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Dr. Simon Pimstone wins the Lifetime Achievement award, Dr. Pieter Cullis the Global Impact award and spinoffs Precision Nanosystems and Acuitas Therapeutics also recognized.
Appointees include Drs. Paul Dubord, Donald Arthur Enarson, Granger Avery, Eva-Marie Kröller and Martin Schechter.
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…
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.
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: SPARC
SPARC will be offering reviews of NFRF Special Call: Research for Postpandemic Recovery Full Applications. Researchers are invited to submit their proposals to SPARC for review between Monday, July 25 and Wednesday, August 3. Please submit via email to danica.kell@ubc.ca by or before…
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.
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.
Training Program in 3D Printing Technology and Materials (3DPTM) awarded $1.65m
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). One…
We acknowledge that UBC’s two main campuses are situated within the ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam people, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.