Congratulations to this year’s Health Professional-Investigator award recipients.
Partner Categories: Lotte and John Hecht Memorial Foundation
A 20-year journey of health research in BC: Bringing hope and healing through emerging therapies
Dr. Shannon Dames’ Roots to Thrive program enables caregivers facing burnout to succeed and flourish in high-stress situations.
34 post-doctoral fellows funded in MSFHR’s 2018 Research Trainee competition
34 Research Trainees to receive salary support as they establish their careers and train alongside more senior members of BC’s health research community.
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Partnerships create new research opportunities
In the 2015 Trainee Program competition, partnerships enabled MSFHR to co-fund 12 post-doctoral fellowship awards across a wide spectrum of health issues. For the recipients, these partnered awards have been a difference-maker.
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MSFHR announces 2015 Trainee award recipients
Forty-eight* exceptional young investigators will receive Trainee awards from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research to support post-doctoral study at BC institutions.
The award recipients, selected from a highly competitive pool of 231 applications, represent a bright future for health research in British Columbia. Their innovative projects span a broad range of disciplines and will help to address important health challenges for the benefit of all British Columbians.
Thirteen of this year’s awards will be jointly funded in partnership with BC-based health charities, health authorities, and not-for-profit organizations. MSFHR is pleased to partner with the following organizations to support research directly relevant to their respective mandates:
- AllerGen
- BC Cancer Foundation
- Lotte and John Hecht Memorial Foundation
- Pacific Alzheimer Research Foundation
- Rick Hansen Institute/International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries
- Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute
With a maximum term of three years, MSFHR Trainee Awards support highly qualified researchers at the post-PhD and post-health professional degree stages to prepare for careers as independent investigators. By supporting the training of these researchers, BC is well positioned to retain them as future health research leaders.
Since 2001, MSFHR has invested more than $38 million in funding more than 1,200 Trainee awards that build on Dr. Michael Smith’s legacy of support for up-and-coming scientists.
*Number updated August 31, 2015
Partner profile: Lotte & John Hecht Memorial Foundation
As part of its support for health research, the Lotte & John Hecht Memorial Foundation has partnered with MSFHR since 2007 to jointly fund three research trainees exploring projects related to cancer treatment.
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MSFHR announces 2013 Trainee award recipients
Fifty-nine exceptional BC health researchers have been named recipients of post-doctoral fellowship awards through MSFHR's 2013 Research Trainee competition.
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