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Discover the latest news from across the VP Research & Innovation portfolio through our aggregated news and events feed below.

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Get a monthly curated summary of research opportunities, funding and deadlines compiled by the service units of the Vice-President, Research and Innovation portfolio. 

VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

UBC Electrical and Computer Engineering associate professor will receive up to US $2.5 Million for interdisciplinary research support.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

Dr. Simon Pimstone wins the Lifetime Achievement award, Dr. Pieter Cullis the Global Impact award and spinoffs Precision Nanosystems and Acuitas Therapeutics also recognized.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

Appointees include Drs. Paul Dubord, Donald Arthur Enarson, Granger Avery, Eva-Marie Kröller and Martin Schechter.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

A total of 160 programs and projects led by UBC researchers were awarded funding through the 2022 NSERC research grants competition.
Event Date: Aug 2, 2022
VPRI Unit: SPARC

SPARC is pleased to present a new online resource for the NSERC Alliance grants competition. This guide will assist UBC applicants in understanding partnership requirements, determine partner eligibility and NSERC cost-sharing with budgeting examples, and provides strategic advice on completing the proposal template sections.

This guide can be found here (CWL-protected).
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

A total of 44 projects led by UBC researchers were awarded more than $9.7m through SSHRC's Partnership Grants, Partnership Development Grants and Insight Grants.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

Twelve UBC scholars will come together at PWIAS to cultivate relationships and initiate collaborations that engage with the urgency, scale and complexity of the Climate and Nature Emergency
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

The Life Sciences Institute (LSI) has become a designated UBC Global Research Excellence (GREx) Institute. As a GREx Institute, the LSI, housed in the UBC Life Sciences Centre, will pursue the Biological Resilience Initiative (BRI), integrating foundational, cross-disciplinary and collaborative research, across multiple scales to elucidate the mechanisms of resilience in biological systems.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

Training Program in 3D Printing Technology and Materials (3DPTM) awarded $1.65m
Event Date: Jun 8, 2022
VPRI Unit: Animal Care and Use Program

The ACS Animal Welfare Committee - comprised of Animal Care Services staff and veterinarians – aims to further improve the welfare of animals under our care. The Committee is actively seeking opportunities for increased application of the 3Rs (Replacement, Reduction and Refinement).
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

The 15 new and renewed UBC chairholders being announced represent an investment of $15.1 million through the Canada Research Chairs program.
Event Date: Jun 2, 2022
VPRI Unit: Research Ethics

In order to successfully upgrade the RISe system to Version 10, RISe will be inaccessible from 5pm  on Friday, June 17 until 5am on Monday, June 20.

There will be no user access during this time.

Please contact your ethics board if you have any concerns about your application.

If you have any questions about the RISe outage, please contact the RISe support desk staff at https://www.rise.ubc.ca/content/contact-us.

Thank you for your patience and understanding...

Event Date: Sep 1, 2022
VPRI Unit: SPARC
Event Date: May 27, 2022
VPRI Unit: Animal Care and Use Program

The current economic conditions with escalating prices of goods and services continue to present challenges for many industries, including the animal-science based research community.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

May 12, 2022

Canada’s Stem Cell Network (SCN) announced funding of $19.5 million for 32 stem cell and regenerative medicine research projects and clinical trials across Canada.

UBC researchers are leading seven projects awarded a total of $2.85 million from the Stem Cell Network. A further three projects involving UBC co-investigators and collaborators were awarded a combined $6.3 million.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

Today, the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, and the Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Health, are announcing an investment of $19.2 million to support 46 community-based and community-led research partnerships through the Race, Gender and Diversity Initiative.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

Three UBC teams were among 18 projects awarded up to $50,000 each to develop activities at the local, regional and/​or national level that advance awareness, understanding, development and adoption of research data management tools, best practices and resources in Canada. 
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

UBC's Alexander T. Duncan and Dr. Amy Parent announced as members.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences honors excellence and convenes leaders to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and the world, and advance the public good
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

The Rideau Hall Foundation (RHF) today announced the recipients of the seventh annual Governor General’s Innovation Awards (GGIA). Among the awardees was the team responsible for developing the lipid nanoparticles that delivered mRNA vaccines during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

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