UBC Science offers guidance to Science faculty members in identifying potential funding sources, as well as practical support with the application process for major funding agencies. Faculty members in all Science departments and units are encouraged to contact Kathie Thompson, Science 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 |
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| MITACS Student Internships (Accelerate BC) |
| MITACS Globalink Postdoctoral Internships |
| NSERC Alliance Grants (formerly Partnership Grants) |
| August | |
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| Aug 1 | NSERC: Research Tools & Instruments: Categories 2 & 3 (NOI) |
| Aug 1 | NSERC: SAP Major Resources Support Program (NOI) |
| Aug 1 | SSHRC Connection Grants |
| Aug 1 | NSERC: Discovery (Operating) Grant (NOI - mandatory) |
| Aug 10 | BCIC Ignite Program - Round 10 (LOI) |
| Aug 13 | Human Frontier Science Program Fellowship (registration) |
| Aug 27 | Human Frontier Science Program Fellowship (application) | Aug 28 | CSC/CIHR/BC (Brain Canada) Spark Grant (registration) |
| Aug 28 | CFI - John R. Evans Leaders Fund, JELF (CRC nominees, UBC-IPO deadline) | Aug 28 | Canada Research Chair (CRC) (Nomination or Renewal, UBC deadline) |
| September | |
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| Sep 1 | NSERC Ship Time Grants |
| Sep 3 | Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships (applicant deadline) |
| Sep 4 | CFI - John R. Evans Leaders Fund, JELF (non-CRC candidates, UBC deadline) |
| Sep 15 | NSERC PromoScience Grants (application) |
| Sep 15 | Alexander von Humboldt Professorship (nomination) |
| Sep 15 | Sloan Fellowship Nominations |
| Sep 16 | SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowships (final application) |
| Sep 17 | Canada Graduate Scholarships-CGS-D (application) |
| Sep 17 | Guggenheim Fellowship Nominations |
| Sep 22 | NSERC CREATE program (full appln., Ottawa deadline, if invited) |
| Sep 28 | NSERC Idea-to-Innovation Grant (I2I) |
| Sep 28 | MSFHR Reach program (application) |
| Sep 28 | MSFHR Convening and Collaborating (C2) grants (application) |
| Sep 30 | Canadian Mathematical Society Coxeter-James award (nomination) |
| November | |
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| Nov 1 | NSERC: Discovery (Operating) Grant (full application) |
| Nov 1 | NSERC Northern Research Supplements Program |
| Nov 1 | CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize (nomination) |
| Nov 1 | SSHRC Connection Grants |
| Nov 6 | Doctoral Research Award: Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships (2020-2021) |
| Nov 8 | Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowships |
| Nov 9 | Canada Research Chair (CRC) (Nomination or Renewal, Ottawa) |
| Nov 9 | CFI - John R. Evans Leaders Fund, JELF (CRC nominees, Ottawa deadline) |
| Nov 15 | SSHRC Partnership Development Grants (formal application) |
| Nov 15 | France-Canada Research Collaboration Program 2021 (application) |
| Nov 18 | New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) Transformation (application) |
| Nov 21 | Banting and Best Doctoral Award CIHR (application) |
| Nov 25 | NSERC Award for Science Promotion (nomination) |
| Nov 29 | MSFHR Scholar Awards (LOI) |
| Nov 29 | MSFHR Research Trainee 2021 (LOI) |
| Nov 29 | PWIAS French Scholars Lecture Series (LOI) |
| December | |
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| Dec 2 | WorkSafeBC Innovation at Work (LOI) |
| Dec 2 | Canada Graduate Scholarships - Master's (CSG M) Program (appln) |
| Dec 5 | Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Research Grant (application) |
| Dec 8 | NRSA-NIH Postdoctoral Fellowships, F Series (application) |
| January (2021) | |
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| Jan 6 | NSERC Idea-to-Innovation (I2I) Grant |
| Jan 6 | CFI - John R. Evans Leaders Fund, JELF (attraction candidates, UBC IPO deadline) |
| Jan 10 | BC Lung Association Research Grant Program (application) |
| Jan 27 | MSFHR Innovation to Commercialization (I2C) Program (LOI) |
| Jan 31 | MSFHR Research Trainee 2020 (application) | Jan 31 | CUFA-BC Distinguished Academic Awards Competition (nomination) |
| February | |
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| Feb 1 | SSHRC Connection Grants |
| Feb 1 | JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards |
| Feb 3 | CGS-MSFSS Foreign Study Supplements Program (application) |
| Feb 5 | CIHR Project Grants (registration) |
| Feb 5 | NIH: Research Grants, R01 new |
| Feb 7 | MSFHR Scholar Awards (application) |
| Feb 10 | MSFHR Health Professional Investigator Competition (LOI) |
| Feb 14 | WorkSafeBC Innovation at Work (full proposal) |
| Feb 14 | CFI - John R. Evans Leaders Fund, JELF (attraction and retention candidates, Ottawa deadline) |
