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Research Funding Opportunities
Parkinson's Foundation: Impact Awards NEW
Description: Designed for researchers both established and new to the field of PD. Projects should be "outside the box" with the goal of bringing new light to the biology of Parkinson's, a new approach to Parkinson’s research, or testing a truly novel therapeutic idea. Projects should be based on unconventional ideas that are unlikely to be funded through more traditional funding mechanisms.
Amount: $150,000
Duration: 12-18 months
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: October 27 (LOI); February 22 (application)
UBC Office of Vice-President Research & Innovation: UBC Vancouver-Okanagan Collaborative Research Mobility Awards (CRMA)
Description: Designed to support research collaboration across UBC in Vancouver and the Okanagan by providing funding to: initiate new, or strengthen existing research collaborations; enable travel to access unique infrastructure/core facilities at each location or to hold research meetings; support travel, per diems, and accommodations for UBC researchers.
Amount: $100,000
Duration: 1 year
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: November 3
Digital Research Alliance of Canada: Research Allocation Competition NEW
Description: This competition provides researchers the opportunity to apply for compute, storage, and cloud resources beyond what is normally granted by a default allocation.
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: November 7
TANGO2 Research Foundation: T2RF Research Grants NEW
Description: The TANGO2 Research Foundation (T2RF) research grants provides essential funding for seed or pilot research projects, fostering the exploration of groundbreaking research concepts. These awards support initial testing phases, allowing researchers to embark on smaller-scale endeavors. The emphasis lies in evaluating feasibility and refining methodologies, shaping the trajectory of potential larger-scale studies. Through this funding mechanism, we empower researchers to take innovative ideas from conception to a vital stage of validation, contributing to the advancement of knowledge and discovery.
Amount: up to $25,000 (USD) for single institution & up to $50,000 for multi-institution
Duration: 1 year
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: November 9 (LOI), March 1 (full proposal)
UBC Health: Health After 2020 Call for Proposals
Description: Supports innovation in knowledge translation, providing funding to teams to support research collaborations and capacity building in knowledge translation. Researchers at UBCV and UBCO are invited to submit a proposal for projects that utilize creative and innovative knowledge translation methods.
Amount: $10,000
Duration: 12 months
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: November 15
Fulbright Canada: Research Chairs NEW
Description: Fulbright Canada Research Chairs are pre-arranged affiliations that allow scholars to conduct research/lecture on subjects important to that university. Partner universities are excited to welcome the Fulbright Canada Research Chairs into campus life and encourage them to engage with students, faculty, and the broader community. Fulbright Canada Research Chairs can guest lecture in university courses, mentor students, lecture in public venues, network, and promote their research, while representing the Fulbright program, and their home and host institutions.
Amount: $25,000 - $50,000 (USD)
Duration: 4 - 9 months
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: November 15
Fulbright Canada: Scholar Program NEW
Description: The Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program operates on the principle of reciprocal exchange and provides the opportunity for outstanding Canadian scholars to lecture and/or conduct research in the United States. Award recipients include prominent and promising scholars, as well as experienced professionals.
Amount: $12,500 - $50,000 (USD)
Duration: 4 - 8 months
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: November 15
France Canada Research Fund (FCRF): New Research Collaboration Program
Description: promotes partnerships between researchers in Canada and France, open to every field of expertise and promotes interdisciplinary projects. The program provides funding for new scientific projects jointly developed by French and Canadian teams that have never worked together before. To be considered for UBC’s internal selection, researchers must email their applications directly to UBC’s FCRF correspondent, Heather Frost (heather.frost@ubc.ca), as a single PDF.
Amount: up to $15,000
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: November 17 (internal UBC deadline)
Muscular Dystrophy Canada: Annual Neuromuscular Research Grants NEW
Description: Supports clinical and translational research projects related to the diagnosis, treatment, or clinical care of neuromuscular disorders.
Amount: up to $100,000
Duration: 2 years
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: November 17
New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF): Exploration
Description: NFRF's Exploration Stream seeks to inspire innovative projects not easily supported through funding opportunities currently offered by the Tri-Agencies.
Amount: up to $250,000
Duration: 2 years
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: December 4 (FoM internal application)
Burroughs Wellcome Fund: Next Gen Pregnancy Initiative NEW
Description: The initiative is designed to stimulate both creative individual scientists and multi-investigator teams to approach healthy and adverse pregnancy outcomes using creative basic and translation science methods. The formation of new connections between reproductive scientists and investigators who are involved in other areas is particularly encouraged.
