Celebrating excellence across our Faculty
Each year, the Faculty of Medicine recognizes outstanding faculty members whose contributions to education, research and/or service have made a lasting impact. The 2025 Distinguished Achievement Awards honour individuals who demonstrate commitment to our values and shared vision of transforming health for everyone.

Research Funding Opportunities

FoM Graduate & Postdoctoral Education Awards
- Roman M. Babicki Fellowship in Medical Research
- Elizabeth C. Watters Research Fellowship
- Laurel L. Watters Research Fellowship
- Deadline: June 27
CIHR Health System Impact Fellowship
- Eligibility: Postdoctoral fellows and PhD students
- Deadline: July 3
American Brain Foundation Cure One, Cure Many Award in Lewy Body Dementia NEW
- Eligibility: Faculty
- Deadline: July 25 (pre-proposals); September 30 (full application)
Burroughs Wellcome Fund Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants NEW
- Eligibility: Faculty
- Deadline: July 24
American Association for Cancer Research-Hope Scarves Metastatic Breast Cancer Innovation and Discovery Grant NEW
- Eligibility: Faculty
- Deadline: July 24

Call for Nominations

Gairdner Canada Early Career Investigator Competition
- Deadline: July 11
Peter Gilgan Canada Gairdner Momentum Award
- Deadline: July 15
Schmidt Science Polymaths NEW
- Deadline: July 15 (internal UBC deadline)
CIHR Leadership Award for Excellence in Vaccine Research for Infectious Diseases of Epidemic Potential NEW
- Deadline: July 16
UBC Distinguished University Scholar - Faculty of Medicine Internal Selection
- Deadline: July 23
Holland Bloorview Pursuit Awards NEW
- Deadline: August 29 (PhD students, postdocs and recent graduates are eligible)

Events

BC Children's Hospital Research Institute PITCH Seminar Series NEW
Description: The guest speaker Dr. Austin Miller, PhD Graduate, Mukherjee Lab, University of California, Santa Barbara, presenting Establishing Aquaporin-1 as a Safe and Effective Metal-free MRI Reporter Protein.
Date & Time: June 25; 9:30–10:30am
Location: Zoom, and BCCHR Room 3113
Meeting ID: 689 5564 9564
Passcode: 467779

Faculty/Resident Development Initiatives Grant (FRDIG) Information SessionsDate: July 16, 2025
Time: 12:00-1:00pm
Location: Virtual
Who can attend: faculty or residents in the health or medical education programs at UBC

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CIHR Project Grant Fall 2025 NEW
The SPARC Office is offering consultations for faculty members looking to submit applications for the upcoming CIHR Project Grant competition. We anticipate ResearchNet to be updated with new competition guidelines and timelines in July. For more information on the available SPARC support, please visit: https://sparc.ubc.ca/cihr-programs/cihr-project-grant

Engage in reconcili-ACTION: host an Indigenous student this summer!
seed2STEM is a unique summer research program for Indigenous high school students created as a way to address underrepresentation of Indigenous people in STEM fields, and encourage Indigenous youth to consider STEM education and careers. The program offers paid 6-week internships with wraparound supports.

Host supervisors are needed for this summer (July 7 to August 15), if interested, please contact summer@icord.org or check out the supervisor information page.

Call for early career researchers to be featured in faculty & staff spotlight

We're accepting nominations of early career researchers to be featured in the Faculty & Staff Spotlight on MedNet, including postdoctoral fellows, research staff and early career faculty. If you'd like to nominate someone, please email us at medresearch.admin@ubc.ca.

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