Announcing the 2025/26 Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters Competition

***Shared on behalf of Dr. Robert McMaster (Vice Dean, Research, Faculty of Medicine). Please cascade within your unit.***

We are pleased to announce the 2025/26 Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters (GCRC) Competition.

The competition is open to new and returning clusters of research excellence in all disciplines at UBC Vancouver. Applicants may select a budget term of one or two years. Cluster leads must submit a notice of intent at https://apply.research.ubc.ca by November 1, 2024. Full applications are due January 8, 2025.

More information about this funding competition, the application process and upcoming information sessions on October 18 and 22 is available at www.research.ubc.ca/GCRC.

Grants are enabled by the UBC Vancouver Academic Excellence Funds in support of Research Excellence Strategy 6 (Collaborative Clusters) in UBC’s strategic plan.

Sincerely,

Gail Murphy
Vice-President,
UBC Research & Innovation

Gage Averill
Provost and Vice-President,
Academic, UBC Vancouver

We humbly acknowledge, with gratitude, that we live, work, and play as an uninvited guest on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil- Waututh) Nations.