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Find out what's going on at the ORT and around UHN!
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Applications open! OSOTF Unilever/Lipton Graduate Scholarship
Deadline: June 24
On behalf of the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine, the ORT is pleased to administer the 2021-2022 OSOTF Graduate Fellowship to support research trainees at UHN. These fellowships are awarded to graduate students, registered with U of T’s Faculty of Medicine, on the basis of financial need and academic excellence who are studying within the neurosciences field at UHN.
Fellowship instructions and application forms here.
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Research Professionals Community Mixer
June 16 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM
The Committee of Research Professionals (RP@UHN) is holding a UHN networking event for research staff across the institutes, including but not limited to technicians, lab managers and research associates.
At this event, RPs are welcome to drop in for a coffee break, meet your fellow UHN research professionals, learn about different roles and help build your LinkedIn profile. There will also be a Q&A with the community plus a couple of fun activities.
Register here. Attendees will receive a free gift sponsored by Cedarlane!
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Bench to Business: Launching your own Healthcare Venture
June 28 | 3:00 - 4:30 PM
Join us for a Panel and Q & A to learn about how to translate your research into a healthcare venture and the resources available to help you. Learn from:
Soror Sharifpoor, PhD, Director of Strategy & Translation at the Translational Biology and Engineering Program
Mark Taylor, P. Eng., MSc, MBA , Director, Technology Development & Commercialization (TDC) at UHN
Vivian Cheung, MSc, Program Coordinator for the Health Innovation Hub
Joseph Ferenbok, PhD, Associate Director, Health Innovation Hub; Director, Translational Research Program
Speaker information and register here.
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Food with Friends: Summer Student Social
Every Friday | 12:00 - 1:00 PM
An informal lunchtime gathering to connect and network with other summer students at UHN Research!
Join us on June 11 to learn with Dr. Alya Heirali, postdoctoral fellow at Toronto General Hospital Research Institute!
Register here to join. Registrants will receive weekly event reminders and Zoom links.
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CONGRATULATIONS to:
Dr. Mehran Karimzadeh, postdoctoral research fellow in Dr. Bo Wang's lab and PhD alum of Dr. Michael Hoffman's lab, on receiving a CIHR Postdoctoral Fellowship!
To share your achievements with the UHN research community, please email ort.admin@uhnresearch.ca.
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Training Seeking Advice:
A UHN trainee is seeking help from someone with experience using QIAGEN CLC Genomics Workbench. Their data is microRNA sequencing and they want to analyze the data with CLC to find differentially expressed microRNAs between groups.
If you have experience in this area and would be willing to offer support please email ort.admin@uhnresearch.ca and we will connect you.
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Basic Bike Maintenance
June 9 | 12:00 - 1:00 PM
June is Bike Month and to celebrate, you are invited to join a bike maintenance webinar. Topics include safety checks, pumping your tires, tightening your brakes, lubricating your chain and ensuring your bike is the right fit.
For more information, email uhncycling@uhn.ca
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Virtual ProPride: Beyond Inclusion Towards Belonging
June 9 | 12:00 - 1:30 PM
UHN's LGBTQ2S+ Committee invites you to attend a free virtual event. This virtual panel discussion hosted by Pride at Work Canada will look at how we move from a discussion about inclusion to creating a sense of belonging in our workplaces. Attendees will learn how to create spaces of belonging for LGBTQ2+ employees where they don’t just feel tolerated, but are actively celebrated.
More information and register here.
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S2BN Virtual Career Cafe: Careers at STEMCELL Technologies
June 9 | 6:00 - 7:30 PM
Join the Science to Business Network (S2BN) for an exciting Virtual Career Café discussing Careers at STEMCELL Technologies. Discover the variety of career paths for people with scientific backgrounds in a biotechnology company and learn about STEMCELL Technologies, Canada's largest biotechnology company, and what it's like to work there.
Register here.
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Thriving Post Covid: Lessons Learned from a Period of Challenge
June 9 | 6:00 - 7:30 PM
In this interdisciplinary discussion, four graduate students at different stages of their degrees will share their research and findings about thriving post Covid. Their insights, shared in a dynamic and interactive conversation with Dr. Rachael Cayley, come from the investigations they have conducted and the initiatives they have promoted and/or founded over the past year and more.
Register here.
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How to Write & Understand Land Acknowledgements
June 10 | 3:30 - 5:00 PM
St. Michael's Research Student Association invites you to learn how to write and understand Land Acknowledgements and Reflections, with University of Toronto Indigenous Training Coordinator, John Croutch.
Register here.
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Hands-on Project Management for Research Workshop
June 11 | 10:00 - 12:00 PM
This workshop provides participants with hands-on experience applying the three light-touch project management tools that have been adapted for research. Fictional examples, based on real U of T projects, are used to show how the tools can be applied to a variety of research projects. Participants are provided with modifiable tools and templates in Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel to help them start using the project management tools during the workshop.
Register here.
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Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship 2021 Information Session
June 15 | 12:00 PM
The Office of the Vice Dean, Research & Graduate Education is hosting a lunch and learn Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship information session on How to Write a Successful Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship Application for U of T Temerty Faculty of Medicine postdoctoral researchers.
Speaker information and register here.
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SickKids Research Integrity Symposium Series - Research Integrity in Academic Publishing
June 16 | 10:00 AM
Increasingly, concerns about bad science spreading in the academic literature are being voiced. Traditionally, journal peer review is considered one of the ways to prevent this, maintaining academic standards and acting as science’s most prominent form of self-regulation. However, the system's effectiveness is increasingly called into question. During this interactive session, Dr. Serge Horbach will explore how bad science spreads through the academic literature and what we, as readers, authors, and reviewers in our daily practices can do to prevent that.
Register here.
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Two Part-Time Research Assistant Positions Available
Applications due June 11
The Frictions of Futurity and Cure in Transplant Medicine: Re-Thinking Central Challenges Through Feminist/Crip Science and Technology Studies Project seeks a doctoral-level and a masters-level trainee research assistant. Research Assistants will work closely with the project team assisting with tasks such as literature review, ethnographic and arts-based data collection and data analysis, the development and dissemination of publications, and contributing to knowledge mobilization through project events (seminars, workshops, salons, symposia).
More information and apply here.
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Mitacs Elevate Postdoctoral Fellowships
Applications due June 30
Mitacs Elevate is a postdoctoral fellowship with an exclusive professional development curriculum component.
Elevate fellows receive:
- $55,000 minimum annual stipend/salary
- An exclusive professional development curriculum valued at $7,500 per year
- Proposal assistance, including application feedback, from Mitacs representatives
- Certificate of completion after receipt of their exit survey and final report submission
More information and apply here.
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