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Please send your research grant applications requiring faculty approval to fom.grantapprovals@ubc.ca.
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

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

Weston Family Foundation: Brain Health: Sleep 2023 Program NEW
Description: seeks to reduce the risk and/or slow the progression of neurodegenerative diseases of aging by accelerating the development of healthy lifestyle approaches relating to sleep.
Amount: up to $1,200,000
Duration: 3 years
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: July 11 (LOI)

Glaucoma Research Foundation: Shaffer Grants NEW
Description: Awarded to scientists and clinicians to fund projects that support new high-impact clinical, epidemiological and laboratory research based on our strategic research goals.
Amount: $55,000
Duration: 1 year
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: July 15 (proposals)

National Multiple Sclerosis Society: Mentor-Based Postdoctoral Fellowship in Rehabilitation Research NEW
Description: The mentor and fellow may come from a variety of different fields including medicine, physical, occupational, or speech therapy, psychology, rehabilitation engineering, nursing, or other fields. The research training may focus on fundamental as well as applied studies but must be relevant to rehabilitation of individuals with MS.
Amount: see RFP
Duration: see RFP
Eligibility: Postdoctoral fellows
Deadline: July 26 (pre-application), August 2 (full application)

National Multiple Sclerosis Society: Research Grants NEW
Description: support investigator-initiated proposals for research focused on addressing research questions highlighted in the Pathways to MS Cures Roadmap, which includes: stopping MS disease activity, restoring function by reversing damage and symptoms and ending MS by preventing new cases.
Amount: $660,000
Duration: up to 3 years
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: July 26 (pre-application), August 2 (full application)

Cure JM Research Grant NEW
Description: The mission of Cure JM is to find better treatments and a cure for juvenile myositis and improve the lives of families affected by it.
Amount: $75,000 USD/year
Duration: up to 2 years
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: July 30

National Eczema Association: Childhood Eczema Challenge Grant NEW
Description: Through this grant NEA and PeDRA intend to accelerate research that improves the health and quality of life of pediatric eczema patients and their families.
Amount: $50,000 USD
Duration: 1 year
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: July 31

CAAIF/CIHR-III: Food Allergy Research Grant NEW
Description: Objective to fund a research grant focused on the area of food allergy research.
Amount: $100,000
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: September 6

CIHR: Team Grant: Strengthening the Health Workforce for System Transformation NEW
Description: To support research that strengthens the health workforce, which is an essential component of advancing the Quadruple Aim and health equity for health system transformation.
Amount: $250,000/year
Duration: 3 years
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: October 5 (registration), November 9 (application)

Call for Nominations

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

Betty Havens Prize NEW

The CIHR Institute of Aging (IA) Betty Havens Prize for Knowledge Mobilization in Aging recognizes an individual, team or organization that has advanced the mobilization of research in aging at a local or regional level. This prize is based on nominations of applicants by peers, teams or organizations. | Deadline: July 11

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

All Souls College Visiting Fellowships NEW

Each year All Souls College offers a number of Visiting Fellowships to people who intend to engage in study and research in Oxford and are prepared to participate in the academic life of the College. Visiting Fellows are expected to be resident in Oxford during the tenure of the Fellowship. A Visiting Fellow may be elected for a period of one, two, or three terms within the Oxford academic year. | Deadline: August 18

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. | Deadline: August 31

Events

Event: CIHR Strengthening the Health Workforce for System Transformation grant - information webinar for applicants NEW
Description: To inform the implementation, evaluation and/or spread/scale (share) of an evidence-informed workforce solution(s) that addresses system level challenges (e.g., system organization, governance, accountability, remuneration, capacity building) that align with one or more of the themes identified in the CAHS Assessment on Health Human Resources to advance the Quadruple Aim and health equity.
Date & Time: June 27; 4:00 - 5:00pm (PST)
Location: Online
Website: https://cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/45096.html

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