Amount: up to $500,000
Duration: 4 years
Eligibility: Faculty and postdocs
Deadline: December 5
American Gastroenterological Association: Research Scholar Award NEW
Description: Supports early-career investigators working toward independent and productive research careers in digestive diseases by ensuring that a major proportion of their time is protected for research.
Amount: $300,000
Duration: 3 years
Eligibility: Early career Faculty
Deadline: December 5
UBC & SFU: Implementation Science Institute
Description: The implementation science (IS) institute is a two-year training program targeted towards early to mid-career health researchers (from wide range of health-related topics and disciplines in psychology, urban planning, gerontology, biomedical engineering, health geography, health education and promotion, etc) who are interested in or embarking on projects that encompass the science of implementation.
Eligibility: Faculty
Duration: 2 years
Deadline: December 15
Ministry of Health & UBC Health: Research Seed Grant Program
Description: Funding offered to researchers from UBCV and UBCO to address specific research question identified by the Ministry of Health.
Amount: up to $50,000
Duration: 1 year
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: December 15
UBC Centre for Health Education Scholarship: Master of Health Professions Education (MHPE) Canada & Clinical Educator Fellowship Program NEW
Description: The MHPE is a two-year, part-time, internationally recognized, research degree program that is primarily distance-based with annual, three week courses that are delivered on-site. The Clinical Educator Fellowship Program is designed for those interested in developing an academic career as a Clinical Educator and boasts many education leaders as active alumni.
Amount: varies, refer to each program webpage
Duration: 2 years
Eligibility: Health Professionals and trainees
Deadline: December 15
Call for Nominations
Killam Postdoctoral Fellow Research Prize
Designed to support research collaboration across UBC in Vancouver and the Okanagan by providing funding to: initiate new, or strengthen existing research collaborations; enable travel to access unique infrastructure/core facilities at each location or to hold research meetings; support travel, per diems, and accommodations for UBC researchers.
Two prizes in the amount of $5,000 each will be awarded to full-time Postdoctoral Fellows at UBC in recognition of outstanding research and scholarly contributions while at UBC. All fields of research are included.
Nomination packages must be submitted to us at med.gradpostdoc@ubc.ca by the internal deadline of Thursday, November 2, 2023, at 5:00 PM PST. The Faculty of Medicine will adjudicate the nominations and send two nominees to the G+PS Postdoctoral Fellows Office by December 6, 2023.
Governor General Innovation Awards
The Governor General’s Innovation Awards will be given to individuals, teams and/or organizations whose innovations are truly exceptional, transformative and positive in their impact on the quality of life in Canada. | Internal deadline: November 4
Warren Alpert Foundation Prize NEW
The mission of the Warren Alpert Foundation Prize is to recognize and honor one or more scientists whose scientific achievements have led to the prevention, cure, or treatment of human disorders or for seminal research that holds great promise to change our ability to treat disease. | Nomination deadline: November 8
NSERC: Brockhouse Canada Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering
This prize recognizes outstanding Canadian teams of researchers from different disciplines who have combined their expertise to produce achievements of outstanding international significance in the natural sciences and engineering in the last six years. The prize is accompanied by a team research grant of up to $250,000, which may be used to support the direct costs of university-based research and/or the enhancement of research facilities. | Deadline: November 28
Clinical Trials BC Awards 2024
These awards honour individuals and organizations who have made significant contributions to strengthening the BC clinical trials ecosystem. Award recipients exemplify excellence in leadership, advocacy for clinical trials, and outstanding service and support to advance clinical trials research and improve the health of people across British Columbia.
There are two award opportunities: (1) Leadership & Advocacy Award, and (2) Service & Support Award. | Deadline: December 10
Killam Teaching Prizes 2024 NEW
UBC Killam Teaching Prizes are UBC’s most prestigious teaching awards. The UBC Killam Teaching Prizes recognize excellence in teaching in the medical and science undergraduate programs, residency programs, school and graduate programs within the Faculty of Medicine. The Prizes are awarded annually, and are supported by the UBC Killam Endowment Fund. Nomination form can be accessed here. | FoM internal nomination deadline: February 1, 2024 (12:00pm PST)
King Faisal Prize in Medicine 2024
The King Faisal Prize (KFP) recognizes the outstanding works of individuals and institutions in five major categories: Service to Islam, Islamic Studies, Arabic Language and Literature, Medicine, and Science. Its aim is to benefit Muslims in their present and future, inspire them to participate in all aspects of civilization, as well as enrich human knowledge and develop mankind. KFP laureates are evaluated only based on merit and their works are meticulously examined by specialized selection committees. The strict selection procedure meets international standards, and many of the laureates who have been awarded the prize went on to receive other prestigious prizes, such as the Nobel Prize. | FoM internal nomination deadline: March 15, 2024
Events
Event: UBC Data Science and Health - We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age (Dr. Wendy Wong) NEW
Description: This talk will discuss some of the key themes from We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age, which is a new book published by MIT Press. Human rights are one of the major political innovations of the 20th century. Their emergence after World War II and global uptake promised a new world in which human autonomy, community, dignity, and equality could be protected. Datafication, however, poses some unique challenges for our human rights framework because they are "sticky" and ubiquitous in emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI). The talk focuses on five takeaways from the book that ties AI and data to human rights.
