We are excited to announce that there were four successful proposals in the Translational Science and Medicine stream from the second round of the Faculty of Medicine Academic Renewal competition, focused on the recruitment of junior faculty in the areas of data science, translational science and medicine, and virtual/rural and remote health.
The four successful proposals for new early career faculty positions include:
Translational Science and Medicine
- Psychiatry, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute: Translational neuropsychiatric research in high-complexity psychiatric youth with depression
- Pediatrics, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute: Pediatric psychology research to accelerate evidence-based clinical pain care
- Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, BC Cancer Research Institute: Translational lung cancer research
- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Edwin S.H. Leong Health Aging Program: Biochemistry and/ or molecular biology of aging and aging clocks
In addition to the four successful proposals in translational science and medicine, there were also two successful proposals in Data Science in Virtual/Rural and Remote Health:
Data Science
- Radiology, Pediatrics, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute, Centre for Heart Lung Innovation: Medical physics, imaging science and data analytics
Virtual/Rural and Remote Health
- Medicine, Southern Medical Program, School of Population and Public Health, Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management: Implementation Science within isolated communities