Queen’s Well being Sciences, in partnership with Southeastern Ontario Educational Medical Group (SEAMO), is worked up to announce that collectively they’re investing near $10 million to strengthen well being analysis at Queen’s. The investments goal to develop analysis capability, appeal to world-class expertise, help early-career researchers, advance innovation and discovery, and assist enhance competitiveness in exterior peer-reviewed funding competitions.
There are a selection of actions this funding will help, together with: new analysis chairs, awards to incentivize and help early profession researchers in reaching success of their grant purposes, and elevated workers to help researchers. It’s going to broaden mentorship alternatives throughout the college and bolster its Tier 2 analysis institutes: Translational Institute of Medication; Centre for Neuroscience; Well being Providers and Coverage Analysis Institute, and Worldwide Centre for the Development of Neighborhood-Based mostly Rehabilitation. Collectively, these initiatives goal to reinforce grant competitiveness, appeal to high expertise, and speed up discoveries that make a distinction in well being care and affected person outcomes.
“The Dean’s Analysis Stimulus Initiative and SEAMO investments will assist help our individuals, construct capability for progress, and produce new concepts to life,” says Stephen Scott, Vice-Dean, Analysis, Queen’s Well being Sciences. “This may permit researchers to essentially give attention to the work they do by providing the vital help wanted to assist appeal to new funding and expertise.”
Past boosting analysis, this analysis progress technique will enrich the coed studying expertise, and strengthen relationships with the college’s hospital and well being system companions. A wholesome analysis ecosystem can also carry vital tools and alternatives for enhanced affected person care.
“We’re grateful to the Provost, Vice-Principal Analysis, and SEAMO whose help was invaluable to bringing this initiative to life,” says Stephen Vanner, Interim Dean, Queen’s Well being Sciences and Director, Faculty of Medication. “I’m extraordinarily happy we are able to spend money on the way forward for analysis at QHS so we are able to hold making an influence on the well being of our sufferers, drive innovation, and create a greater analysis setting for future generations of well being professionals and scientists.”
This funding aligns with the Principal’s Bicentennial Imaginative and prescient to solidify Queen’s as a number one research-intensive college; one that draws and retains the most effective expertise from around the globe. The primacy of well being analysis underpins Queen’s imaginative and prescient and mission to assist remedy the world’s most important and pressing challenges.
