Applications are now open for our 2021 Scholar and Research Trainee competitions.
As MSFHR’s flagship funding programs, the Scholar and Research Trainee awards provide funding to support BC’s next generation of health researchers in advancing science, addressing health priorities, and improving the health of British Columbians.
MSFHR Scholar awards help BC researchers build leading-edge health research programs, train the next generation of scientists, and make significant contributions to their field. Scholar awards provide salary support to early-career researchers, allowing them to dedicate 75 per cent of their time to health research activities.
MSFHR Research Trainee awards support health researchers in training to build health research capacity and contribute to the success of BC’s health research landscape. Post-doctoral fellows or health professional researchers are provided with salary support through this award for dedicated research activities.
For 2020 MSFHR Scholar Dr. Mark Cembrowski, Assistant Professor at UBC’s Faculty of Medicine, an MSFHR award enabled him to hire four new lab members:
“The MSFHR Scholar Awards allows me to have invaluable, dedicated time to establish my laboratory’s research program,” says Dr. Cembrowski. “Critically, the research time I receive from my Scholar Award has allowed me to develop all of these research avenues simultaneously within the lab. This allows my laboratory to establish truly cutting-edge experimental and computational methodologies.”
As BC’s health research funding agency, MSFHR is committed to enabling responsive, relevant research in order to develop, retain, and attract the people whose research improves the health of British Columbians, address health system priorities, create jobs, and add to the knowledge economy.