Michael Smith Health Research BC has launched the 2024 Research Trainee Award competition.
The Michael Smith Health Research BC Research Trainee Program is designed to attract, recognize, and support outstanding early career researchers who have recently completed a PhD, or are a health professional eligible for a fellowship (or equivalent) program by providing funding that helps protect time for health research activities.
Program Details
- Award amount
- $60,000 per year + allowance of $4,500 per year for research and travel
- Award term
- Up to 3 years
- This program is designed to:
- Provide salary support for talented post-doctoral or health professional researchers and develops their health research careers.
- Help post-doctoral researchers increase their, and their labs’, research productivity.
- Prepare post-doctoral researchers for successful careers in research, biotech, health policy and more.
- Eligibility:
- Have PhD and commit to a minimum of 75% of their time conducting research, or, be a health professional in active clinical service and commit to a minimum of 50% of time conducting research.
- Hold or be eligible to hold a post-doctoral fellowship position by the award start date, and for the duration of the award, at a BC institution that holds a memorandum of understanding with Health Research BC.
- Be within 6 years of achieving PhD, or, have been a health professional in active clinical service for 11 years or less, for the duration of the Health Research BC award.
- Not have held a previous Health Research BC post-doctoral fellowship award
- Evaluation Weighting Criteria:
- 20% Environment and Support
- 30% Applicant expertise and experience
- 50% Research Project
Key Dates
- LOI Deadline
- 12 December 2023 | 4:30pm PT
- Internal FoM Application Deadline
- 19 February 2024
- ApplyNet Application Deadline
- 23 February 2024 | 4:30pm
- Anticipated Start of Funding
- 1 September 2024
UBC Faculty of Medicine application process information can be found here
Full information including competition guidelines, instructions, slides from the webinar, and 2023 recipients, is available through Health Research BC here