| Feb 14 | New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) Transformation (NOI, ORS) |
| Feb 18 | New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) Transformation (NOI, Ottawa) |
| Feb 19 | NSERC CREATE program (LOI, internal) |
| Feb 19 | Canada Research Chair (CRC) (Nomination or Renewal, UBC deadline) |
| Feb 19 | CFI - John R. Evans Leaders Fund, JELF (CRC nominees, UBC deadline) |
| March | |
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| Mar 1 | Summer Studentships for Cystic Fibrosis research |
| Mar 1 | PWIAS International Visiting Research Scholars (application) |
| Mar 19 | Human Frontier Science Program (registration) |
| Mar 27 | CFI - John R. Evans Leaders Fund, JELF (attraction candidates, NOI to UBC/IPO deadline) |
| Mar 30 | Human Frontier Science Program (LOI) |
| Mar 31 | A. G. Huntsman Award for Excellence in the Marine Sciences (LOI) |
| Mar 31 | Timothy R. Parsons Award of Excellence in Ocean Sciences (nomination) |
| April | |
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| Apr 2 | E.W.R. Steacie Fellowship (internal review) | Apr 15 | Alexander von Humboldt Professorship (nomination) |
| Apr 27 | CFI - John R. Evans Leaders Fund, JELF (attraction candidates, UBC deadline) |
| May | |
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| May 1 | NSERC John C. Polanyi Award (nomination) |
| May 1 | NSERC Gerhard Herzberg Prize (nomination) |
| May 1 | NSERC Brockhouse Canada Prize (nomination) |
| May 1 | SSHRC Connection Grants |
| May 1 | SSHRC Impact Awards (nomination) |
| May 1 | PWIAS Wall Solutions Initiative Award (LOI) |
| May 1 | PWIAS Wall Colloquia Abroad |
| May 20 | CIHR: Food Security & Climate Change in the Canadian North (application) |
| May 25 | CFI - John R. Evans Leaders Fund, JELF (CRC nominees/renewals, UBC deadline) | May 29 | Canada Research Chair (CRC) (Nomination or Renewal, UBC final deadline) |
| May 31 | A. G. Huntsman Award for Excellence in the Marine Sciences (nomination) |
| June | |
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| Jun 1 | NSERC CREATE program (LOI, external) |
| Jun 1 | NSERC Synergy Award program (nomination) |
| Jun 3 | BCIC Ignite Program - Round 9 (application, if invited) |
| Jun 5 | NIH: Research Grants, R01 new |
| Jun 8 | Canada Research Chair (CRC) (Nomination or Renewal, Ottawa deadline) |
| Jun 8 | NSERC-UKRI Canada-UK joint projects in Quantum Technologies (QT) (Expression of Interest) |
| Jun 10 | CGS-MSFSS Foreign Study Supplements Program (application) |
| Jun 12 | CFI - John R. Evans Leaders Fund, JELF (CRC nominees, UBC-IPO deadline) |
| Jun 15 | CFI - John R. Evans Leaders Fund, JELF (attraction and retention candidates, Ottawa deadline) | Jun 22 | NSERC Idea-to-Innovation Grant (I2I) |
| Jun 30 | MSFHR Innovation to Commercialization (I2C) Program (appln.) |
| Jun 30 | Killam Research Prize (nominations) |
| Jun 30 | E.W.R. Steacie Prize (nomination) |
| July | |
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| Jul 7 | E.W.R. Steacie Fellowship (nomination) | Jul 15 | New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) Transformation (LOI, UBC ORS deadline) |
| Jul 16 | Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships (UBC deadline for internal review) |
| Jul 17 | MSFHR Health Professional Investigator Competition (application) |
Abbreviations
- ACS - American Chemical Society
- BCKDF – BC Knowledge Development Fund
- CCSRI - Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute
- CFI – Canada Foundation for Innovation
- CGS - Canada Graduate Scholarships
- CHRP - Collaborative Health Research Partnership
- CIHR – Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- CRC – Canada Research Chair
- CRD - Collaborative Research and Development
- CREATE - Collaborative Research and Training Experience
- CRM - Centre de recherches mathematiques
- CUFA - Confederation of University Faculty Associations
- HFSP – Human Frontiers of Science Program
- IDRC – International Development Research Centre
- I2I – Idea-to-Innovation
- IF - Innovation Fund
- JELF - John R. Evans Leaders Fund
- JSPS – Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- 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
- NFRF - New Frontiers in Research Fund
- NIH - National Institutes of Health (USA)
- NOI – Notice of Intent [to apply for a grant] (equivalent to registration)
- NRCan – Natural Resources Canada
- NRSA - National Research Service Award (NIH Postdoctoral Fellows Program)
- NSERC – Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- PDF - Postdoctoral Fellow
- PIMS - Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences
- PRF - Petroleum Research Fund
- PWIAS - Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies
- RTI - Research Tools & Instruments
- SAP - Subatomic Physics
- SOI - Statement of Interest
- SSHRC - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
