Faculty of medicine learners are among the UBC recipients of funding from the Government of Canada’s three federal research granting agencies, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
A total of $275 million was invested in the latest cohort of scholarship and fellowship recipients.
These awards recognize and support the next generation of research at UBC and across Canada. Nearly 6,000 scholarships and fellowships have been awarded for research training, including 240 master’s students, and 125 doctoral students from UBC. The programs include:
- Canada Graduate Scholarships – Doctoral (CGS-D) and Master’s (CGS-M)
- Canada Graduate Scholarships – Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplements
- NSERC Postgraduate Scholarships – Doctoral
- SSHRC Doctoral Fellowships
Faculty of medicine recipients and their awards:
Canada Graduate Scholarships – Doctoral (CGS-D)
- Atul Aravindakshan, School of Population and Public Health
- Katherine Baillie, MD/PHD Program
- Andreea Bratu, School of Population and Public Health
- Matthew Budd, Experimental Medicine
- Ariene Cabantog, Medical Oncology
- Ace Chan, School of Population and Public Health
- Lianne Cho, MD/PHD Program
- Brett Collinge, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
- Liying Dai, Experimental Medicine
- Mia Frier, Department of Medical Genetics
- Mark Hamer, School of Biomedical Engineering
- Kate Huang, Experimental Medicine
- Kevin Jeffers, Department of Medical Genetics
- Cindy Lam, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
- Alexandra Lukey, School of Population and Public Health
- Naomi Potter, Experimental Medicine
- Karen Sauve, School of Population and Public Health
- Sepideh Soukhtehzari, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
- Li Qing Wang, MD/PHD Program
- Christine Wardell, Experimental Medicine
- Alexander Garner, Cell & Developmental Biology Program
- Kaitlin Sullivan, Neuroscience Program
- Maram Alkawaja Livermore, School of Population and Public Health
NSERC Postgraduate Scholarships – Doctoral SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship
- Adrienne Kinman, Neuroscience Program
- Jessica McDougall, Rehabilitation Sciences