News & Events


News & Events will be updated here and announced in LFS today as soon as we received them.
Please fell free to let us know (email us at lfs.research@ubc.ca ) if you find a good news/event that you’d like to share with your colleagues.


  • NSERC Presentation on EDI for Canadian university researchers
  • SSHRC Campus Visit: Town Hall with Director of Research Programs, Kate Hamilton Harding
  • Important Update to BREB COVID Safety Requirements
  • CIHR Reviewer in Training (RiT) program
  • NSERC CREATE Information Webinar for Prospective Applicants
  • Invitation: Genome Canada Hubs webinar Nov. 23 at 1 pm ET
  • Alliance Option 2 updates: funding limit increase and removal of application limits
  • Oct. 31 & Nov. 3 – Webinar: New partnering opportunities with PepsiCo and Bayer for academics and startups
  • UBC RDM Strategy Project – Strategy Draft Request for Feedback
  • CIHR Reviewer in Training Opportunity for Early Career Researchers
  • Contribution Rate Changes to the Extraordinary Expense Fund (Policy FM7) Effective July 1, 2022
  • Fall 2022 CIHR Project Grant Webinar and Early Consultations
  • SPARC NSERC Alliance Grant Information Session
  • Lab2Market NSERC Info Session
  • NSERC funding opportunities to support National Quantum Strategy
  • Research Security Workshop Series
  • Lab2 Market Oceans (Canada’s Ocean Supercluster)
  • Genomic Applications Partnership Program Information Session
  • Update to Alliance Option 2 cost-sharing ratio
  • Climate Connections e@UBC-Foresight events for researchers and early stage cleantech: Nov 24 Agtech; Dec 8 Biocircular Economy