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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.
- UBC Faculty of Medicine launched the New Faculty Research Award. Please visit the award page for details.
Research Funding Opportunities
Craig H. Neilson Foundation: SCI Research on the Translational Spectrum grants NEW
Description: Advances novel approaches to improving function and developing curative therapies after SCI. This research is designed to improve understanding and advance the treatment of acute and chronic SCI and includes mechanistic, preclinical, translational and/or clinical studies.
Amount: up to $200,000USD (Postdoc Fellowship); up to $400,000USD (Pilot research grant); up to $800,000USD (Senior research grant)
Duration: up to 2 years (Postdoc Fellowship and Pilot research grant); up to 3 years (Senior research grant)
Eligibility: Postdoctoral fellows and faculty
Deadline: June 9 (LOI), November 10 (full application)
AACR-Lung Cancer: Stimulating Therapeutic Advances through Research Training (START) Grant NEW
Description: Provide support to postdoctoral or clinical research fellows from underrepresented groups (please see eligibility criteria), combine research experiences in both academic and industry settings, following a research timeline that will be of greatest benefit to the proposed work.
Amount: $225,000 USD
Duration: 3 years
Eligibility: Postdoctoral fellows
Deadline: June 21
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
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
National Institute for Health Care Management: Research Grants NEW
Description: Supports innovative investigator-initiated research with high potential to inform improvements to the U.S. health care system. Projects must advance the existing knowledge base in the areas of health care financing, delivery, management and/or policy.
Amount: see RFP for details
Duration: see RFP for details
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: June 30 (LOI)
NASPGHAN Foundation/Alcresta: Research Award for the Study of Paediatric Pancreatic Disease and Malabsorption for Fellows and Junior Faculty NEW
Description: Relevant conditions and areas of interest include but are not limited to: acute or chronic pancreatitis; exocrine pancreatic insufficiency; pancreatic-related fat malabsorption; quality improvement of patient outcomes in areas related to pediatric pancreatic disease or malabsorption; pancreatic acinar cell disorders; short bowel syndrome and intestinal failure associated with malabsorption.
Amount: $75,000
Duration: 1 year
Eligibility: Postdoctoral fellows and ECRs
Deadline: July 1
Paralyzed Veterans of America: Research Grants and Fellowships NEW
Description: From transplanting cells and regenerating damaged nerve fibres to designing adaptive canoe seats, the Paralyzed Veterans of America Research Foundation supports innovative research fellowships that improve the lives of those with spinal cord injury and disease (SCI/D).
Amount: up to $200,000 USD
Duration: up to 3 years
Eligibility: Postdoctoral fellows and faculty
Deadline: July 5
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation: 2023 Path to a Cure (PTAC) - Collaborative Research Grant NEW
Description: Intended to facilitate research that will contribute to the development of new therapies or therapeutic strategies to treat CF, with an emphasis on advancing CFTR gene repair and replacement approaches. Collaborations that bring new investigators and technologies into the CF research communities will be given highest priority.
Amount: up to $1,000,000 USD
Duration: up to 3 years
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: July 13
MSHRBC & CANTRAIN: MSc, PhD Studentships NEW
Description: Support masters and doctoral student applicants conducting research related to clinical trials.
Amount: up to $17,500 (MSc), up to $35,000 (PhD)
Duration: 1 year
Eligibility: Masters and doctoral students
Deadline: July 15
MSHRBC & CANTRAIN: Postdoctoral Fellowships NEW
Description: Support postdoctoral fellow applicants conducting research related to clinical trials.
Amount: up to $42,500
Duration: 1 year
Eligibility: Postdoctoral fellows
Deadline: July 15
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation: 2023 Biological Basis for Cystic Fibrosis Related Diabetes Program NEW
Description: Intended to solicit and fund projects that will improve our understanding of the biological basis for the development and progression of CFRD as well as to identify potential novel therapeutic strategies to manage and treat the disease.
Amount: up to $150,000 USD/year
Duration: up to 3 years
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: July 19
TRANSCAN-3: Joint Transnational Call for Proposals (JTC 2023) “Translational research on cancer epigenetic” NEW
Description: Research projects submitted within this call should be based on novel ideas stemming from consolidated previous results and will be endowed with a strong translational research orientation. Project proposals should also clearly demonstrate their potential health impact as well as added value of transnational collaboration.
Amount: see RFP for details
Duration: see RFP for details
Eligibility: Faculty, see RFP for details
Deadline: July 21 (pre-proposal); December 15 (full proposal)
The Canadian Orthopaedic Foundation: J. Edouard Samson Award NEW
Description: recognizes the best career orthopaedic research over a period of five years or more at a Canadian centre.
Amount: $30,000
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: August 18
Call for Nominations
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
UBC ORPA is currently offering support for nominations for the Canada Gairdner Momentum Award. Please see their website for details.
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: 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
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 7; 1:30pm
Location: Online and in person (BCCHRI 938 W 28th Ave, Vancouver) (registration required)
Website: https://bcchr.ca/career-day
Event: Hearing Indigenous Voices During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Description: UBC Health presents this Health After 2020 dialogue session that will highlight the experiences and triumphs of Indigenous peoples around the world. The session will be an opportunity to discuss lessons learned about conducting research and Indigenous resilience during the pandemic with researchers based in Canada, the United States, and New Zealand.
Date & Time: June 8; 9:00am - 3:00pm
Location: Online and in person (Robert H. Lee Alumni Center, Vancouver)
Website: https://bit.ly/ha2020_indigenous
Event: Engaging with the Horizon Europe Program NEW
Description: Following the announcement that the Government of Canada will begin formal negotiations to expand collaboration among Canadian and European research and innovation partners under the Horizon Europe program, the UBC Office of the Vice Provost International is please to invite members of the UBC research community to a Horizon Europe information session.
Date & Time: June 15; 12:00 - 1:30pm
Location: Online and in person (Old Administration Building, Room 210, Vancouver)
Website: https://global.ubc.ca/news-events/news/may-26-2023-engaging-horizon-europe-program-information-session-networking-session
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