Happy Holidays from the ORT

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HIGHLIGHTS (Scroll down for more events & opportunities)

How to Gain Professional Experience By Getting Involved
Upskill: a workshop for graduate students and postdocs
November 16, 4:00 PM | Register

GMCA: Beginner Case Competition for Trainees
Apply by November 14 | Information & Application
*Information session TODAY at 6:30 PM

Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship
Apply by November 21 | Information & Application

*To share upcoming events or opportunities with the UHN research community, please fill out this form or email ort.admin@uhnresearch.ca.

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Upskill: How to Gain Professional Experience by Getting Involved
November 16 | 4:00 - 5:00 PM

The ORT invites you to a panel Q&A and information sharing session on how to gain professional experience by getting involved. Experienced graduate students and postdocs will share their expertise and insights to help you make the most of your time at UHN.

This is a hybrid event. For details and to register, see here!

Level Up Your Professional Skills
November 28 | 3:00 - 4:00 PM

Join the Committee of Research Professionals @ UHN (RP@UHN) for a session where members of the UHN Research community will share tips on:

How to use LinkedIn to effectively network
General tools for project management and to assist your day-to-day research activities

EVENTS

CoBE Training Session: Bioinformatics Simplified
November 10 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM

The Computational and Bench Scientist Ecosystem (CoBE) team at UHN is hosting an introductory workshop for students and postdocs. This session will cover the basics of how CoBE can help you quickly find and execute useful bioinformatics software for your research. Register here!

PM Virtual Seminar Series
November 10 | 4:00 - 5:00 PM

Speaker: Dr. Himisha Beltran, MD

Talk Title: Lineage Plasticity in Prostate Cancer Resistance

Click here to join the seminar virtually on Teams

Beginner Case Competition for Trainees
Apply by November 14th

Whether you are beginning to explore management consulting as a career path or currently in the process of recruiting for a firm, case competitions are a fantastic opportunity to develop your collaborative problem-solving skills.

To learn more about this opportunity, check out the GMCA website here.

15th Annual Brain Injury Conference
February 10 | Early bird registration ends January 6 - Apply now

Join the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute (TRI) for an opportunity to learn about innovation, interventions and rehabilitation across the spectrum of brain injury. This event will bring together the clinical, research and legal communities to network, learn and share research, clinical practice and personal experience in Brain Injury.

Learn more and apply here.

OPPORTUNITIES

Opportunity: Roche Informatics
*Apply now

The “Data & Analytics - Computational Science” section in Roche Informatics is looking for interdisciplinary scientists with strong experience in computational biology to perform scientific data analyses in partnership with Genentech Research and Early Development (gRED).

For more information, review the job description here or contact Musa Ahmed at musa.ahmed@roche.com

Funding Opportunity: Eric and Wendy Schmidt Postdoctoral Fellowship
Application due Nov 21 | 5:00 PM

This Fellowship aims to fund research and provide training in AI and related computational skills. Applicants must hold a degree in a natural sciences or engineering discipline and be associated with at least one primary supervisor with a status or budgetary appointment at the University of Toronto.

Learn more and apply here.

Michener Insitute: Imaging Informatics Certificate Program
*Apply by November 8th

Applications are now open for Michener’s Imaging Informatics Certificate Program. The program incorporates 4 online theoretical courses and a 4-week, full-time practicum; study on your own time and complete the online portion in only 12 months! Come join the first and only Imaging Informatics program in Canada that offers hands-on practical experience!

Deadline to apply is Nov 18, 2022. Course starts on Jan 9, 2023.

Learn more and apply here or email ce@michener.ca for details.

EUROIMMUN Internship and Awards Program
Apply by December 20th

The medical diagnostics company EUROIMMUN is launching an internship and awards program to support graduate students who aspire to be clinician scientists or medical diagnosis researchers.

The internship will consist of 2 to 3 months at EURIMMUN Canada or 2 to 4 weeks at EUROIMMUN Germany (in-person) doing specific EUROIMMUN diagnostic instruments training. This internship can be done virtually for some courses.

Learn more and apply here.

COMMUNITY

Every month UHN STEM Pathways recognizes the outreach work of one our volunteers. For October, we acknowledge the contributions of Matheus Saraiva de Morais.
Matheus was part of an exciting panel held for World Heart Day. He facilitated an activity where youth learned how to tie a surgical knot from their homes. This activity has since been viewed on YouTube by over 400 people!

*To share your achievements with the UHN research community please fill out this form or email ort.admin@uhnresearch.ca.

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