When UK-based Wellcome Trust approached us to be a strategic partner in the new Research on Research Institute (RoRI), we seized the opportunity.
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New Article Unit: Health Research BC
26 research teams receive awards to foster collaboration and improve the uptake of evidence
Eighteen 2019 Convening & Collaborating (C2) awards and eight 2019 Reach awards have been awarded to teams across BC.
MSFHR funds nine BC health researchers moving innovations towards practical application
Nine BC health researchers have been funded in MSFHR’s third Innovation to Commercialization (I2C) competition.
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Intersecting Visions: An Interview with Wendy Hurlburt, President and CEO of LifeSciences BC
Interview with Wendy Hurlburt, President and CEO of Life Sciences BC. Continue reading “Intersecting Visions: An Interview with Wendy Hurlburt, President and CEO of LifeSciences BC”
2019 HP-I awardees will unite patient care and research to improve the health of British Columbians
11 clinicians have been awarded funding in MSFHR’s 2019 Health Professional-Investigator (HP-I) competition.
Identifying Talent Through Funding Competitions
Valerie To, our director of research competitions discusses the evolution of our grant application processes from the early days of paper to today’s system and beyond.
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2019 Scholar and Research Trainees: MSFHR funds 55 outstanding health researchers
MSFHR has announced 55 award recipients (20 Scholars and 35 Research Trainees) from across BC.
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Partnering with the BC Schizophrenia Society Foundation to expand schizophrenia research
By partnering with organizations like the BC Schizophrenia Society, MSFHR is able to optimize provincial investment in health research and support more talented researchers than we could alone.
Evaluating our KT program so we can learn and improve
In 2018, MSFHR undertook an evaluation of our KT program to find out if it was having the desired impact and to inform future KT activities. The resulting evaluation report is now available.
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Gold Leaf prize winner Dr. Erin Michalak reflects on the power of community-based participatory research
Two-time MSFHR award recipient Dr. Erin Michalak has been honoured with a CIHR Gold Leaf Prize for her work founding CREST.BD.