Training at The James Hogg iCAPTURE Centre

Cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases are of critical importance to Canada; they impose a serious and growing burden upon Canadians, both in terms of human suffering and the associated economic impact. As we progress in our scientific approaches to counteract these deadly diseases, new principles of integrative pathobiology are emerging. The iCAPTURE Centre has a long and successful history in training of staff and students. Over the last 10 years alone, we have trained over 115 summer or co-op students, 50 graduate students, 145 post-doctoral fellows, and 8 visiting scientists on sabbatical leave. Over 60% of the students and fellows trained in this program now hold leading academic or industrial positions in their fields. The new equipment (much of which is unique in BC), coupled with our focus on clinically relevant research and our unequaled source of human biological samples, will provide a magnet for the brightest young scientists in Canada, and internationally. Skilled workforce produced by our program will amplify the socioeconomic impact of iCAPTURE by perpetuating the cycle of discovery.

Training at the iCAPTURE Centre is organized to address a spectrum of needs in the scientific community:

1. attraction of promising scientists during the initial and formative stages of their careers
2. provision of rigorous training for developing scientists
3. updating of strategic and experimental skills for established academic and industrial scientists
4. training and updating of skills for technologists
   

Undergraduate Training:

Throughout the year, numerous undergraduate students are trained at iCAPURE through co-operative education programs, directed studies programs or various employment opportunities. Students are mentored by a senior professor and an immediate supervisor, and gain hands-on basic science laboratory experience in a research project. Not only does each student learn, in detail, one or two technologies per 4-month or 8-month fellowship, but, more importantly for this formative period of development, students learn the critical logic of complementary technologies and when to employ them to experimental advantage.

From May to August, laboratory training is complemented by the summer student research program. Students participate in a research in progress seminar series and attend professional development seminars as well as lectures of the Pathology 521 course the Introduction to the Pathogenesis of Human Disease. In addition to technical and intellectual training, students learn to present their original work at the end-of-summer Student Research Day. This integrated program, and especially the ability to perform novel and innovative technologies, will provide our next generation of scientific leaders with a wide range of career options.

For additional information about summer student training opportunities please click here or email Jacqui Brinkman.

Technologists:

Core Technology Specialists responsible for the operation and maintenance of the instrumentation and sensitive technologies, have a regular program of on-site and remote technological training. This ongoing upgrade of skills in a core group of highly qualified technology leaders ensures that the quality of research results remains first-rate for all scientists at the iCAPTURE Centre.

For additional information about training or other opportunities please e-mail: info@mrl.ubc.ca or review the current iCAPTURE Job postings

Graduate Training:

Faculty at iCAPTURE provide graduate training for students in the Faculty of Medicine and Pathology Department of the University of British Columbia. Advanced courses in Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Pathophysiology and Pathogenesis of Human Disease are organized by iCAPTURE faculty members.

For additional information about the following training opportunities please see the Faculty of Graduate Studies UBC website or Graduate Studies in Experimental Medicine and Pathology Programs of the University of British Columbia

Post-Doctoral Training and Visiting Scientists:

		We are currently recognized around the world (Japan, United States, Germany, China, Slovenia, Australia, Chile, South Africa, Pakistan) for our excellence in post-graduate training in the imaging, cell analysis, and phenotyping of pulmonary and cardiovascular disease. Such training has forged important international research links which continue to be a source of synergy and collaboration. With the inception of iCAPTURE and its corollary of exciting new technological capabilities, we expect a marked enhancement in our attractiveness as a training centre for excellent scientists.

CIHR Strategic Training Program

The IMPACT (Integrated and Mentored Pulmonary and Cardiovascular Training) StrategicTraining Program at the Universities of British Columbia and Manitoba trains high quality clinical and basic science post-doctoral fellows with the goal of creating the next generation of investigators capable of developing and translating knowledge from bench to bedside with the outcome of improved cardio-pulmonary health status of the Canadian population.

The CIHR Strategic Training Program provides a funding package (up to $55,000 for PhD and65,000 for MD) and the opportunity to join focused teams of researcher in unique multidisciplinary research groups.

Application information is available on our website at www.impacttraining.ca. IMPACT is a CIHR Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health supported strategic training program.

For additional information about post graduate training opportunities at the James Hogg Research Centre please e-mail Jacqui Brinkman.