Research Community News

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: RISe

Our sincere apologies for any inconvenience this morning. After checking with UBC IT, our team has been notified there was a server outage with UBC's own CWL authentication system (not RISe itself).

We have checked with UBC IT and have confirmed with them the issue is resolved - we have linked the below link for UBC IT's outage bulletin on this issue. 

https://status.it.ubc.ca/incidents/2nxjvpcwtjsn?u=2pk3qbcqjqz2

Event Date: Feb 16, 2023
VPRI Unit: Animal Care and Use Program

McGill University will no longer provide controlled substances to researchers holding a Health Canada Exemption to Use a Controlled Substance for Scientific Purposes. This means they can no longer be listed as the supplier on the Health Canada Exemption.   UBC Animal Care Services has an account with an alternate supplier CDMV, to allow researchers to order controlled drugs listed on their Health Canada Exemption.  

Event Date: Feb 15, 2023
VPRI Unit: Research Ethics

Effective February 14, 2023, the Behavioural Research Ethics Board (BREB) has reduced its COVID safety requirements for conducting in-person research. While continuing to be concerned for the safety of research participants, the BREB will no longer require researchers to submit Safe Research Plans for in-person research, except in the following circumstances: 

Event Date: Feb 15, 2023
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

In response to the Tri-Agency’s Research Data Management Policy, UBC has released its institutional research data management strategy, co-sponsored by the Vice-President, Research and Innovation, UBC Library and the Office of the Chief Information Officer.

Event Date: Feb 15, 2023
VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing

In response to the Tri-Agency’s Research Data Management Policy, UBC has released its institutional research data management strategy, co-sponsored by the Vice-President, Research and Innovation, UBC Library and the Office of the Chief Information Officer.

VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

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.

VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

February 6, 2023

A total of 67 projects led by UBC researchers were awarded more than $30 million in combined funding through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Project Grant: Fall 2022 competition.

VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

On January 19, 2023 the Honourable Filomena Tassi, Minister of the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario, on behalf of the Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Health, announced a new investment to support one clinical trials consortium, seven training platforms, and 22 research projects. This is Canada’s largest-ever investment in clinical trials.

VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals, has elected Dr. Rashid Sumaila to the newest class of AAAS Fellows, among the most distinct honours within the global scientific community.

VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

The University Killam Professorship recognizes exceptional teachers and researchers who are leaders in their fields, and who have received international recognition for their talents and achievements. It is the highest honour UBC can confer on a faculty member. The new University Killam Professors are: Nemy Banthia (Civil Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science), Dominic McIver Lopes (Philosophy, Faculty of Arts) and Natalie Strynadka (Biochemistry & Molecular...

Event Date: Jan 19, 2023
VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing

The Digital Research Alliance of Canada (the Alliance) seeks survey feedback to better understand how Canadian researchers would like to use cloud services (i.e., compute and storage) to inform the development of the National Cloud Strategy.

VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

UBC ranks second in Canada’s Top 50 Research Universities, 2022

Event Date: Jan 17, 2023
VPRI Unit: Research Ethics

The Panel on Research Ethics (PRE) has released the TCPS 2022 version. Changes include:

new provisions concerning broad consent stem cells and human cell lines multiple site review (until further notice, the current procedures for harmonizing UBC Ethics applications will remain the same)

Updates to BREB and CREB guidance and web links will be made as soon as possible and as needed. In the meantime, please see:

VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

January 12, 2023

The Office of the Vice-President, Research & Innovation is pleased to announce the appointment of two UBC faculty members to the role of faculty research advisors. 

Faculty research advisors serve both campuses and provide strategic guidance, advice and leadership regarding research funding. They work in collaboration with VPRI support units to promote awareness of funding opportunities across all disciplines and to provide support for...

Event Date: Jan 4, 2023
VPRI Unit: Research Ethics

Beginning 2023, the CREB will focus on re-review of applications that were approved prior to 2014.  An ethics re-review to ensure the study meets current ethical requirements, will be undertaken and communicated individually with each PI and primary contact on the study. 

VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

Appointees include Drs. Allen Eaves, Paula Gordon, David Ley and Pitman Potter

VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

December 19, 2022

The BC Knowledge Development Fund (BCKDF) has awarded $3.7 million for 13 research projects being led by researchers at the University of British Columbia.

Event Date: Dec 14, 2022
VPRI Unit: Research Ethics

The Research Ethics offices (Behavioural and Clinical) will be open through December 23rd and will then be closed until Tuesday, January 3rd. There will be limited staff December 22nd and 23rd, so please anticipate some delays in response times.

We wish you an auspicious start to 2023!

Event Date: Dec 12, 2022
VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing

Results from UBC’s Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI) needs assessment survey have been released as a joint report from UBC Library, and UBC Advanced Research Computing (UBC ARC).

The report outlines findings from a survey of over 200 UBC researchers on both campuses undertaken in spring 2021, and reveals three key recommendations on how to support UBC researchers to access appropriate training and services in digital research skills such as data and statistical analysis,...

VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

A new partnership in clean energy that builds on a long history of Canada-Germany research cooperation

Event Date: Nov 30, 2022
VPRI Unit: Office of Research Services (news)

TGMS overview The three federal granting agencies, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) have embarked on an initiative to modernize their grants management system to better support applicants, administrators and reviewers during the grants management lifecycle.

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