Reach awards provide funding for teams of health researchers and research users to support the transfer, exchange and uptake of research evidence.
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34 post-doctoral fellows funded in MSFHR’s 2018 Research Trainee competition
34 Research Trainees to receive salary support as they establish their careers and train alongside more senior members of BC’s health research community.
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Lost in knowledge translation? Time to get strategic
Dr. Bev Holmes talks KT strategy and evaluation, and challenges funders to take a look at their KT activities for maximum impact.
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Plain-language summaries: A vital ingredient in knowledge translation
Iva Cheung outlines the importance of plain-language summaries and how they are key to effective knowledge translation.
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St. Paul’s Foundation donors support MSFHR Scholars conducting drug and addiction research
In partnership with St. Paul’s Foundation, we have co-funded four researchers studying HIV transmission, substance use among vulnerable populations, and ways to combat the opioid overdose crisis.
MSFHR-funded research identifies enzyme potentially responsible for skin blistering
2003 Scholar and 2017 I2C award recipient Dr. David Granville has identified an enzyme potentially responsible for skin blistering, and is developing an inhibitor to prevent and treat the condition.
MSFHR funds eight BC health researchers moving innovations towards practical application
Eight BC health researchers have been funded in MSFHR’s second Innovation to Commercialization competition.
It’s all about the evidence! Funders as research users
Gayle Scarrow explores how a funder can contribute to the science of KT.
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KT Encounters: Embedded scholarship – Views from the inside out
Dr. Sana Shahram shares how she found a way to bring her passion and expertise around health equity from academic theory to practical application.
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The implementation of evidence is a social change project, and we are in it together
Dr. Gen Creighton explores the parallels between the implementation of research evidence and the role of the research funder.