Please cascade within your department/centre/organization.

• MSFHR has launched its 2017 Scholar Competition. The LOI deadline has been extended to November 7. Please visit the Faculty of Medicine website for further details, including support sessions being offered by the Faculty.
• Please note the following internal signature deadlines for the upcoming major competitions:
  • CIHR Fellowship Award: October 24
  • NSERC Discovery Grant: October 24

UBC Faculty of Medicine: Graduate Student Awards
Full-time graduate students who are registered in any UBC Faculty of Medicine graduate program, or full-time graduate students whose main supervisor has a primary appointment with the UBC Faculty of Medicine are eligible to apply for the Graduate Student Awards. | Deadline: October 21, 4pm

UBC: Killam Postdoctoral Fellow Research Prize
Two prizes in the amount of $5000 awarded annually to full-time Postdoctoral Fellows at UBC in recognition of outstanding research and scholarly contributions while at UBC. | FoM Internal Deadline: November 10, 4pm

Association for Frontal Temporal Degeneration: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Provides $55,000 (USD)/year for two years to support basic, translational, clinical, and epidemiological FTD research. | LOI Deadline: November 14

Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy (CURE): Innovator Award
Supports the exploration of a highly innovative, often risky new concept or untested theory that addresses an important problem relevant to epilepsy. | LOI Deadline: November 16

Alzheimer’s Drugs Discovery Foundation: Program to Accelerate Clinical Trials
Funding for up to $3 million per application for biomarker-based pilot clinical trials for Alzheimer’s disease, Phase I safety testing and IND- enabling studies to accelerate new drugs into trials. | LOI Deadline: November 18

AstraZeneca: Diabetes Junior Investigator Award
Award created to support research and education initiatives for physicians at an early stage of their career who are involved in the management of diabetes and related diseases. | Deadline: November 18

AFMC: Call for Nominations
The AFMC is currently looking for nominations for the following awards:

• AFMC Award for Outstanding Contribution to Faculty Development in Canada
• AFMC Young Educators Award
• AFMC – John Ruedy Award for Innovation in Medical Education
• AFMC – May Cohen Equity, Diversity and Gender Award
• AFMC – President’s Award for Exemplary National Leadership in Academic Medicine
• AFMC Clinical Teacher Award
• AFMC Charles Boelen International Social Accountability Award

Nominations must include a letter of support from the Dean’s Office. If you are interested in submitting a nomination, please contact Bryan Wong. | Internal Nomination Deadline: October 26

• October 20, 9am: BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute PITCH Seminar Series: An immunological basis for insulin resistance: the role of adaptive immunity and the emerging field immunometabolism, presented by Dan Winer, Scientist, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute & Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
• October 24: UBC presents the Gairdner Symposium
• October 27, 2:30pm, OSOT Lab 1/2, 3rd floor UBC Hospital Koerner Pavilion: Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy and Grand Valley State University presents “Providing Power Mobility Training for Children with Multiple, Severe Disabilities: The Grand Valley Power Mobility Project” – please RSVP by Oct 18 with Letitia Henville
• November 17: Centre for Blood Research presents the 10th Annual Earl W. Davie Symposium
• December 5, 3-4:30pm: Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation presents A Losing Battle? Health Science in the Age of Celebrity. Featuring guest speaker Professor Timothy Caulfield. Please RSVP by November 21.
• April 19-21, 2017: University of Toronto Science Leadership Program. Deadline for required applications: October 31