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Contents: August 27, 2010

1. Call for Nominations - UBC Faculty Research Awards and Prizes
2. Call for Nominations - The Margolese National Brain and Heart Disorders Prizes
3. Accepting Grant Proposals for Round 6 of Grand Challenges Explorations
4. Save the Date: InspireNet Fall Workshop

1. Call for Nominations - UBC Faculty Research Awards and Prizes
   
   

   Killam Faculty Research Fellowships (self-application)	Deadline: September 15, 2010
   Killam Research Prizes	Deadline: October 1, 2010
   Jacob Biely Research Prize	Deadline: October 15, 2010
   Charles McDowell Award for Excellence in Research	Deadline: October 15, 2010

   
   Guidelines and forms can be found at: http://www.research.ubc.ca/forms.aspx

2. Call for Nominations - The Margolese National Brain and Heart Disorders Prizes
   
   Nominations Deadline: October 1, 2010, midnight - Pacific Time
   
   The University of British Columbia's inaugural Margolese National Brain and Heart Disorders Prizes, each with a value of C$50,000, will be awarded in 2011.
   
   The Margolese National Brain Disorders Prize will be awarded annually to a Canadian who has made outstanding contributions to the treatment, amelioration, or cure of brain disorders. The Margolese National Heart Disorders Prize will be awarded annually to a Canadian who has made outstanding contributions to the treatment, amelioration, or cure of heart disorders. The Prizes are awarded with the expectation that the Prize recipients will continue to demonstrate excellence in their field of work.
   
   For further information: http://www.med.ubc.ca/research/dfo/faculty/margolese.htm

3. Accepting Grant Proposals for Round 6 of Grand Challenges Explorations
   
   Online deadline: November 2, 2010
   
   The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is now accepting grant proposals for Round 6 of Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative to encourage innovative and unconventional global health solutions. Applicants can be at any experience level, in any discipline, and from any organization, including colleges and universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations and for profit companies.
   
   Grant proposals are being accepted on the following topics:
   
   
   • The Poliovirus Endgame: Create Ways to Accelerate, Sustain and Monitor Eradication
   • Create the Next Generation of Sanitation Technologies
   • Design New Approaches to Cure HIV Infection
   • Create New Technologies to improve the Health of Mothers and Newborns
   • Create Low-Cost Cell Phone-Based Applications for Priority Global Health Diseases
   
   Initial grants will be US $100,000 each, and projects showing promise will have the opportunity to receive additional funding of up to US $1 million.
   
   Full descriptions of the new topics and application instructions are available at: http://www.grandchallenges.org/Pages/default.aspx

4. Save the Date: InspireNet Fall Workshop
   
   Date: November 22, 2010
   Location: Century Plaza Hotel, Vancouver
   Details about this fully sponsored exciting nursing health services research learning and networking opportunity will be announced soon.
   
   For more information on InspireNet: http://www.inspirenet.ca/about