News and Announcements:
Addressing Pregnancy Questions About COVID-19 Vaccines
Dr. Deborah Money, Professor in the UBC Faculty of Medicine’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, addresses myths about COVID-19 vaccines’ impact on fertility. For more details, please visit news.ubc.ca.
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Immune Response to mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine Weaker Among Older Adults
A recent study by Simon Fraser University scientists Mark Brockman and Zabrina Brumme, and Dr. Marc Romney of Providence Health Care, found that older adults who received two doses of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine have a weaker immune response than younger adults. For more details, please visit sfu.ca.
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Convalescent Plasma Not Beneficial for Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19
A Canadian-led international study involving BC researchers has concluded convalescent plasma treatments do not benefit hospitalized patients with severe COVID-19. For more details, please visit ctvnews.ca.
Exploring the Broad Application Potential of mRNA Technology
Dr. Anna Blakney, Assistant Professor at the UBC School of Biomedical Engineering and Michael Smith Laboratories, speaks about the future of mRNA technology and BC’s biotech system. For more details, please visit news.ubc.ca.
Funding Opportunities:
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Canadian Institutes of Health Research Operating Grant: Addressing the Wider Health Impacts of COVID-19
This funding opportunity will enable rapid and timely research responding to the current and next phase of the wider impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada and around the globe. The maxiumum amount per grant that may be requested for clinical trials research is $1,000,000 over 2 years. All other types of research may request up to $500,000 per grant over 2 years.
Registration Deadline: October 18, 2021
For more details, please visit ResearchNet.
Resources for Investigators:
UBC Data Science & Health 2021: Impact and Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Data Science and Health Cluster (DASH) invites you to the 2nd annual Data Science and Health Conference. Building on momentum from last year’s Data Science and Health CPD event, this year’s theme will focus on Impact and Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Event date and time: November 9, 2021, 12:00 PM (PST)
For more information, please visit datascienceandhealth.ubc.ca. Registration is free for students and residents.
UBC Data Science and Health Cluster COVID-19 Metadata Commons
The UBC DASH COVID-19 Metadata Commons enables researchers to identify COVID-19-related datasets relevant to their research and expand their scope of analysis, as well as facilitate collaboration between research groups. For more information, please visit datascienceandhealth.ubc.ca.