Funding, Jobs and Other Announcements:

Jobs and Other Opportunities:

• Post-doc opportunity at Harvard's Division of Genetics and Genomics: Postdoctoral Position at Boston Children's Hospital.
• MITACS - Elevate: 2 years fixed at $60,000/year with $30,000 from the partner and $30,000 from Mitacs - Postdocs must be named - Open to research collaborations with companies and eligible non-profits in Canada - Deadline for Mitacs submission of complete applications with all signatures: February 10, 2021. - If applying, make sure to send Noha Gerges (ngerges@mitacs.ca) all application documents by January 20th at the latest.
• Postdoctoral Position in Genomics of Skin Cancer: The Shain lab is seeking to fill an open position for a postdoctoral scholar.
• Canadian COVID Genomic Network (CanCOGeN) will lead a nation-wide Host Genome Sequencing Initiative within this framework to sequence genomes of 10,000 Canadians to help understand the genomic architecture of the host response to SARSCov-2.  - The Genetic Epidemiology Committee of the CGen HostSeq project (http://www.cgen.ca/project-overview) is now looking to build a team of talented data scientists to work together to identify genetic variation that contributes to SARS-Cov-2 infection, susceptibility, and COVID-19 disease severity.
• Graduate Internship Program 2020/21.

-Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies is expanding the Graduate Internship Program (normally known as the Doctoral Internship Program) to allow for in-course internship opportunities for both doctoral and Master’s students in an effort to increase opportunities for professional development under the current circumstances.

• Research Impact Project - Research assistant contract position

-The research impact evaluation project is part of a broader organizational initiative aimed at evaluating the impact of Heart & Stroke’s research investments.

-With guidance from the project lead and the Director, Planning, Evaluation & Impact, the research assistant will assist with mapping the “path to impact” for 2-3 areas of progress in heart and brain health and gather evidence on H&S’s role in the path.

• Medical Genetics Residency Position

-A fully funded “contingent particulier” position is available in the McGill Medical Genetics residency program.

• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowships

-A limited number of promising early-career researchers are given the opportunity to conduct research in Japanese universities and in designated research institutions and laboratories.

• Current Positions @ BeMo Academic Consulting

- BeMo has an immediate need for a top caliber PhD (preferred if PhD in life sciences) as an academic consultant.

• Cole Foundation Fellowships 2021-2023

-The Cole Foundation is offering fellowships to Clinical Fellows (holders of a medical degree), Post-Doctoral and Doctoral students to promote research in pre-leukemia, leukemia, lymphoma and other leukemia related diseases in children and young adults as well as the development of clinical care for patients affected by these diseases.

Awards - Call for Nominations:

• Graduate Mobility Awards 2020-2021: The 2020-21 Graduate Mobility Award applications are now open under special conditions in an effort to increase opportunities for research collaboration for students under the current circumstances. Deadline: July 15, 2021
• Call for nominations — GPS Awards: The Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies is calling for nominations for awards for administrative and support staff as well as for faculty members. Deadline: