Grant Support and Deadlines

 

UBC Science offers guidance and practical support for researchers in identifying potential funding sources and with the application process. Faculty members in all nine Science departments are encouraged to contact Kathie Thompson, the Faculty's research grant facilitator.

Services

  • Regularly updated information regarding funding opportunities
  • Advice and guidance on research grant proposal preparation
  • Substantive review of proposal drafts and applications
  • Facilitation of interdisciplinary collaborations and partnerships
  • Information regarding signature requirements for grant submissions

Grant Application Deadlines

Anytime Applications
MITACS Student Internships (Accelerate BC)
NSERC Partnerships Workshops Program
NSERC Interaction Grants Program
NSERC Engage Grants (EG) Program
May
May 1 NSERC CREATE program (LOI, external)
May 1 NSERC Discovery Frontier: Advancing Big Data Science in Genomics (LOI)
May 1 NSERC Collaborative & Thematic Resources Support in Mathematics & Statistics (LOI)
May 1 SSHRC/NSERC/CFI: Digging into Data Challenge Round 3 (application)
May 15 CIHR/NSERC Collaborative Health Research Projects (LOI)
May 15 CFI - LOF (‘retention’ candidates, UBC deadline for internal review)
May 15 Canada Council Killam Research Fellowships (application)
June
Jun 1 Peter Wall Institute Distinguished Scholars in Residence (nomination)
Jun 1 NSERC Strategic Network Grant (preliminary application)
Jun 5 NIH: Research Grants, R01 new
Jun 7 E.W.R. Steacie Fellowship (nomination)
Jun 10 CGS-MSFSS Foreign Study Supplements Program (application)
Jun 15 Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Prize (nominations)
Jun 15 CFI - LOF (‘attraction’ and 'retention' candidates, Ottawa submission)
Jun 30 E.W.R. Steacie Prize (nomination)
Jun 30 Canadian Mathematical Society Coxeter-James award (nomination)
July
Jul 2 NSERC Idea-to-Innovation Grant (I2I)
Jul 5 Canadian Blood Services postdoctoral fellowships
Jul 20 NSERC International Opportunities Fund (pre-proposal)
Jul 31 Prix Galien Canada Fellowship (nomination)
August
Aug 1 NSERC: Discovery (Operating) Grant (submission of NOI)
Aug 1 Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) Competition 2015 (LOI)
Aug 15 CIHR Operating Grant: 2013-2014 (registration)
Aug 15 SSHRC Insight Grants (NOI)
Aug 16 Marie Curie Fellowships for Canadians - EF7 (application)
Aug 25 CFI - LOF ('attraction' candidates, UBC internal review)
September
Sep 1 Heart and Stroke Foundation Canada Grant-in-Aid
Sep 1 NSERC Ship Time Grants
Sep 6 Canada Research Chair (CRC) Renewal (UBC deadline)
Sep 10 Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships (UBC deadline for internal review)
Sep 15 Killam Research Fellowships (application)
Sep 16 Sloan Fellowship Nominations
Sep 16 CFI - LOF (‘retention’ candidates, UBC deadline for internal review)
Sep 17 CIHR Operating Grant: 2013-2014 (application)
Sep 18 Marie Curie Career Integration Grants (CIG) (application)
Sep 19 Guggenheim Fellowship Nominations
Sep 23 NSERC CREATE program (full appln., Ottawa deadline, if invited)
Sep 30 NSERC Idea-to-Innovation Grant (I2I)
October
Oct 1 NSERC-DG Subatomic Physics Project (SAP) (full application)
Oct 1 CIHR/NSERC Collaborative Health Research Projects (appln., if invited)
Oct 1 NSERC: Research Tools & Instruments: Categories 2 & 3 (SAP) (application)
Oct 1 CIHR Fellowship 2013-2014 (application)
Oct 1 Killam Research Prize (UBC internal award)
Oct 5 NIH: Research Grants, R01 new Cycle III
Oct 10 CGS-MSFSS Foreign Study Supplements Program (appln)
Oct 15 CFI - LOF (‘attraction’ candidates, Ottawa submission)
Oct 15 CIHR Team Grant - Health Challenges in Chronic Inflammation (appln.)
Oct 15 NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowships
Oct 15 SSHRC Insight Grants (application)
Oct 15 UBC Jacob Biely Faculty Research Prize (nomination)
Oct 15 UBC Charles A. McDowell Faculty Research Prize (nomination)
Oct 15 UBC International Research Collaboration Workshop Grant (appln)
Oct 15 Alexander von Humboldt Professorship (nomination)
Oct 21 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award (Humboldt Foundation, nomination)
Oct 21 Canada Research Chair (CRC) Nomination or Renewal (prior internal review req'd)
Oct 25 NSERC: Research Tools and Instruments: Category 1 (application)
November
Nov 1 NSERC: Discovery (Operating) Grant (full application)
Nov 1 NSERC Northern Research Supplements Program
Nov 1 Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships (nomination)
Nov 6 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships Program (nomination)
Nov 15 BC Lung Association Research Grant (registration)
Nov 22 Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowships
Nov 29 France Canada New Collaboration Research Fund (application)
Nov 29 Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) Projects (application)
Nov 29 SSHRC Partnership Development Grant (application)
December
Dec 1 Manning Foundation Research Innovation Awards (nomination)
Dec 6 BC Lung Association Research Grant (application)
Dec 12 MITACS Postdoctoral Fellowships (application)
Dec 20 NSERC International Opportunities Fund (full appln., Ottawa deadline, if invited)
January (2014)
Jan 7 NSERC Idea-to-Innovation (I2I) Grant
Jan 21 Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of Canada (CCFC) grant (appln.)
Jan 25 JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards
Jan 30 CUFA Distinguished Academic Awards (nomination)
Jan 31 Max Planck Research Award (Humboldt Foundation, nomination)
February
Feb 1 Peter Wall Institute Early Career Scholar (application)
Feb 1 SSHRC Insight Development Grant (application)
Feb 1 Canadian Diabetes Association Operating Grant (application)
Feb 1 Summer Studentships for Cystic Fibrosis research
Feb 1 CIHR Operating Grant (registration)
Feb 1 CIHR Master's Award (Banting-Best Graduate Fellowship)
Feb 4 Parkinson Society of Canada New Investigator Awards (application)
Feb 5 NIH: Research Grants, R01 new
Feb 15 CIHR Proof-of-Principle Phase I (application)
Feb 15 CIHR Proof-of-Principle Phase II (application)
Feb 15 SSHRC Connection Program Partnership Grant (LOI)
Feb 15 CCSRI Innovation Grant (abstract)
Feb 20 Japan Prize (Japan Foundation) (nomination, UBC deadline)
Feb 28 Timothy R. Parsons Award of Excellence in Ocean Sciences (nomination)
March
Mar 1 CIHR Operating Grant (application)
Mar 1 Peter Wall Institute Exploratory Workshop Grant (internal application)
Mar 1 Peter Wall Institute Visiting Research Scholar Program (application)
Mar 5 NIH: Research Grants, R01 resubmission, renewal, revision
Mar 7 Marie Curie Career Integration Grants (CIG) (application)
Mar 15 Canada Research Chair (CRC) Nomination or Renewal (UBC deadline)
Mar 20 Human Frontiers of Science Program (LOI)
Mar 27 Human Frontiers of Science Program (registration)
Mar 27 MITACS Accelerate 3-Year PhD Fellowships (Accelerate BC)
Mar 28 MSFHR Postdoctoral Fellowships (application)
Mar 28 NSERC CREATE program (LOI, internal, for pre-approval)
April
Apr 1 NSERC John C. Polanyi Award (nomination)
Apr 1 NSERC Gerhard Herzberg Prize (nomination)
Apr 1 NSERC Brockhouse Canada Prize (nomination)
Apr 1 IDRC Doctoral Research Award
Apr 1 NSERC Strategic Projects (application)
Apr 1 UBC International Research Collaboration Workshop Grant (application)
Apr 1 CCSRI Innovation Grant (application)
Apr 2 NSERC Idea-to-Innovation (I2I) Grant
Apr 2 CIHR Catalyst Grant: Environment, Genes and Chronic Disease (application)
Apr 15 CIHR Catalyst Grant: HIV/AIDS Community-based Research (application)
Apr 15 NSERC Synergy Award program (nomination)
Apr 15 Alexander von Humboldt Professorship (nomination)
Apr 15 Genome BC Proof-of-Concept Grant (application)
Apr 28 Canada Research Chair (Nomination or Renewal) (prior UBC internal review required)

