The goal of this funding opportunity was to enable the realization of opportunities for and specific activities planned to enable development and/or expansion of collaborations between Translational Cancer Genomics (TCG) cluster researchers and other national and international researchers in the field. This funding opportunity is now concluded, and no further awards will be made. Please visit the Program Awardees and Summaries tab below to see the extensive collaborative opportunities realized through this funding.
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Following a notice of award, the program administrator will coordinate fund administration with successful applicants. Award conditions will include:
- Within 4 weeks of the collaborative meeting – a written synopsis of the collaborative meetings, along with plans for further follow-up.
- The fund reserves the right to cancel any award and disallow expense claims where a synopsis has not been provided.
- Within 60 days of the completion of travel – completed expense claim, in compliance with UBC expense claim policy.
- The fund reserves the right to cancel any award and disallow expense claims that are made after 60 days and/or which do not comply with the travel expense policies of both UBC and the trainee’s host institution.
Reports and claims may be required sooner if fiscal year end or other administrative constraints apply. Actual dates for all reports and claims will be specified in the notice of award.
Awards will be paid out as reimbursement of actual expenses for travel, accommodation and other associated costs. Awards are not lump sum and will not be paid out as advances.
01 APRIL-30 JUNE 2017
Jasleen Grewal
Steven Jones
ISMB 2017 conference – networking with named collaborators, exploring development of local/regional group.
Elizabeth Bulaeva
Connie Eaves
ISEH 2017 – while in Europe, student met with collaborators at Paris Sud University on possible joint research work
01 july-30 september 2017
Derek Wong
Stephen Yip
SNO 2017 - after conference, will spend 10 days at lab of collaborator at UCSF studying experimental approaches
Samantha Burugu
Torsten Neilsen
San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium 2017 - meeting with named international collaborators during conference to further existing and future studies
Luolan Li
Martin Hirst
CEEHRC symposium 2017 - meeting with named collaborator during conference
Alvin Qiu
Martin Hirst
2017 CSCI-CITAC scientific meeting. UBC Institutional Representative for CITAC
Lisa Wei
Marco Marra
ASH 2017 - meetings with representatives from named collaborator’s from lab
Rod Docking
Aly Karsan
ASH 2017 - meetings with various conference participants
Alice Zhu
Martin Hirst
CEEHRC symposium 2017 - meeting with named collaborator during conference
Yang Zia
David Huntsman
AACR special conference Ovarian Cancer - meeting with other researchers during the conference
Rashedul Islam
Martin Hirst
CEEHRC symposium 2017 - meeting with named collaborator during conference
01 october-31 decEMBER 2017
Steven Yip
Kim Chi
Cancer Symposium (GU ASCO) – meetings with named collaborators
Daniel Khalaf
Kim Chi
Cancer Symposium (GU ASCO) – meetings with named collaborators
James Hao
Yuzhou Wang
11th Annual Multi-institutional Prostate Cancer Program Retreat – meeting with collaborators
Jean-Michel Lavoie
Daniel Renouf
ASCO-SITC Clinical Immuno-Oncology Symposium – meeting with collaborators
Cassia Warren
Daniel Renouf, David Schaeffer
A Matter of Life or Death: From basic cell death mechanisms to novel cancer treatments (part of part of the EACR conference series)
01 april-30 june 2018
Jamie Yu
Torsten Neilsen
CCTG annual spring meeting - exploring opening new clinical trial
Xinpei Ci
Yuzhuo Wang
ASCO annual meeting - meetings with named collaborators
Eric Zhao
Steven Jones
ASCO annual meeting - meetings with named collaborators
Jennifer Ji
David Huntsman
Canadian Conference on Ovarian Cancer Research - meeting with named collaborators
Matthew Richardson
Intan Schrader
BRCA Symposium 2018 - meeting with named collaborators
Sophie Sneddon
Robert Holt
International Mesothelioma Interest Group - meeting with named collaborators
Jean-Michel Lavoie
Daniel Renouf
2018 Canadian Association of Medical Oncologists Annual meeting and 2018 CCTG spring meeting - meeting with named collaborators
Shaun Jackman
Inanc Birol
RECOMB 2018 - meeting with named collaborator
Raunak Shrestha
Colin Collins
International Mesothelioma Interest Group - meeting with named collaborators
Reka Pataky
Dean Regier
2018 CADTH symposium – meeting with collaborators
Samantha Jones
Steven Jones
2018 European Association for Cancer Research - meetings with named collaborators
Fangwu Wang
Connie Eaves
2018 IUBMB plus visit to collaborator lab
Jake Lever
Steven Jones
Northwest - Natural Language Processing 2018 - meeting with named collaborators
Justin Chu
Inanc Birol
RECOMB 2018 - meeting with named collaborator
Elizabeth Chun
Marco Marra
International Rhabdoid Tumour Meeting 2018 - meeting with named collaborator
Nathalie LeVasseur
Stephen Chia
ASCO annual meeting - meetings with named collaborators