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Research Funding Opportunities
UBC Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies: Catalyst Collaboration Fund
Description: Supports either: Catalyst Collaboration Fund Stream 1 – Seed or match funding for transdisciplinary collaborative research projects related to climate and nature emergency; or Catalyst Collaboration Fund Stream 2 – Events focused on scholarly, artistic and research collaborations (e.g. academic roundtables and community engagement events) and knowledge translation and mobilization (e.g. videos, resources, open-access courses, larger public-facing events) related to the climate and nature emergency.
Amount: $10,000
Duration: 1 year
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: Sep 15
National Ataxia Foundation: Early Career Investigator Award
Description: Supports early-career clinical and scientific investigators to pursue a career in the field of ataxia research.
Amount: $50,000
Duration: 1 year
Eligibility: Junior Faculty
Deadline: Sep 28 (LOI)
National Ataxia Foundation: Seed Money Research Grants
Description: Supports new and innovative studies relevant to the cause, pathogenesis, or treatment of the hereditary or sporadic ataxias.
Amount: $50,000
Duration: 1 year
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: Sep 29 (LOI)
Alpha-1 Foundation: Research Grants Program
Description: Supports research with the potential to improve individuals’ health with Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency.
Amount: Up to $200,000
Duration: Up to 2 years
Eligibility: Faculty and postdocs
Deadline: Sep 30 (LOI)
Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation: Program to Accelerate Clinical Trials
Description: Supports IND-enabling studies and early-phase clinical trials that test promising pharmacological interventions and devices for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and related dementias.
Amount: Up to $3 million
Duration: Multi-year
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: Sep 30 (LOI)
Kenneth Rainin Foundation: Innovator Awards Program
Description: Supports basic, translational, and clinical science that could lead to new, transformative discoveries for the prediction and prevention of IBD.
Amount: Up to $300,000
Duration: 1 year
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: Sep 30 (LOI)
Canadian Institutes of Health Research: Catalyst Grant: Policy Research for Health System Transformation
Description: Supports research into evidence-informed policy options and solutions to address the crisis and improve the future of health care in Canada.
Amount: $150,000
Duration: 1 year
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: Oct 4
Foundation Fighting Blindness: Age-Related Macular Degeneration Award
Description: Supports research proposals to understand pathophysiologic mechanisms that cause the transition from aging to early, dry AMD.
Amount: $600,000
Duration: 3 years
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: Oct 4
SATB2 Gene Foundation: 2022 Research Grant Program
Description: Supports research proposals that would create pilot data sufficient to support larger scale grant submissions to other funding sources in the following areas of SAS research: Speech and Language, Behavior, Sleep, and Global Developmetn Delays.
Amount: $30,000
Duration: 1 year
Eligibility: Postdocs, Faculty
Deadline: Oct 10
Sexual Medicine Society of North America: SMSNA Scholars in Sexuality Research
Description: Offers young investigators interested in sexuality research the opportunity to obtain funding to support their research while engaged in qualifying research in sexuality.
Amount: Up to $7,500
Duration: 1 year
Eligibility: Graduate/medical students, Postdocs
Deadline: Oct 10
UBC Health: Health Innovation Funding Investment
Description: Awarded to faculty members who are collaborating across faculties, disciplines, and campuses to develop new teams, pursue new ideas, or translate findings from innovative health-related research.
Amount: $25,000
Duration: 1 year
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: Oct 14
Call for Nominations
Killam Accelerator Research Fellowship
The Faculty of Medicine has launched an internal selection process to nominate up to 2 candidates for the Killam Accelerator Research Fellowship, offered by the UBC VP Research and International office. The award includes a one-time research allowance of $50,000, and the successful recipient's academic unit will receive $60,000 over 2 years to help offset teaching load. | Internal nomination deadline: Oct 24
Events
Event: UBC VPRI Internal Awards information session
Description: The Office of Research Prizes and Awards team will be hosting two online information sessions on VPRI’s Faculty Research Awards.
Date & Time: Sep 29; 11:30am
Location: Online via zoom
Register: Register here by Sep 26
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UBC Micro-certificate in Regulatory Affairs in the Life Sciences
With financial support from the BC Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Training, the UBC Academy of Translational Medicine (ATM) has partnered with UBC Extended Learning to offer the UBC Micro-certificate in Regulatory Affairs for the Life Sciences. This program consists of two five-week part-time courses, which will run back-to-back September to November 2022, that can be taken separately or stacked into a UBC Micro-certificate.
British Columbia has the fastest growing life sciences sector in Canada, and regulatory expertise is vital to the continued growth of the sector. This new micro-certificate is tailored to the unique bio-innovation landscape of BC and will equip learners with highly sought-after skills critical for the life sciences, biotechnology, biomanufacturing, medical device and pharmaceutical industries.
The first course, Introduction to Regulatory Affairs, provides an overview of the Canadian and global regulatory affairs landscape and its major stakeholders, and covers basic tools for evaluation safety and efficacy, regulatory requirements for clinical trials, and regulatory process pathways for medical devices. The second course, Regulatory Sciences and Health Economics, explores the emerging discipline of regulatory science, including real-word evidence, adaptive clinical trial design, patent law, health economics, post-market surveillance and regulatory reform. The two courses are five weeks each, with an average weekly commitment of 5−7 hours.
This online program combines self-paced independent study, weekly facilitated online sessions, and on-campus workshops that includes real-world UBC case studies. A remote virtual option is available for the workshops.
Spaces are limited, and are first-come, first-served. A limited number of financial subsidies are available to UBC Faculty of Medicine students, trainees and faculty members, as well as under-served learners.
Find out more and register here!
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