External Competitions

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG): 2011-2012 Research Fellowships and Awards
  Deadline: October 1, 2010
  ACOG works primarily in four areas:
  • Serving as a strong advocate for quality health care for women.
  • Maintaining the highest standards of clinical practice and continuing education for its members.
  • Promoting patient education and stimulating patient understanding of and involvement in medical care.
  • Increasing awareness among its members and the public of the changing issues facing women's health care.
  For more information: www.acog.org/departments/dept_web.cfm?recno=25

  ** Members may log in to the website to view the awards and opportunities**

• AllerGen: Emerging Clinician-Scientist Research Fellowship
  Deadline: October 1, 2010
  This research fellowship is valued at $250,000 over two years. The goal of the AllerGen Emerging Clinician-Scientist Research Fellowship is to enable Canadian Clinical Immunologists and Allergists to pursue allergy, asthma and/or anaphylaxis academic research training immediately following their Clinical Immunology and Allergy sub-specialty training in order to:
  • Strengthen the academic capacity of Canadian Clinical Immunology and Allergy sub-specialists
  • Increase Canadian capacity for translational Clinical Immunology and Allergy research
  • Facilitate enhanced patient care through excellence in basic and clinical Allergy and related immune disease research.
  
  For more information: click here.

• Margolese National Brain & Heart Disorders Prizes
  Deadline: October 1, 2010
  Program Description

• Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships Program
  Deadline: November 2, 2010
  Program Description
  Preview of Key Application Elements

• Prostate Cancer Research Foundation of Canada
  The Prostate Cancer Research Foundation of Canada (PCRFC) is offering a limited number of Clinician-Scientist awards, which provide salary and research support for outstanding Clinician-Scientists initiating a career as independent investigators/junior faculty in prostate cancer research. These awards provide the opportunity for new faculty with 3 or fewer years of service to develop and demonstrate independence in initiating and conducting prostate cancer research.

  For more information on program guidelines and applications, please visit our website under What's New section or click on the link: www.prostatecancer.ca/Research.aspx

• CIHR Institute of Population & Public Health and its partners announce a strategic initiative entitled ""Programmatic Research to Tackle Health and Health Equity"

• List of External Funding from the office of UBC Research Services
  www.ors.ubc.ca/funding/deadlines.htm

• NSERC Officially Opens New Pacific Regional Office in Vancouver

• External Granting Agencies

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