Congratulations to three deserving postdocs, Drs. San-Soo Han, James McCoy, and Samrat Thouta of the Michael Smith Laboratories for receiving the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR) 2018 Research Trainee awards! The Research Trainee Program is one of MSFHR’s flagship funding opportunities. Since 2001, MSFHR has supported more than 1,200 Research Trainees ̶ health researchers in the training phase of their careers ̶ to protect time for…
The American Society of Hematology (ASH) will honor Connie J. Eaves, PhD, FRS (Canada), Corresponding FRS (Edinburgh), of BC Cancer and the University of British Columbia, with the 2018 E. Donnall Thomas Lecture and Prize for her outstanding contributions to the field of hematopoiesis and stem cell research. This lectureship and prize is named after the late Nobel Prize laureate…
The Research Trainee Program is one of MSFHR’s flagship funding opportunities. Since 2001, we’ve supported more than 1,200 Research Trainees ̶ health researchers in the training phase of their careers ̶ to protect time for research and career development, ultimately supporting the long-term success of the BC health research landscape. This year, 33 talented research trainees will receive salary support as they establish their careers…
We are pleased to congratulate the BC Children’s and BC Women’s investigators who were awarded funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Project Grant Spring 2018 competition, as well as the BC Children’s investigators who received funding from the recent CIHR Foundation and Team Grant competitions. Our research community received more than $4.9 million in new grants and awards…
Dr. Martin Gleave is the recipient of the fifth annual Dr. Chew Wei Memorial Prize in Cancer Research for his work to improve outcomes from prostate cancer, which has spanned surgery, molecular manipulation in the search for new treatments, and managing the challenge of taking lab discoveries to market. The UBC Faculty of Medicine bestows this award annually to a Canadian physician or scientist…
Four of Canada’s leading clinician scientists and researchers in heart health, brain health and cancer have been singled out by the University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine for their scientific accomplishments, and for their potential to make further contributions in their fields. The eighth annual Margolese National Heart Disorders Prize will be shared this year by two UBC faculty members: Andrew…
Alvin Qiu and Mihai Cirstea from the Michael Smith Laboratories have been named recipients of the 2018 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, Canada’s most prestigious scholarship for doctoral students in the social sciences and humanities, natural sciences, and/or engineering and health. The Government of Canada launched the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships program in 2008 to strengthen Canada’s ability to attract and retain world-class doctoral…
Dr. B. Brett Finlay, the Peter Wall Distinguished Professor in the Michael Smith Laboratories, and the Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Microbiology and Immunology, received $5.8 million over seven years in grant funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to support his research on host microbe interactions in health and disease The work done in the Finlay Lab…
As part of MSFHR’s commitment to fostering world-class health research in BC, and optimizing investments in health research, we provide opportunities for organizations to co-fund exceptional BC researchers applying for MSFHR funding. With MSFHR and partner organizations matching funding dollar-for-dollar, these partnerships allow us to effectively double our investment in health research, and enable our partners to support research in…
Last week, it was announced that Dr. Thibault Mayor had received a five-year Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) project grant in the amount of just over $730K. This grant will help support his research in better understanding how misfolded proteins are eliminated from the cell. Mayor, faculty member at the Michael Smith Laboratories and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, studies how misfolded…