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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.
Pacific Economic Development Canada (PacifiCan) accepts proposals on a rolling basis, and will be working with VPRI and the Institutional Programs Office (IPO) to discuss potential UBC projects that are in line with PacifiCan's priorities (including: quality jobs, competitive industry clusters, globally successful businesses, and inclusive growth). Please reach out to IPO to learn more. NEW

Research Funding Opportunities

American Association for Cancer Research: AACR-Novocure Cancer Research Grant NEW
Description: to support independent investigators who are currently conducting innovative research focused on Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields; intermediate frequency, low intensity, alternating electric fields that disrupt cell division in cancer cells) as well as to encourage independent investigators to enter the TTFields research field.
Amount: $350,000 (USD)
Duration: 3 years
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: May 30 (LOI); September 6 (application)

UBC-TEBO: Open Call for Research Proposals
Description: This partnership will provide an opportunity for UBC researchers to undertake novel research projects and integrate technology development and transfer into regional and international infrastructure initiatives.
Amount: up to $2 million across all funded project (see website)
Duration: 1-2 years or 3-5 years (see website for stream details)
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: May 31 (LOI); July 7 (application)

American Association for Cancer Research: Victoria's Secret Global Fund for Women's Cancers Career Development Award NEW
Description: to foster innovation in the understanding, prevention, interception, early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of breast and gynecologic cancers with the goal of eliminating cancer health disparities and improving patient outcomes. The research proposed for funding may be in basic, translational, clinical, or population sciences.
Amount: $206,000 (USD)
Duration: 2 years
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: June 7

Simons Foundation: Cross-Species Studies of ASD NEW
Description: to support multi-disciplinary teams of PIs with expertise in both human and animal research to perform coordinated cross-species studies to advance our understanding of ASD-relevant behaviors and their underlying neurobiological mechanisms, with the potential for developing novel biomarkers or interventions.
Amount: $400,000 (USD)
Duration: up to 3 years
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: June 15

American Board of Medical Specialties: ABMS Visiting Scholars Program NEW
Description: Scholars remain at home organizations and work with self-selected mentors during the year-long program. They participate in monthly interactive webinars where they provide research project updates to their peers and a select panel of subject matter experts and alumni who provide guidance, support, and solutions to barriers they may be experiencing in their research work.
Amount: up to $15,000 (USD)
Eligibility: Early career faculty, physicians, fellows and residents
Deadline: June 15

Autism Science Foundation: Suzanne Wright Memorial Research Accelerator Grants NEW
Description: to expand the scope, speed the progress, increase efficiency, or improve the final product dissemination of active autism research grants. This mechanism also allows the creative use of data that has not been analyzed to ask questions relevant to autism research.
Amount: up to $7,500 (USD)
Eligibility: Postdoctoral fellows
Deadline: June 21

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative: Collaborative Pairs Pilot Project Awards NEW
Description: to support pairs of investigators and their teams to explore innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to address critical challenges in the fields of neurodegenerative disease and fundamental neuroscience.
Amount: $200,000 in Phase 1; up to $1.6 million in Phase 2
Duration: 18 months
Eligibility: Faculty
Deadline: June 22 (LOI); September 14 (application)

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

Call for Nominations

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

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

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

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

Events

Event: UBC SPARC Fundamentals Workshop: Part 1 (CIHR Strategic Grants Overview)
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
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/

Event: Career Day 2023
Description: This annual event provides research trainees in the Faculty of Medicine with the opportunity to connect and network with professionals working in a variety of different careers. Presented in partnership with BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, UBC Faculty of Medicine, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, Providence Health Care Research Institute, Centre for Blood Research, and Centre for Heart Lung Innovation (St Paul’s Hospital).
Date & Time: June 7; 1:30pm
Location: Online and in person (BCCHRI 938 W 28th Ave, Vancouver) (registration required)
Website: https://bcchr.ca/career-day

Event: Hearing Indigenous Voices During the Covid-19 Pandemic NEW
Description: UBC Health presents this Health After 2020 dialogue session that will highlight the experiences and triumphs of Indigenous peoples around the world. The session will be an opportunity to discuss lessons learned about conducting research and Indigenous resilience during the pandemic with researchers based in Canada, the United States, and New Zealand.
Date & Time: June 8; 9:00am - 3:00pm
Location: Online and in person (Robert H. Lee Alumni Center, Vancouver)
Website: https://bit.ly/ha2020_indigenous

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