BC Environmental and Occupational Health Research Network

Permissible research topics include clinical or basic research on the biochemical, genetic, hematologic, orthopedic, psychiatric or dental aspects of the hemophilias or von Willebrand disease. Other topics include rehabilitation, therapeutic modalities, psychosocial issues, women’s health issues, liver disease, or AIDS/HIV as they pertain to the hemophilias or von Willebrand disease.

The Governing Body of Magdalene College expects to elect two stipendiary Research Fellows with tenure for three years from 1 October 2010 (the Nevile Fellowship, endowed through the generosity of Trinity College, will be in the Sciences; the Lumley Fellowship, endowed through the generosity of H. R. L. Lumley, will be in the Humanities). Applications are invited from graduates, male or female, from any university. Candidates should normally have completed two or three years of research and may have written a Ph.D. dissertation.

Fellowships for Graduate Studies are available to students from abroad. The Fellowship includes a monthly stipend ranging from $750 (for M.Sc. students) to $1000 (for Ph.D. students) and one return ticket (tourist class) from their home town to Israel and back. Payments are made in Israeli Shekels and linked to the representative rate of exchange Graduate fellowships are granted initially for one semester or one year with the possibility of extension, for the duration of degree requirements, subject to the necessary recommendations.

Support is provided to carry out short-term research projects in the tropics in areas of STRI research, under the supervision of STRI Staff Scientists. STRI research associates, STRI postdoctoral fellows and STRI Senior Lab Managers may also serve as consultants, in collaboration with a staff scientist.

Outstanding researchers who have recently completed a PhD are invited to apply for
Postdoctoral Fellowships at one of the Institute’s four collaborating universities: University of British Columbia, University of Northern British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, and the University of Victoria. Fellowships are valued at up to $50,000 per year.
Fellowship holders will conduct research in an area related to one of the following four general themes, all of which overlap to varying degrees, and all of which are of key importance to British Columbia:
• establishing a low-carbon-emissions economy;
• enhancing ecosystem resilience;
• enhancing social mobilization within the framework of adapting to and mitigating climate change;
• establishing sustainable communities

The clinical research fellowship program, therefore, is a strategic initiative to encourage promising young scientists possessing a doctoral qualification (MD) in medicine to enter the field of Parkinson’s clinical research and to invest in research training that offers promise for future work in the area of Parkinson’s disease. Funds awarded under the Program are to be used to cover salary, benefits and expenses for clinical research fellowships in Parkinson’s-related areas.

DAAD offers grants for one to three months in all academic disciplines to scholars at US and Canadian institutions of higher education to pursue research at universities, libraries, archives, institutes or laboratories in Germany. Grants are awarded for specific research projects and cannot be used for travel only, attendance at conferences or conventions, editorial meetings, lecture tours or extended guest professorships.

Funding is to support the work of students in any healthcare profession, as well as other disciplines (including but not limited to social sciences, human kinetics, psychology and human factors engineering) interested in patient safety. The goal is to create new collaborative learning opportunities aligned with the mandate of CPSI. Students are required to be the major resource in carrying out the tasks involved in each patient safety project.

The Chaim Roifman Scholar award is specifically for residents or young investigators who are studying in allergy and clinical immunology (preference will be given to Canadian based researchers).The research project must have clinical relevance.

CIP will award the following five scholarships in 2010:
• One Dillon Consulting Limited Scholarship of $5,000 for the overall best submission from a graduate student.
• One CIP President’s Scholarship of $4,000 for the most outstanding research submission as determined by the jury’s highest score on fulfilling the criteria.
• Three Past President Scholarships of $2,000 each for the next top three research submissions as determined by the jury’s score on fulfilling the criteria

The CBCF, BC/Yukon Region Annual Breast Cancer Research Postgraduate Fellowship is awarded every year to the most qualified Breast Cancer Research projects. The award totals up to $80,000 a year, up to two years.

This is a one-year grant of $35,000. Research projects are restricted to translational pancreatic cancer research that includes the use of human tissue and has implications for therapeutic application and individualized medicine. Proposed research must have implications for individualized cancer treatment and must make use of human biopsies or samples, such as needle biopsies or circulating cancer cells. In vivo primary tumor explants meet these criteria, but xenografts from established cell lines do not. One grant will be awarded this cycle.

is a one-year grant of $30,000. Research projects are restricted to translational or clinical cancer research that has an ultimate goal of developing or improving therapeutic interventions for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer. One grant will be awarded this cycle.

The IARC is offering an Expertise Transfer Fellowship to enable an established investigator to spend normally from six to twelve months in an appropriate host institute in a low- / medium-resource country* in order to transfer knowledge and expertise in a research area relevant for the host country and related to the Agency’s programmes: epidemiology, biostatistics, environmental chemical carcinogenesis, cancer etiology and prevention, infection and cancer, molecular cell biology, molecular genetics, molecular pathology and mechanisms of carcinogenesis.

The IARC is offering a Visiting Scientist Award for a qualified and experienced investigator with recent publications in international peer-reviewed scientific journals who wishes to spend from six to twelve months at the IARC working on a collaborative project in a research area related to the Agency’s programmes: epidemiology, biostatistics, environmental chemical carcinogenesis, cancer etiology and prevention, infection and cancer, molecular cell biology, molecular genetics, molecular pathology and mechanisms of carcinogenesis.

The Fellowship Programme has been reorganized to offer postdoctoral fellowships to junior scientists from low- or medium-resource countries who wish to complete their training at the IARC in Lyon, France working in a research Group.

The Vanier CGS program aims to attract and retain world-class doctoral students by supporting students who demonstrate a high standard of scholarly achievement in graduate studies in the social sciences and humanities, natural sciences and engineering, and health; as well as leadership skills. Both Canadian and international students are eligible to be nominated for a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship.

Up to three (3) Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship will be awarded to students from Canada for graduate study at Harvard University in academic year 2010-2011. The Fellows will be required to devote the major part of their time to study in one of the Faculties of Harvard University: Arts and Sciences (including Engineering), Business Administration, Design, Divinity Studies, Education, Law, Public Administration (John F. Kennedy School of Government), Medicine, Dental Medicine and Public Health. The University will try to arrange courses suitable to the requirements of the Fellows.

This fellowship provides a unique opportunity for the most promising newly qualified postdoctoral researchers to make an early start in developing their independent research careers, working in the best laboratories in the UK and overseas.
Candidates will be expected to identify an important biomedical research question and to develop and deliver a personal program to achieve their research aims.

The “Lichtenberg Professorships“ are designed to combine support for both persons as well as institutions. The Volkswagen Foundation will provide support to outstandingly qualified (junior) academics in connection with innovative fields of research located between the disciplines as well as new teaching concepts within the respective research environment. The funding which will be made available for a period of up to eight years is expected to pave an interesting new path in higher education and research. On the one hand, young scholars will be offered a future perspective on a kind of “tenure- track”, and on the other hand institutions will gain a better basis for planning – both from a strategic point of view with respect to content as well as concerning personnel planning.