Founded in 1959 by pediatric neurologist Dr. Norman Auckland, the BC Epilepsy Society is dedicated to serving British Columbians living with epilepsy, and their families.
Since 2006, the BC Epilepsy Society has partnered with MSFHR to jointly fund four BC-based epilepsy researchers ranging from the PhD to post-doctoral levels. The benefits of this partnership are highlighted in this video profile of 2011 MSFHR/BC Epilepsy Society Research Trainee Dr. Stuart Cain.
Previous research grants funded by the BC Epilepsy Society have supported both population health research and basic science. The society is open to all types of research that would improve the lives of the 40,000 British Columbians living with a seizure disorder.
More information on funded researchers and all of the BC Epilepsy Society’s programs and services is available at www.bcepilepsy.com.
AllerGen NCE Inc. (AllerGen), the Allergy, Genes and Environment Network, is a national research network funded by Industry Canada through the Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) Program.
AllerGen was established in response to the fact that one in three Canadians is living with allergic disease. Since inception, AllerGen has been supporting excellence in research and fostering commercialization, social innovation and knowledge mobilization that will enable Canadians to better prevent, treat and manage allergic diseases and asthma. This national network is made up of leading Canadian allergy, asthma, anaphylaxis and immune diseases experts with research expertise across the spectrum of biomedical, social and natural sciences. These researchers are working in trans-disciplinary and multi-sectoral teams, with national and international collaborators and stakeholder and research partner organizations. They are addressing gaps in knowledge and seizing new opportunities in diagnostics, therapeutics, health care, public health, ethics, policy, clinical care and patient education. AllerGen is also training the next generation of researchers, innovators and clinician-scientists, while collaboratively working to reduce the morbidity, mortality and socio-economic impacts of allergy, asthma, anaphylaxis and related immune diseases.
Brain Canada plays a unique and invaluable role as a national convenor of the community of those who support and advance brain research.
A greater understanding of how the brain works will contribute to the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of disorders of the brain, thereby improving the health outcomes of Canadians.
Brain Canada’s main areas of focus are fundraising, granting and strengthening the brain research community.
Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI), a world leader in translational health research, is the research body of Vancouver Coastal Health Authority.
VCHRI includes three of BC’s largest academic and teaching health sciences centres — Vancouver General Hospital, UBC Hospital and GF Strong Rehabilitation Centre — as well as many other hospitals and public health agencies across Vancouver Coastal Health. VCHRI is academically affiliated with UBC Faculty of Medicine and is one of Canada’s top-funded research centres receiving between $80 million and $100 million in research funding annually. Over 1,500 personnel are engaged in a variety of research centres, programs and evolving research areas.
Praxis is a Canadian-based not-for-profit organization that leads global collaboration in spinal cord injury research, innovation, and care. Praxis advances SCI research and innovation worldwide through networks of international researchers, health care professionals, clinical trials, entrepreneurs, investors, and PLEX (people with lived experience of SCI). Praxis is part of the life-changing work done in the life sciences sector, and plays a key role in the development of new technologies and treatments for those living with SCI. Our vision is a world without paralysis after SCI.
With the vision of achieving gender equity and sexual health for all by driving collaborative and cutting-edge research, evidence-based policy, and clinical/community practice in BC, Canada and globally, CGSHE is network of interdisciplinary researchers and intersectoral leaders at University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University. Working across community, clinical, and policy realms, its faculty leads community-based population health research and global policy research to address gender and sexual health (in)equities in BC, Canada and around the world.
For over a decade, CGSHE has been conducting research with youth, young women, LGBTQ/2S+ communities, racialized migrant and refugee communities, urban Indigenous women and Two-Spirit people, gender-based violence survivors, and communities that are over-policed and surveilled, including parents in poverty, sex workers, people living with HIV, and individuals precariously housed or incarcerated.
The scope of its work ranges from social epidemiology and public policy to interdisciplinary, mixed methods and social science research. CGSHE researchers share a common passion for building evidence to meet the highest scientific and ethical standards to address systemic barriers and advance gender equity and sexual health and well being.
VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation is Vancouver Coastal Health’s primary philanthropic partner, raising funds for specialized adult health services and research for all British Columbians.
The Foundation partners with donors to drive innovation and sustainable health care at VGH & UBC Hospital, GF Strong Rehab Centre, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute and Vancouver Community Health Services.
Thanks to our generous donors, St. Paul’s Foundation supports patients, residents, caregivers, and families at St. Paul’s Hospital, other Providence Health Care sites across BC, and at Providence Living’s long-term care homes. Each year, our donors make it possible to deliver compassionate, innovative care to tens of thousands of people – from newborn babies and their moms to seniors living in long-term care.
St. Paul’s Foundation is a registered charity that raises funds for capital projects, enhanced patient care, equipment needs, teaching, and research and innovation to support compassionate care and improve the lives of patients and residents across BC.
St. Paul’s Hospital is a world-leading academic health science centre located in the heart of downtown Vancouver, British Columbia. Through ethical and relationship-based fundraising, the Foundation enables St. Paul’s Hospital to be at the forefront of exceptional care and innovation.
St. Paul’s Foundation also partners with Health Research BC to co-fund research via the Centre for Heart Lung Innovation and the BC Centre on Substance Use.
The Centre for Advancing Health Outcomes (Advancing Health) is a multidisciplinary health research centre based at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver and was founded to pursue excellence in research through the rigorous evaluation, interpretation, and dissemination of health outcomes information. The Centre is jointly affiliated with Providence Research and the University of British Columbia (UBC) Faculty of Medicine. Learn more at https://www.advancinghealth.ubc.ca/.
ICORD is a world-leading health research centre focused on spinal cord injury.
Its researchers are dedicated to the development and translation of more effective strategies to promote prevention, functional recovery and improved quality of life after spinal cord injury.
Located at Vancouver General Hospital in the Blusson Spinal Cord Centre, ICORD is supported by UBC Faculty of Medicine and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute.
