Diana Royce, Managing Director and COO, AllerGen

Best Practices in
HQP Training Programs
Best Practices in HQP Training Programs
Panelists
AllerGen NCE Inc, Diana Royce, Managing Director and COO
Technology Evaluation in the Elderly Network, Michelle MacDonald,
Executive Director
Canadian Water Network, Jenn Willoughby, Manager of Strategic
Marketing and Outreach
Expected Outcomes of NCE Program
Immediate
• Increases networking and collaboration
• Establish training that promotes multidisciplinary
and multi-sectoral research approach
• Encourage trainees to consider the economic,
social, environmental, and ethical implications of
their work
Expected Outcomes of NCE Program
Intermediate/long-term
• Attract and retain world-class researchers and
highly qualified personnel (HQP) in areas
essential to Canadian economic and social
development
• Develop a pool of HQP in areas essential to
Canadian economic and social development
HQP Programs are expected to:
• Involve trainees in activities from the initial discovery to
its application through to practical social and economic
benefits
• Add-value to the formal training provided through the
academic community
• Help HQP find employment
• Provide unique mentorship and training opportunities
Highly Qualified Personnel
Training Programs
Best Practices
AllerGen Strategic Goal
for the development of Highly Qualified Personnel
Create “value-added” opportunities for the
training, education and professional
development of HQP, students and new
professionals that strengthens
Canada’s knowledge base, innovative
capacity and work-force productivity.
Research Training
Trainees on research projects
receiving mentoring from
AllerGen Investigators
Target 5 students/PI
AllerGen Students and New
Professionals Network (ASNPN)
AllerGen
trainees &
research staff
Working on
AllerGen-funded
projects
ASNPN
Members
1150
HQP
involved in
Network
activities since
2005
www.allergen-nce.ca
Members by
Application
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Supporting Women in Science
AllerGen Advantage
Value-Added
Capacity
Building
Opportunities
National &
International
Networks &
Collaborations
Interdisciplinary
Research
Teams
Mentoring
Matt Gold, UBC, PhD Candidate
www.allergen-nce.ca
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Value-Added
Capacity
Building
1. Travel Awards
2. Research Skills
Awards & Internships
3. Trainee Symposium
Tactics
4. International Research
Visits
5. Poster Competition
6. Undergraduate
Summer Studentships
7.
Visiting Professor
1. Travel Awards
• Support attendance at
national and international
conferences
• Opportunities for
international networking
• Matched 1:1 with nonAllerGen funding. Total
leveraged partner funding
$160,000
• 175 Travel Awards given
to date
Leverages additional learning,
presentation, and international
networking opportunities
• Program available to
trainees, research staff
and investigators
2. Research Skills
and Internships
Since 2005:
• 55 specialized workshops
and courses, laboratory
visits and internships
2013 – 2014
Courses
• Summer Institute in Statistics
• AAI - Basic Immunology Course
Laboratory Visit
• University of Colorado at Boulder
- Dr. Rob Knight
Supports career development
and unique technical and
laboratory skills training
Internships
• Queensland Facility for
Advanced Bioinformatics
(QFAB), Brisbane
• Karolinksa Institutet in Stockholm
• Complements academic and
scientific training
3. Trainee
Symposium
• Promotes communications and
collaborations
• Topics include:
 Presentation Skills
 Media Relations
 Grant Writing & Peer Review
 Problem Solving
Decision-making
• Networking for Success Dinner
with senior investigators
• 9 events since 2006 (annual)
Provides value-added
professional development, skill
and knowledge acquisition
opportunities
• Average attendance 50
HQP/Symposium
4. International
Research Visits
Formalized MOUs with research
institutes in:
• US
• Germany
• Australia
• Sweden
• Cycle One - International
Partnership Initiative (IPI)
Jennifer Protudjer, Karolinska
Institute, Sweden
Sarah Burke-McAlpine, Karolinska
Institute, Sweden
• Cycle Two - International
Trainee Research Visits
Matches AllerGen trainees with
top allergy and asthma
clinician-scientists and
researchers in the world.
