This workshop for UBC PDFs provides an overview of effective grant writing and outlines keys for success. Following a presentation of general grant writing skills by Dr. Ross MacGillivray, attendees will break out into groups specific to CIHR, SSHRC or NSERC applications. Each group features faculty facilitators from these respective areas, offering tips and strategies to help you secure funding.

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About the presenter:

Ross T.A. MacGillivray, Ph.D.

Dr. MacGillivray is currently Vice Dean Academic Affairs in the Faculty of Medicine and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at U.B.C., a member of the Scientific and Research Staff in the Division of Hematological Pathology at the Vancouver General Hospital and a Consultant in Genetics and Health at the Child and Family Research Institute of the BC Children’s Hospital. Dr. MacGillivray was also the founding Director of the UBC Centre for Blood Research (www.cbr.ubc.ca) until he stepped down in 2008.

He has been the recipient of several awards including the Ayerst Award of the Canadian Biochemistry Society and a UBC Killam Research Prize, a Killam Teaching Prize and a Killam Senior Fellowship. He received the 2006 Genome BC Award for Scientific Excellence presented by BC Biotech.