External Research Awards & Fellowships

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Award for medicinally relevant chemistry

Chemist David Vocadlo has received the Boehringer Ingelheim Research Excellence award from the Canadian Society of Chemistry for research excellence in medicially relevant chemistry. [learn more]

SFU VP Research Wins Another Chemistry Honour

SFU's Vice-President, Research B. Mario Pinto has received the Alfred Bader award from the Canadian Society of Chemistry for excellence in organic chemistry research. [learn more]

SFU Chemist Wins Award from American Chemical Society

Chemist David Vocadlo of the Faculty of Science is the 2013 recipient of the Horace S. Isbell Award from the American Chemical Society. [learn more]

HIV Researcher Wins Career Achievement Award

Professor Robert Hogg of the Faculty of Health Sciences is the 2013 recipient of the Career Achievement Award from CUFA BC. [learn more]

REM prof wins Pew Fellowship

Anne Salomon of SFU Resource and Environmental Management has been awarded a 2013 Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation. [learn more]

SFU Spinoff's Winning LIVE Technology

Lungpacer is an early-stage medical device company based on the nerve cuff research of Biomedical Physiology professor Andy Hoffer. [learn more]

V.-P., Research Wins Organic Chemistry Award

Dr. Pinto's outstanding contributions over three decades in synthesis, conformational analysis, NMR and molecular modeling protocols have earned him a place among Canada’s leading chemical biologists. [learn more]

Luxury Wine Marketing Research

SFU Business professor Leyland Pitt has co-authored an award-winning article on luxury wine visibility in social media. [learn more]

Pavol Hell a 2012 SIAM Fellow

Professor Pavol Hell of Computing Science is among a distinguished group of members of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) who were selected by their peers for the 2012 Class of Fellows. [learn more]

“Rising Star” Receives Sloan Fellowship

Alexandra Fedorova is among 126 outstanding Canadian and American researchers to receive a prestigious $50,000 Sloan Fellowship in 2012, in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions. [learn more]

Improving Public Health in Mongolia

The Minister of Health of Mongolia has presented SFU global health professor Craig Janes with a medal for his work to develop the country’s public heath system. [learn more]

Emerging Leader in Morphological Sciences

Julian Guttman has been recognized as an “emerging leader in resolving the molecular basis of host-pathogen interactions, a field with profound potential to limit the burden of human disease,” by the American Association of Anatomists. [learn more]

Fostering Musical Engagement in Youth

Dr. Susan O’Neill visited the University of Melbourne’s Conservatorium of Music in the Spring of 2012 under a Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellowship. [learn more]

Order of BC to SFU Communications Prof

Professor Peter Anderson will receive B.C.'s highest honour for his many national and international contributions in the communications sector. [learn more]

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External research award deadlines*

*Does not include discipline-specific or non-research-related awards that are normally handled within their respective departments/faculties. To obtain assistance from the Vice-President, Research Office for the institutional nomination of an SFU researcher, please contact Melanie Monk at melaniem@sfu.ca or 778-782-7058.