To help with planning for the 2017 Fall Grant season, please consult the table below for the upcoming, major CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC operating grant competition deadlines. More information about the specific competitions can be obtained from the McMaster contacts listed below.
The Faculty of Science is pleased to announce the post-doctoral projects to be funded under the Faculty of Science Research Fellows program. The Research Fellows call was intended to provide direct support to develop and nurture strategic areas of research strength and potential within the Faculty. Eleven proposals were submitted and four projects recommended for funding.
These projects are:
Alex Adronov, Chemistry & Chemical Biology, and collaborator, Yingfu Li, Department of Biochemistry, cross-appointed to Chemistry and Chemical Biology. Development of Chemical Sensors Based on Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Conjugates with Aptamers
Nicholas Bock, Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, and collaborator, Dr. Sheila Singh, Surgery and Biochemistry, Faculty of Health Science. Personalizing Medicine with Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Paul McNicholas, Mathematics & Statistics. Detecting Suspicious Online Behaviour by Clustering Big Data
Aimee Nelson, Kinesiology, and collaborators Michael Noseworthy, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Margaret Fahnestock, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, Faculty of Health Sciences. Discovering the mechanisms that mediate exercise-induced neural plasticity
The Faculty of Science is pleased to launch a Call for Faculty of Science Research Fellows. The Faculty plans to provide matching funding for up to 4 post-doctoral positions with the goal to develop emerging interdisciplinary areas of strength. Full information and the application form template can be found here.
Complete application packages must be submitted to Seanna-Lin Brodie-Keys, brodies@mcmaster.ca (electronically; pdf format preferred). Applications are due by December 2, 2016 at 2 pm.
To help with planning for the Fall Grant season, please consult the table below for the upcoming, major NSERC and SSHRC competition deadlines. More information about the specific competitions can be obtained from the McMaster contacts listed below.