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Find out what's going on at the ORT and around UHN!
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The Art of Grant Writing
The ORT is hosting a workshop with Life Sciences Editors on how to craft a one-page research statement for funding opportunities such as the CIHR Postdoctoral Fellowship and Canada Graduate Scholarships.
September 13, 1:00 PM | Zoom | More Information and Register
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Postdoc Appreciation Week: ORT Drop-in Sessions
The ORT is hosting a series of drop-in sessions to meet with trainees and postdoctoral researchers, answer questions, share resources, and provide a safe space for addressing issues.
September 18: KDT & PMCRT
September 21: TRI
September 22: Virtual
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UHN Postdoc Symposium: Celebrating Postdoc Excellence
The inaugural UHN Postdoc Symposium will celebrate the excellence and cutting edge research of postdoctoral researchers across UHN.
September 19, 12:30 PM | TRI 2-014 | More Information and Register
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Seeds of Science Podcast: Social Media Manager
The Seeds of Science Podcast team is looking for a Social Media Manager. The Seeds of Science Podcast was launched to connect more trainees and postdocs to learn about their diverse experiences, backgrounds, research and stores!
More Information and Apply |
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Searching MEDLINE: Finding the Evidence You Need
Finding evidence is an integral step of Evidence Based Practice. MEDLINE is a leading source for finding biomedical scholarly literature. This session will present theory and techniques for building effective search strategies; it will go over key concepts including searching by subject terms and keywords and applying Boolean operators.
September 13, 10:00 AM | More Information and Register
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Mark Rochon Distinguished Lecture Series: Brain Reorganization and Neural Plasticity in Paralympic Athletes
Join KITE for the Mark Rochon Distinguished Lecture Series for a talk by Dr. Kimitaka Nakazawa from the University of Tokyo. He will discuss brain recognition and neural plasticity in paralympic athletes.
September 18, 12:00 PM | TRI-UC 2nd floor Auditorium & Virtual | More Information
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Open Access Publishing: Connecting Ideas, Empowering Scholars
Join the UHN Nursing Speaker Series for a town hall discussion on open access publishing at UHN.
September 20, 1:00 PM | More Information and Register
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Princess Margaret Postdoc Town Hall
Join PM Research Director, Dr. Aaron Schimmer and ORT Director, Dr. Linda Penn for an open forum for all postdoctoral researchers at Princess Margaret. Register by September 15th @ 4PM.
September 21, 12:30 PM | PMH 7-605 | More Information and Register
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Info Session: Total Compensation Program
Join the Committee of Research Professionals @ UHN (RP@UHN) for a virtual information session with UHN's People & Culture Team to discuss everything employees should know about the total compensation program (TCP).
September 26, 1:30 PM | More Information and Register
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UHN Community of Practice
The Pride in Patient Engagement in Research (PiPER) initiative is hosting a Community of Practice to facilitate knowledge sharing in patient engagement in research. Carolyn Shimmin, a Patient and Public Engagement Lead at the George and Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation, will be sharing her experiences in the development of a patient engagement framework and trauma-informed approach to the University of Manitoba’s patient engagement strategy in health research.
September 27, 12:00 PM | More Information and Register
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Surgical Data Science and Augmentation of Surgical Performance
Join TIER for a discussion from Dr. Amin Madani on how deep learning for computer vision can be used to provide real-time guidance to surgeons to augment their performance.
October 4, 12:00 PM | More Information and Register
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Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships
The Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships program provides funding to the very best postdoctoral applicants, both nationally and internationally, who will positively contribute to the country's economic, social, and research-based growth.
Apply by September 20 | More Information and Apply
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Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research: Heart Failure Symposium
The Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research is hosting its 8th Heart Failure Symposium at the Toronto Reference Library where they will bring together researchers, clinicians, and engineers, to share the latest discoveries, insights, and innovations in cardiovascular science.
October 3 | More Information and Register
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CSMB Support for Graduate Student Activities
The Canadian Society of Molecular Biosciences will provide financial support to graduate student societies for activities related to biochemistry, molecular biology, or genetics for events such as scientific symposiums, conferences and career fairs or workshops.
Apply by October 15 | More Information
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The Dr. Daniel C. Andreae President's Awards
The Dr. Daniel C. Andreae President's Awards recognize and support students with demonstrated interest and capacity to shape the future of healthcare and healthcare work through education, research, and/or practice.
Apply by October 16 | More Information
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The University of Toronto Saturday Program
The Saturday Program is recruiting volunteers for their tutoring and mentorship program. This 10-week program runs from January to April 2024 on Saturdays at the U of T St. George Campus under the Faculty of Medicine.
Sign-up by October 23 | More Information and Sign-up
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Academic Authorship in the Life Sciences
The Research Quality Integration team is launching a new training program on Academic Authorship in the Life Sciences. Their team is looking for students, postdocs, and staff to participate in a pilot of the 2-hour interactive case discussion component. This is a great opportunity for anyone looking to contribute to UHN programming development and add to their CV.
Please email ort.admin@uhnresearch.ca if you are interested in volunteering.
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2023-24 CGS D Awards
The CGS D program supports and promotes research excellence in a wide variety of disciplines and broad fields of natural sciences and engineering, health and social sciences and humanities, including interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research.
Contact your research institute for internal deadlines | More Information and Apply
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Congratulations Robert Lao on the CIHR Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship!
Robert Lao is an MD-PhD student currently completing a PhD degree in the labs of Dr. Mansoor Husain at TGHRI and Dr. Osami Honjo at SickKids. Robert’s primary research focus is on developing and characterizing large animal models of pediatric cardiovascular surgery, and utilizing them to investigate cardioprotective agents.
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Share your accomplishments with us!
Have you won an award? Published a paper? Attended to a cool conference? Let us know by filling out the ORT highlight form here to be featured in an upcoming newsletter or on social media!
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Share a concern or idea with the ORT
We want to hear from you! Share your feedback and concerns here.
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For more information about upcoming events at the ORT and other events of interest check out the Event Calendar on our website!
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