Date & Time: October 31 (12:00 - 1:00pm PST)
Location: Zoom - registration required
Website: https://datascienceandhealth.ubc.ca/events/we-data-human-rights-digital-age
Event: Women in Medicine Workshop
Description: The UBC Department of Medicine Equity Committee is very pleased to present a Women in Medicine evening workshop with Dr. Terri Aldred, on creating a culturally safe environment for Indigenous patients and Indigenous learners in clinical care and teaching settings.
Date & Time: November 6 (6:00 pm – 8:00 pm PST)
Location: Online & in-person (Room DHCC 2267 - Diamond Health Care Centre, 2775 Laurel Street, Vancouver, 2nd Floor) - registration required
Website: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8tYCveeQQRU5otU
Event: UBC ARC Research Computing Bootcamp NEW
Description: This bootcamp aims to introduce researchers to high-performance computing using UBC's ARC Sockeye platform, as well as educate current users on how to use the newly implemented Slurm job scheduler. This year's bootcamp will only be held in-person.
Date & Time: November 7-9
Location: In-person (Michael Smith Labs Room 102) - registration required
Website: https://arc.ubc.ca/2023bootcamp
Event: BC Children's Hospital Research Institute PITCH Seminar Series NEW
Description: Guest speaker Dr. Ghayda Mirzaa, Associate Professor, Pediatrics and Medical Genetics, Centre for Integrative Brain Research, Seattle Children's Hospital, presenting The genetics of pediatric surgical epilepsy disorders: successes, challenges and future avenues.
Date & Time: November 8 (9:30am)
Location: Online via Zoom, and in person at BCCHR Seminar Room 2108
Meeting ID: 686 2380 3502
Passcode: 232475
Event: UBC Data Science and Health - AI in Medicine, Rise of the Machines NEW
Description: Jointly hosted with the UBC Vision Cluster, this year the conference is diving into the fundamental questions of AI in medicine as well as the state-of-the-art applications of AI in medical research. Join the world-leading guest speakers and cluster members to unpack the ethical, legal, and existential implications of AI, and how it can be leveraged to open new horizons in AI-human interactions!
Date & Time: November 14 (12:00 - 5:00pm PST)
Location: Zoom - registration required
Website: https://datascienceandhealth.ubc.ca/events/ubc-data-science-and-health-2023
Event: UBC Supercluster Research Day (Save the Date) NEW
Description: Join us for a stimulating afternoon of virtual Artificial Intelligence research presentations by UBC learners from the Faculty of Medicine and School of Biomedical Engineering, supported by the National Digital Technology Supercluster. This event will also feature a live industry demo by Synthesis Health!
Date & Time: November 23 (12:00 - 2:00pm PST)
Location: Zoom - link will be provided in the coming weeks
Contact: Ashley Moller-Hansen (ashley.mollerhansen@ubc.ca) - if you would like to be added to the mailing list
Website: https://med-fom-faculty.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2023/10/Research-Day_UBC-Supercluster_Nov-23.pdf
Event: MSHRBC Clinical Trials BC Symposium 2023: Approaches for Accessible Clinical Trials
Description: The theme focuses on new approaches, technology, pathways and regulatory initiatives that make clinical trials more accessible for participants, trialists, clinical trial professionals and administrators, communities and other relevant parties.
Date & Time: November 28 (8 am–5 pm)
Location: Online & in-person (Jack Poole Hall – Robert H. Lee UBC Alumni Centre, UBC Vancouver)
Website: https://healthresearchbc.ca/clinical-trials-bc/info-and-resources/clinical-trials-bc-symposium/
Other
LungFIT: Pulmonary Rehab Podcast by Dr. Pat Camp NEW
LungFIT is a podcast dedicated to helping health care professionals seek knowledge, clinical tips, and continuing professional development related to pulmonary rehabilitation & research. Tune in for journal clubs, Q&A sessions and interviews on a variety of topics including how to increase your referral base, developing your professional development plan, and increasing your capacity to critique research articles.
Website: https://lungfit.med.ubc.ca/
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