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VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing

Date: Tuesday, September 29th, 2017 (9am-4pm)Location: Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Lillooet Room 301 

“Open scholarship, which encompasses open access, open data, open educational resources, and all other forms of openness in the scholarly and research environment, is changing how knowledge is created and shared.” – Association of Research Libraries
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Ten of first eleven awards go to UBC-appointed researchers
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

Fifteen UBC projects were awarded a total of $3.9m in the latest round of CFI funding through the John R. Evans leaders Fund. 
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

Accomplished computer science professor. Co-founder and board member of one of UBC’s most successful spin-off companies. Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Experienced administrator. Meet Dr. Gail Murphy, UBC’s new Vice-President, Research and Innovation (VPRI) effective August 14, 2017.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

Nine UBC Researchers attracted a combined $23.4m in the latest round of Foundation Grants announced by CIHR.

Faulkner, Guy Exercise and Depression: Moving from Efficacy to Effectiveness   $533,768

Hancock, Robert Ernest W Alternatives to antibiotics: New strategies for treating multi-drug resistant infections   $3,386,826

Hayden, Michael R Novel Approaches Directed to Prevention and Treatment of Huntington Disease $3,568,457
VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing

Date: Wednesday, August 9th, 2017 (9am-12.30pm) Location: RM 256 - Chilcotin Boardroom, Irving K Barber Learning Centre 

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 Research data management - National and Global Perspectives and an efficient way forward
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

The Offices of the Vice-President Research and the Provost and Vice-President Academic are pleased to announce the 2017 Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters Competition.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

Dr. Dolph Schluter leads research funded through Genome BC’s Sector Innovation Program
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

Researchers at UBC and the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute partner with Dynacare in joint project funded through Genome Canada’s Genomic Applications Partnership Program (GAPP) and Genome British Columbia.
Event Date: Sep 21, 2016
VPRI Unit: SPARC
Event Date: Sep 21, 2016
VPRI Unit: SPARC
VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing

Date: Wednesday, June 28th 10am PDT / 1pm EDTLocation: Online webinar. REGISTER HERE
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

Professor Gail Murphy has been appointed as the new Vice-President, Research and Innovation for UBC. She will formally begin the role on August 14, 2017.

Gail Murphy is currently a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Associate Vice-President, Research pro tem at UBC. She is also co-founder and Chief Scientist at Tasktop Technologies Incorporated.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

Dr. Julio Montaner was interviewed by Paul Kennedy for the CBC radio show "Ideas".
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

 
VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing

Date: Thursday, June 1st, 2017Location: UBC Library, Koerner Library, Room K217, 1958 Main Mall, Vancouver BC V6T 1Z2 Canada

Please REGISTER HERE. 
VPRI Unit: Research Ethics

The UBC REBs released a statement on May 15, 2017 regarding US FDA 1572 Forms.  This policy statement is intended to outline the REB's perspective on Investigators signing US FDA Form 1572 and to set out alternatives that an investigator can propose to the sponsor so that neither the investigator nor the REB are obligated to comply with foreign (US) regulations.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

Ten UBC researchers were among the latest Canada Research Chairs appointments.
VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing

Date: May 1-3, 2017Location: Vancouver, BC 

With increasing adoption of Next Generation Sequencing technologies to infectious disease surveillance and outbreak investigations, genomic epidemiology (combining pathogen genomics data with epidemiological investigations to track the spread of infectious diseases) is poised to change the practices of public health and infection controls and provides unprecedented amount of data for pathogen evolution studies.

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