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Alert
- CIHR Fall 2024 Project Grant competition launched; registration deadline: Aug 14
- NFRF Exploration NOI deadline: Aug 26
- CIHR Fall 2024 Project Grant FoM internal signature deadline: Sep 5 NEW
- CIHR 2024 Fellowship Award FoM internal signature deadline: Sep 26 NEW
- The UBC Research Security team is offering two information sessions on navigating research security policies when applying for Fall 2024 CIHR Project Grant (see details in the Events section below) NEW
- SPARC provides strategic support services and resources for UBC faculty researchers submitting to major CIHR programs, including program outreach, project and proposal development, and proposal review.
Research Funding Opportunities
NTU LKC Medicine & UBC Faculty of Medicine: Postdoctoral Exchange Travel Award
Description: UBC Faculty of Medicine has partnered with the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore to build a global coalition to accelerate research in the areas of healthy aging, brain health, and precision oncology.
Duration: 4-6 months
Eligibility: Postdoctoral fellows
Deadline: ongoing, see website
UBC: Hampton New Faculty Grant
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
Genome BC: Sector Innovation Program
Description: to support strategically important genomics research with long-term potential to address the needs and challenges of key sectors in BC’s economy and society.
Amount: up to $500,000
Duration: up to 3 years
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: September 25
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
UBC: Killam Accelerator Research Fellowship NEW
Description: to support exceptional early career researchers (within 15 years of PhD) across all disciplines who have the potential for significant impact in their field of scholarship and are ready to launch the next stage of their career.
Amount: $110,000
Duration: 2 years
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: October 28 (FoM internal deadline)
Canadian Orthopaedic Foundation: CSES Research Grant NEW
Description: to support and encourage orthopaedic surgeons to conduct collaborative shoulder or elbow research.
Amount: up to $20,000
Duration: up to 2 years
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: October 31
UBC: Killam Faculty Research Fellowships NEW
Description: to assist promising faculty members, who wish to devote full time to research and study in their field during a recognized study leave.
Amount: up to $18,000
Duration: up to 1 year
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: November 15
Call for Nominations
Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research
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
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
Canada Gairdner Awards NEW
The Canada Gairdner Awards recognize and celebrate the work of the world’s best biomedical researchers. Over the past 53 years, Gairdner has gained a superb international reputation for its early recognition of medical breakthroughs that have changed the way medicine is practised.. | Deadline: October 1, 2024
Charles A. McDowell Award NEW
The award, consisting of a medal and a certificate, will be made to an outstanding early career member of the faculty of UBC who has demonstrated excellence in pure or applied scientific research. | Deadline: November 15, 2024
Jacob Biely Faculty Research Prize NEW
The prize, comprised of $3,000 and a certificate, is awarded annually to a full-time tenure-stream UBC faculty member in recognition of a distinguished record of research that has contributed substantially to UBC’s stature as a leading research institution. | Deadline: November 15, 2024
Killam Faculty Research Prizes NEW
Established in 1986, ten UBC Killam Research Prizes are awarded annually to top campus researchers with funds provided annually from the Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Fund for Advanced Studies established through a bequest from the late Dorothy J. Killam. The award recognizes outstanding research and scholarly contributions. | Deadline: November 15, 2024
President's Award for Public Education through Media NEW
he award, which includes a $3,000 honorarium and a certificate, recognizes and encourages such contributions, including print, broadcast, and online media interviews and expert commentary, as valuable means to foster greater public dialogue and understanding.| Deadline: November 15, 2024
Events
UBC Health Data Analytics: Opportunities and Application
Description: The UBC Micro-certificate in Health Data Analytics: Opportunities and Applications is a part-time technical program developed by the UBC Department of Medicine and UBC Data Science Institute, in consultation with health sector leaders from government, academia and industry. It provides learners with career development and upskilling opportunities to fill the data literacy gap in our evolving data-driven health sector.
Date & Time: August 13; 12:00pm – 1:00pm PDT
Location: Online via Zoom (registration required)
Stem Cell Network A technical briefing for SCN upcoming funding opportunities NEW
Description: This webinar will provide an overview of SCN’s new national research funding competition, set to officially open on September 3, 2024. Specifically, the webinar will provide an overview of each of the six program awards available, review key dates and deadlines, explain the role of the joint-funding award collaborators, overview the requirements of the applications, and respond to questions from webinar attendees.
Date & Time: August 14; 10:00 – 11:00am PDT
Location: Online via Zoom (registration required)
UBC Research Security Navigating Research Security Policies When Applying for Fall 2024 CIHR Project Grant NEW
Description: This session will provide UBC health researchers with advice for completing a risk assessment form when your application involves a private sector partner and attestation forms for when your project may advance a sensitive technology research area. Two session offered
Date & Time: August 22; 10:00 – 11:00am; and August 27; 1:00 - 2:00pm PDT
Location: Online via Zoom (registration required: August 22 / August 27)
BC Children's Hospital Research Institute PITCH Seminar Series
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
UBC Faculty of Medicine Research 101 Webinar NEW
Description: An online workshop intended for FoM students, faculty, trainees and staff and covers the following topics: research-related resources; funding opportunities, types and sources of funding; guidance through the administrative processes for the submission of funding applications; and, university-wide resources available for graduate and post-doctoral researchers.
Date & Time: August 27; 10:00 – 11:00am PDT
Location: Online via Zoom (registration required, registration deadline August 23)
UBC Faculty of Medicine Graduate Student Welcome Day NEW
Description: The event will feature welcoming messages from UBC and FoM leadership, and information on relevant graduate student resources at FoM and UBC followed by a Q&A session with the current graduate students.
Date & Time: September 4; 11:30am – 1:00pm PDT
Location: Online via Zoom (registration required)
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