Attention!! Application deadline is Friday, October 4, 2019
Catherine Eamer Cooke Memorial Fellowship
The purpose of the fund is to provide research support to a medical student, resident, or graduate student who is performing a supervised research project, in the Max Rady College of Medicine, related to the ear.
Each year, beginning in 2018-2019, the available annual interest from the fund will be used to award one fellowship to a student who:
(1) is enrolled full-time in either:
(i) the Undergraduate or Postgraduate Medical Education Program in the Max Rady College of Medicine, or
(ii) the Faculty of Graduate Studies in a Master's or doctoral program delivered by the Max Rady College of Medicine;
(2) has either:
(i) maintained good standing in the Undergraduate or Postgraduate Medical Education Program, or
(ii) achieved a minimum degree grade point average of 3.5 (or equivalent) in the Faculty of Graduate Studies based on the previous 60 credit hours of study;
(3) will be performing a supervised research project related to the ear;
(4) has demonstrated outstanding interest or commitment to ear research.
Candidates will be required to submit an application (maximum 250 words) addressed to the Department of Otolaryngology, Attention Dr. Paul Kerr, GB421-820 Sherbrook St., Winnipeg, MB R3A 1R9 which includes the following information: the name of the award, the name of the applicant, the title of the research project, the objective and methods of the research, the research project budget; and a supporting letter from the faculty supervisor which includes a statement about how the student meets criterion (4) above. Please email your application to AwardsUGME(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:AwardsUGME@umanitoba.ca> or drop off your paper copy to 260 Brodie (Attention Jen Parker). All applications must be received by end of day on Friday, October 4, 2019.
Research projects should be completed within a year of the award and should have appropriate ethics committee approvals.
Jen Parker
Program Coordinator, UGME Awards
Max Rady College of Medicine | Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
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REQUEST FOR NOMINATIONS
Establishment of the Hilary Kaufman Lerner Memorial Fund
and
Initiation of the HKL Fund Grants Program for Student Research-Trainees in the area of multiple sclerosis and related demyelinating disorders
The Fund
The Fund has been established in memory of Hilary Kaufman Lerner who died in 2016 of complications associated with a decades-long, progressively debilitating, course of multiple sclerosis that she bore with courage and unstinting determination. Friends and family have contributed to an endowment fund to provide grants to student research trainees in aid of research and advanced studies on multiple sclerosis and related demyelinating disorders.
The Grants Program
• The HKL Fund Grants Program is designed to assist grant recipients to defray out-of-pocket expenses incurred by them in undertaking his or her activities in research or advanced studies. These may include expenses related to special: special materials and supplies; fees of various kinds (e.g. access to scholarly materials, courses beyond the usual course of study; registration at scientific conferences).
• Granted funds may also be used to defray travel expenses incurred in attending conferences at which the student trainee will be making a presentation; or in visiting other centres to learn a new technique or collaborate.
• To be eligible for grants from the Fund, student research-trainees must be undertaking or planning to undertake research or advanced studies under the aegis of one or more Colleges of the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Manitoba. Note: College of Dentistry students must be nominated by a faculty member or supervisor from the College of Medicine, Nursing Pharmacy or Rehabilitation Sciences.
• The areas of research and study involved may, without limitation, include phenomena at the molecular, cellular, clinical, population or health system level
• Candidacy for a grant from the Fund will be based on nomination by a faculty member or supervisor who is an academic member of a College or Colleges under whose aegis the nominee’s research or studies are to take place, or are already taking place.
• Nominations require the written approval or endorsement of the relevant Colleges
Nominations for a grant from the fund, tenable as of January 2020, are being requested. Nominations should be submitted no later than October 25, 2019 to Dr. Jude Uzonna at:
Jude Uzonna, DVM, PhD Professor, Immunology, and Associate Dean (Research), Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Room A203 Chown Building University of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3E 0T6 204-789-3898 resmedgrants(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:resmedgrants@umanitoba.ca>
Jessica Fraser
Assistant to Dr. Hope Anderson,
Vice-Dean,
Rady Facutly of Health Sciences Graduate Studies,
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Winnipeg, MB R3E 0T6
Phone: (204) 789-3402
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