Core Area
Research
Strategic Area
Collaborative research within the Faculty, across UBC, nationally, and with global peers
Goal Status
Complete
Achieved Goals
- Launched the 2023 Internal Seed Grant Program for Educational Leadership for projects of up to $6,000 (July 2023).
- Awarded the 2025 PERL Internal Seed Grant Program for Educational Leadership to support projects initiating new and innovative educational scholarships and SoTL projects: Jamie Yuen (PI): “Perceptions of Liability in Pharmacy Education: The Role of Practicum Experiences and Preceptor Role Modelling in Shaping Full Scope Practice Engagement and Professional Identity Formation” ($5,960); Neelam Dhaliwal (PI): “Beyond the Pass: Developing a Readiness Report Card” ($5,250).
- Launched the 2023 UBC Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences Internal Bridge Grant Program of up to $25,000. The program is aimed at enabling faculty members to obtain key preliminary and/or additional data required to make their grants more competitive in external funding competitions. This bridge funding opportunity targeted researchers whose past external peer-reviewed application was denied in a recent competition (within 2 years of the call). The spirit of this internal grant program was to provide assistance to principal investigators in greatest need (July 2023).
- Awarded the 2025 Internal Bridge Grant Stream to facilitate research activities such that it enhances the recipients’ chances of success in external funding applications: Adam Frankel (PI): “Molecular mechanism of PRMT2-dependent histone methylation” ($20,000); Brent Page (PI): “Optimizing BP170’s Activity as a Potential Breast Cancer Therapeutic Agent” ($20,000).
- Launched the 2025 UBC Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences Internal Novel Ideas Catalyst Funding Program of up to $25,000; grant program aimed to support collaboration and novel research ideas among research faculty. (July 2025).
- Awarded the 2025 Internal Novel Ideas Grant Stream to inspire high-risk, high-reward, and interdisciplinary research within the Faculty. Researchers were encouraged to think “outside of the box” and propose projects outside their established research programs through interdisciplinary collaborations to increase their success in external funding competitions: Shyh-Dar Li (PI): “A New Strategy to Deliver Antibodies Inside Leukemia Cells to Block an 'Undruggable' Cancer Driver” ($14,000); Miffy Cheng (PI): “Engineering G-quadruplex-guided RNA to modulate base editing” ($13,000); and Joel Finbloom (PI): “Repurposing Ineffective Antibiotics as Immunotherapy Adjuvants for the treatment and Immunization of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infections” ($13,000).