Funding supports 16 UBC-led projects awarded almost $29m through the NFRF 2022 Transformation, Exploration and Special Call Competitions
UBC awards over $745,000 to support community-university partnerships that benefit communities and advance collaborative research, teaching and learning throughout British Columbia.
Canada’s biotech ecosystem is poised for a major boost with the federal government announcement today that B.C. will be home to Canada’s Immuno-Engineering and Biomanufacturing Hub (CIEBH).
A total of 38 emerging and established Research Excellence Clusters led by researchers on the Vancouver campus will be supported in 2023/24. This total includes 23 awards made through the 2023/24 Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters Competition (GCRC) and 15 clusters entering the second year of their current award.
A team of researchers from UBC and Simon Fraser University (SFU) have received $6.8M in funding from the Healthy Cities Implementation Science (HCIS) Team Grants, including $3M from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), for their research that aims to promote healthy aging, by tackling the epidemics of physical inactivity and loneliness that plague older adults living in medium- and large-sized cities.