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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.
Call for abstracts for the UBCO Diabetes & Obesity Research Day, inviting trainees to submit an abstract to deliver an oral presentation or present a scientific poster. Please see their website for details.

Research Funding Opportunities

Crohn's & Colitis Foundation: Senior Research Awards Program NEW
Description: Supports research relevant to Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) or Crohn's disease and/or ulcerative colitis.
Amount: Up to $118,182 per year
Duration: Up to 3 years
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: May 5 (LOI)

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

Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation: Neuroimaging and CSF Biomarker Development Program NEW
Description: The aim of this RFP is to further develop and validate established biomarkers for which there is a clear clinical need in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.
Amount: up to $600,000
Duration: 1 year
Eligibility: Faculty, see website
Deadline: May 19 (LOI)

UBC Faculty of Medicine: New Faculty Research Award NEW
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

Call for Nominations

Awards for Excellence in Cancer Research

The Canadian Cancer Society Awards for Excellence in Cancer Research recognize individuals who have made, and are making, valuable contributions to the cancer research ecosystem in Canada. Recipients are leaders in their fields who exemplify excellence in science and outstanding service to the scientific community. | Deadline: May 1

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 NEW

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 NEW

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 NEW

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 NEW

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
Description: Guest speaker Dr. David Malkin, Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, presenting The Li-Fraumeni Syndrome Landscape: A Window to Cancer Prediction and Prevention.
Date & Time: April 27; 3:30pm
Location: Online via Zoom, and in person at BCCHR Chan Auditorium
Meeting ID: 686 2380 3502
Passcode: 232475

Event: VCHRI Celebrating 20 Years of Research Excellence
Description: 2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute. The event will celebrate the direct impact of health research on patient outcomes, explore the latest health care technology trends, and network with colleagues and make new connections.
Date & Time: May 9; 8:00am - 5:30pm
Location: Paetzold Auditorium, Vancouver General Hospital, 899 W. 12th Ave, Vancouver
Website: https://www.vchri.ca/events/20years

Event: Killam Accelerator Research Fellowship (KARF) Lectures NEW
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 4, 2:30pm; and 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) NEW
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 NEW
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/

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