Lianne Soller, Cork University
Hospital, Ireland
Jeremy Hirota, University of
Newcastle, Priority Research
Centre for Asthma & Respiratory
Diseases, Australia
INTERNATIONAL
International Research
Collaborations
COLLABORATIONS
5. Poster
Competition
• Places trainee research
‘front and center’ at
AllerGen Research
Conference
• All students make oral
presentations
• Held at CSACI
Conference in 2013 and
2014
• Abstracts published in
AACI Journal
Offers opportunity to showcase
research and receive feedback.
• From 2005-2013, 380
trainee posters have been
adjudicated
6. UG Summer
Studentships
• Attracts
undergraduate
students to work in
Network research
• Since program
launched in 2012, 30
studentships
awarded (10/year)
• Overall goal - 70
• Partnered funding
leveraged 1:1
Foster interest in allergic,
asthma and related
disease research
• Research highlighted
through oral and
poster presentations
• Increase the number of
specialists in allergy and
clinical immunology
7. Visiting
Professor Program
• Workshops targeted at
undergraduate medical
school students and
internal medicine and
pediatric residents
• Workshops conducted by
Clinician-Scientists
Upcoming
Workshop
Increase exposure for
professional and research
opportunities available in allergy
and clinical immunology
2014
Strategic Initiative
Two-Year Fellowship valued at $250,000
2 awarded, with 2 additional possible
for a total of 4 awards to 2019
New Program in 2014
Dr. Philippe Bégin 2013 - 2014
AllerGen Emerging Clinician-Scientist Fellowship
Leading to a new strategic initiative and the
SAFAR/AllerGen Research Fellowship Award
Strategic Initiative
Partnered Research Awards
Capacity
Building
for
Science
Leadership
• Networking
• Mentorship
• Leadership
Training
Networking
Mentorship
Trainees are exposed to cutting-edge
international discovery and development efforts
and a network of national and international
researchers and collaborators.
Leadership Training
ASNPN
Leadership Committee
Value Added Outcomes
Professional
Skill &
Knowledge
Acquisition
Talent
Development
National &
International
Networking
Enhanced
Employable
Skill Sets
Competitive
Advantage
Value-Added
Capacity Building
Opportunities
• Travel Awards
• Lab Exchange
• Trainee Symposium
• Poster Competition
• Research Conference
• Research Award
Michelle North – Postdoctoral Fellow,
Queens University
Competitive Advantage
Knowledge Translation
HQP profiles in AllerGen Success Stories
Trainees in the news reporting on AllerGen Research
Oral Presentations at AllerGen Scientific
Meetings and Conferences
Impact Statement
Dr. Ramses Ilarraza, PhD
Post doctoral Fellow Pulmonary Research Group, University of Alberta
“The goal of AllerGen, when it comes to trainees, has been to help us reach our
potential by offering us with spaces to discuss our research, means to
develop our science, and tools for our personal growth.
Networking has been one of the best assets I have received from AllerGen for it
has provided me with contacts and interactions with other researchers that are
undertaking similar endeavours as I am, and also to benefit from the experience
of others in my field.”
Impact Statement
Dr. Jennifer Protudjer, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow Karolinska Institutet ,Sweden
“To be able to draw on the support and expertise of the connections I
made through AllerGen at such an early stage in my research career is
invaluable.”
Key Learnings
• Fully integrate trainees into network activities
• Maximize opportunities for networking and mentorship
• Eliminate non-differentiated lower value opportunities
with low impact
• Invest in undergraduate training to foster interest in
research
• Uptake of programs takes long-range planning on
behalf of the trainees and their supervisors
Contact:
Diana Royce
AllerGen NCE
Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer
www.allergen-nce.ca
• Questions
• Challenges
• Comments

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