculty appointment as Assistant Professor and higher, or a Clinical faculty appointment as Clinical Assistant Professor and higher in the UBC Faculty of Medicine. The funds may be used for research equipment, research supplies and/or research services, and research support salaries.
Amount: Up to $10,000
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: June 26
UBC Faculty of Medicine: Internal Call for Nominations for the Distinguished University Scholar program NEW
Description: This program recognizes exceptional members of faculty who have distinguished themselves as scholars in research and/or teaching and learning, or who have the potential to demonstrate such leadership.
Amount: $120,000
Duration: 5 years
Eligibility: full-time tenured faculty members in both research and educational leadership streams
Deadline: June 29
Call for Nominations
VinFuture Prize
The VinFuture Prize is set up to honor breakthrough scientific research and technological innovations that create meaningful change in the everyday lives of millions of people. The Prize aims to recognize exceptional inventors and researchers from global academic universities, research labs, and industry.
A Grand Prize of US$ 3 million, awarded annually for breakthrough research and technological innovations that positively improve the quality of human life, and create a more equitable and sustainable world for future generations. | Deadline: May 15
Killam Prizes
Administered by the National Research Council of Canada, the Killam Prizes are intended to honour distinguished Canadian scholars who have been engaged in research in universities, hospitals, research or scientific institutes, or other similar institutions.
Normally, one prize is awarded each year in each of five disciplines. They are awarded annually, on a competitive basis, for research done in any of the following disciplines: humanities; social sciences; natural sciences; health sciences; engineering. | Deadline: June 2
Canadian Medical Hall of Fame
The Canadian Medical Hall of Fame laureate nominees are Canadian citizens who are role models for Canadians for their work in furthering health in Canada and the world or are nominated for an achievement developed significantly during a period of residency in Canada.
They are living or posthumous and their outstanding contributions to medicine and the health sciences have led to extraordinary improvements in human health. | Deadline: June 12
NRC Dorothy Killam Fellowships
The Dorothy Killam Fellowships support scholars who demonstrate commitment to building Canada's future and alignment with Killam attributes (inclusive collaborator, barrier breaker, researcher leader). Eight prizes available for mid-career researchers in all fields. | Deadline: June 16
BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award
The awards to recognize and encourage world-class research and artistic creation, prizing contributions of broad impact for their originality and theoretical significance. The name of the scheme is intended to encapsulate both research work that successfully enlarges the scope of our current knowledge – pushing forward the frontiers of the known world – and the meeting and overlap of different disciplinary areas. | Deadline: June 30
Canada Gairdner Momentum Award
The Canada Gairdner Momentum Award annually recognizes 2 mid-career investigators (typically 10-15 years past their first independent research appointment) working in Canada who in their last 6 active years have produced exceptional scientific research contributions with continued potential for impact on human health. The Gairdner Foundation welcomes submissions from all areas of health research including but not limited to discovery, clinical, global health, and population science and translational research. | Deadline: July 15
Royal-Mach-Gaensslen Prize for Mental Health Research
The prestigious Royal-Mach-Gaensslen Prize for Mental Health Research is awarded each year to an outstanding rising star researcher in the field of mental health, to recognize, encourage and support them as they pursue their research interests and goals.
The annual national prize provides $100,000 in funding to Canadian early-career researchers (45 years or younger) with a demonstrated track record in research; excellence in scientific rigor, innovative thinking, imagination and originality; and a clear ability to work in partnership with other disciplines and/or research teams external to the institution with which they are affiliated. | Deadline: July 15
Events
Event: BC Children's Hospital Research Institute PITCH Seminar Series NEW
Description: Guest speaker Dr. Deanna Santer, Assistant Professor, and GSK Chair in Immunology of Infectious Diseases, Department of Immunology, University of Manitoba, presenting Type III interferons: looking beyond their antiviral role in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease.
Date & Time: May 10; 9:30am
Location: Online via Zoom, and in person at BCCHR Seminar Room 3113
Meeting ID: 686 2380 3502
Passcode: 232475
Event: UBC-TEBO Open Call for Proposals Information Session NEW
Description: To provide potential applicants with an overview of the competition and address any questions. The TEBO leadership team will present their vision, business focus, and R&D priorities.
Date & Time: May 11; 10:00am
Location: Online and in person
Website: https://research.ubc.ca/cwl/tebo-open-call-event-registration
Event: Killam Accelerator Research Fellowship (KARF) Lectures
Description: Lectures by inaugural cohort of KARF recipients, funded in 2020, covering a diverse range of areas: from biblical studies to software engineering; from molecular construction to computer vision; and from forest restoration to understanding the role of chronic inflammation in health conditions and aging.
Date & Time: May 15, 2:30pm
Location: Coach House, Green College, 6201 Cecil Green Park Rd
Website: https://prizes.research.ubc.ca/events/accelerating-discovery-killam-accelerator-research-fellowship-lectures
Event: UBC SPARC Fundamentals Workshop: Part 1 (CIHR Strategic Grants Overview)
Description: The goal of the Fundamentals workshop series is to better prepare UBC faculty researchers in applying to CIHR Strategic competitions (e.g., Catalyst, Operating, Team Grants). Part 1 of this series will be an overview of this portfolio as well as SPARC support services. Those new to CIHR (e.g., early career researchers, new to Canada) are highly encouraged to attend.
Date & Time: May 25, 10:00am
Location: Online via Zoom
Website: https://sparc.ubc.ca/announcement/fundamentals-workshop-part-1-cihr-strategic-grants-overview
Event: UBCO Diabetes & Obesity Research Day 2023
Description: The annual event to showcase the research excellence of the post doctoral fellows and graduate students. This trainee-led research day began in 2018 with the aim to bring researchers from across British Columbia together to share their latest discoveries in the field of diabetes and obesity research.
Date & Time: June 7, 9:00am
Location: Kelowna, BC (registration required)
Website: https://diabetesbc.ca/our-events/ubc-okanagan-diabetes-and-obesity-research-day-2023/
Event: Career Day 2023 NEW
Description: This annual event provides research trainees in the Faculty of Medicine with the opportunity to connect and network with professionals working in a variety of different careers. Presented in partnership with BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, UBC Faculty of Medicine, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, Providence Health Care Research Institute, Centre for Blood Research, and Centre for Heart Lung Innovation (St Paul’s Hospital).
Date & Time: June; 1:30pm
Location: Online and in person (BCCHRI 938 W 28th Ave, Vancouver) (registration required)
Website: https://bcchr.ca/career-day
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