Abbreviations

ACS – American Chemical Society
BCKDF – BC Knowledge Development Foundation
CCSRI - Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute (formerly NCIC)
CDA – Canadian Diabetes Association
CECR – Centres of Excellence for Commercialization & Research
CFI – Canada Foundation for Innovation
CGS - Canada Graduate Scholarships
CHRP - Collaborative Health Research Projects
CIHR – Canadian Institutes of Health Research
CRC – Canada Research Chair
CREATE - Collaborative Research & Training Experience
CSA – Canadian Space Agency
CUFA - Confederation of University Faculty Associations of BC
HFSP – Human Frontiers of Science Program
IDRC – International Development Research Centre
ISTP - International Science and Technology Partnerships
I2I – Idea-to-Innovation
JSPS – Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
LEF – Leading Edge Fund
LOF – Leaders Opportunity Fund
LOI – Letter of Intent
MITACS - Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems
MSFHR - Michael Smirth Foundation for Health Research
MSFSS – Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplements
NCE – Networks of Centres of Excellence
NIF – New Initiatives Fund
NIH - National Institutes of Health (USA)
NOI – Notice of Intent [to apply for a grant] (equivalent to registration)
NSERC – Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
OPC - Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
PWP - Partnership Workshops Program
PWIAS - Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies
SAP - Subatomic Physics
SNG - Strategic Network Grant
SPG – Strategic Project Grant
SSHRC - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

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