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Research Funding Opportunities
UBC Faculty of Medicine: Roman M. Babicki Fellowship in Medical Research NEW
Description: to support doctoral candidates as they complete their Ph.D. requirements and undertake cancer research.
Amount: $24,000
Duration: 1 year
Eligibility: Ph.D. students
Deadline: July 26
UBC Faculty of Medicine: Elizabeth C. Watters Research Fellowship NEW
Description: to support a graduate student or medical resident engaged in research into the causes, treatment, and cure of lymphatic cancer.
Amount: $21,950
Duration: 1 year
Eligibility: graduate students and medical residents
Deadline: July 26
UBC Faculty of Medicine: Laurel L. Watters Research Fellowship NEW
Description: to support a graduate student or medical resident engaged in research into the causes, treatment, and cure of breast cancer.
Amount: $21,850
Duration: 1 year
Eligibility: graduate students and medical residents
Deadline: July 26
Cure JM: Research Grants NEW
Description: for advancing research to improve medical treatment and work toward a cure for Juvenile Myositis.
Amount: up to $75,000/year
Duration: up to 2 years
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: July 30
Rheumatology Research Foundation: Career Development Bridge Funding Award: K Supplement NEW
Description: provide limited resources to cover research costs, such as essential laboratory supplies or support staff, which are crucial to the successful transition of junior investigators to independent investigators.
Amount: up to $100,000
Duration: up to 2 years
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: August 1
Lupus Research Alliance: 2025 Global Team Science Award NEW
Description: three-month planning grants to assemble competitive multi-institutional teams to develop and submit full applications.
Amount: up to US$10,000
Duration: up to 3 years
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: August 15 (LOI); March 1, 2025 (application)
American Association for Cancer Research & AstraZeneca: Breast Cancer Research Fellowship for Endocrine Therapy Research NEW
Description: to encourage and support postdoctoral or clinical research fellows to conduct breast cancer research and to establish a successful career path in this field.
Amount: up to $130,000 USD
Duration: up to 2 years
Eligibility: Postdoctoral fellows and clinical research fellows
Deadline: August 15
UBC: Hampton New Faculty Grant NEW
Description: to support the early stages of the research programs of tenure-track Assistant, Associate, and Full Professors hired within the last 24 months
Amount: $15,000
Duration: 2 years
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: September 1
UBC Faculty of Medicine: Precision Health Catalyst Grant
Description: to facilitate collaboration and coordination of PH activities, particularly among faculty members and researchers from UBC-affiliated research institutes.
Amount: up to $50,000
Duration: 1 year
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: September 30
Call for Nominations
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. | Deadline: July 15, 2024
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, 2024
Schmidt Science Polymaths NEW
The Schmidt Science Polymath program aims to encourage the best “polymath” scientists to expand their research portfolios by exploring a substantive disciplinary or methodological shift soon after achieving tenure. The program will offer long-term research support to professors who have recently achieved tenure or an equivalent status (within the past three calendar years) with remarkable track records and highly promising futures. Each professor will be awarded $500,000 per year, paid through their institution, for up to five years to help support a research group through talent, such as three to four students or postdocs, and resources. | UBC internal deadline: July 24, 2024
Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research NEW
The Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research was established in 1971 as an expression of the conviction that educational institutions have an important role to play in the encouragement and development of basic science as it applies to medicine.
Awards are given to scientists for recent discoveries of particular originality and importance to basic medical research. A cash prize and a medallion accompanies each award. | Deadline: August 31, 2024
Sloan Research Fellowships NEW
The Sloan Research Fellowship Program provides two-year, $75,000 fellowships to early career researchers in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions to their field. Candidates must be nominated by a department head or other senior researcher. Departments can nominate more than one candidate, but no more than three. | Deadline: September 15, 2024
Events
UBC Institutional Programs Office 2025 Innovation Fund Information Session NEW
Description: Join us to learn more about the 2025 Innovation Fund competition, including details of UBC's internal processes and support, and how to prepare a competitive application.
Date & Time: July 10; 10:00 – 11:30am PDT
Location: Online via Zoom (registration required)
BC Children's Hospital Research Institute PITCH Seminar Series NEW
Description: Speaker Dr. Leah Gheber, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, presenting Bidirectional Motility of Mitotic Kinesin-5 Motors: Old Dogma, New Insights.
Date & Time: August 22; 10:00 – 11:00am PDT
Location: Online via Zoom, and in person at BCCHR Rm 2108
Meeting ID: 686 2380 3502
Passcode: 232475
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