The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has announced the results of its Fall 2022 project grant competition. Congratulations to all the VCHRI researchers who were awarded project grants and priority announcement grants.
Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) is proud to recognize the outstanding contributions of long-term research staff with this year’s inaugural Research Excellence Staff Award (RESA). This competition acknowledges staff members with 10 or more years of service who have demonstrated research excellence through mentorship, building research culture and upholding the VCHRI values of integrity, accountability, collaboration, equity and community- and patient-focus. Each recipient will receive $15,000 of lab funding, as well as a personal honorarium for their dedicated work.
Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) supports innovation and improvements in health care through its Knowledge Translation (KT) Challenge, a program run in collaboration with Providence Health Care and BC Cancer. This competition encourages health care practitioners to improve patient care by translating evidence and research findings into practice. The KT Challenge facilitates innovative research projects that advance patient care by partnering practitioners with researchers who provide knowledge translation mentorship and resources.
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has announced the results of its Spring 2022 project grant competition. Congratulations to all the VCHRI researchers who were awarded project grants.
Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) is proud to support tomorrow’s research leaders with the Top Graduating Doctoral Student Awards and the Rising Star Awards. These awards recognize outstanding efforts by VCHRI trainees for research excellence, service as role models and other contributions that each has made to benefit the Vancouver Coastal Health research community.
The 2022 Top Graduating Doctoral Student Award recipients are:
Through collaborative efforts and meaningful partnerships, new ideas move from bench to bedside, improving health care practices and patient outcomes. Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute is proud to support research through Team Grant mentorships, which facilitate Vancouver Coastal Health staff and clinicians to work with experienced investigators to share knowledge and build connections. These grants enhance health care delivery by supporting cooperative practice-based research projects aimed at addressing current health care challenges.
The YWCA Women of Distinction Awards is a nationally recognized event that celebrates extraordinary women leaders and businesses in Metro Vancouver. Congratulations to the VCHRI award recipients for their groundbreaking work in health care sustainability, substance use education and environmental infection control.
Taking innovative research from concept to application is critical for improving health care systems and the well-being of patients. VCHRI is proud to support investigators and their groundbreaking health research with the Innovation and Translational Research Awards. This year’s recipients are putting new knowledge into practice, implementing research outcomes and turning discoveries into commercial opportunities.
The 2022 Innovation and Translational Research Award recipients are:
Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) facilitates clinician-scientists in their efforts to make new discoveries to improve the health and well-being of patients across their lifespan. Supported by the VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation, the peer-reviewed Investigator Awards provide salary support to leading health research investigators in order to allow them to reduce their clinical commitments and expand their capacity for innovation-driven research that creates new health care knowledge.
The 2022 VCHRI Investigator Awards recipients are:
