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Faculty of Health Research Support Office - Funding Opportunities Bulletin #76
Dear Researchers,
This latest bulletin is overflowing with exciting and important funding announcements including opportunities for postdoctoral fellows, new investigators, those looking for course release and much more.
As always, please be in touch if you are interested in any of the opportunities in this bulletin, so that I can plan time to support your application.
All the best,Melesa
ANNOUNCEMENTSIMPORTANT TRI-COUNCIL DEADLINESNov 1 – NSERC Discovery Grants (Application Deadline)Aug 16 – SSHRC Standard Research Grants (NOI Deadline)Oct 15 – SSHRC Standard Research Grant (Application Deadline)Aug 16 - CIHR Operating Grant (Registration Deadline)Sep 15 – CIHR Operating Grant (Application Deadline)Oct 25 - NSERC RTI
SSHRC has released information regarding eligibility of applications related to health. All potential SSHRC applicants should review details at the link below.http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/apply-demande/background-renseignements/selecting_agency-choisir_organisme_subventionnaire-eng.aspx
Clarification on How to Calculate the HST/GST Rebate on Claims for ReimbursementExpenses incurred after July 1, 2010 will be eligible for a rebate, as follows:
1. Expenses which do not contain HST or GST are eligible for a rebate of 0%. These expenditures would typically be incurred outside Canada.
2. Expenses incurred within Canada containing HST will be eligible for a rebate of 7.8%, irregardless of whether the HST was charged in Ontario, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, or Newfoundland and Labrador.
3. Expenses incurred within Canada containing GST only will be eligible for a rebate of 2.58%, as in the past. (Generally those incurred in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Quebec, PEI, and territories.)
Note that all applicable forms have been revised and are posted on the Finance website. Finance is encouraging the use of the Receipt Itemization and Rebate Calculator Tool as it simplifies the calculation of the rebate.http://www.yorku.ca/finance/documents/rebate_calc.xls
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NEW FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES Human Resources & Skills Development Canada: Balance Between Financial and
Motivational/Cultural Factors on Post-Secondary Education Participation NCE – 2011 Industrial Research and Development Internship (IRDI) Program Canadian Institute for Advanced Research: Junior Fellowship Award Echo: Program Evaluation - Women’s Health Leadership Program Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada: Career Investigator Award Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada: Focus on Stroke 10 Program Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada: Grant-in-Aid Law School Admission Council: Research Grant Program NCE Knowledge Mobilization Initiative Oncology Nursing Society: Neuro-Oncology Nursing Research Grant (RE01) Oncology Nursing Society/Sigma Theta Tau International Foundation for Nursing
Research Grant (RE01) Oncology Nursing Society: Trish Greene Research Grant (RE01) American Gastroenterological Association (AGA)/Foundation for Digestive Health and
Nutrition (FDHN) Children's Cardiomyopathy Foundation: Research Grant Program Human Resources & Skills Development Canada: Disability in the Off-Reserve Aboriginal
Community: A Detailed Analysis Using the 2006 Participation and Activity Limitation Survey
Human Resources & Skills Development Canada: Low Income Adults with Disabilities Living in Canada: A Detailed Analysis Using the 2006 Participation and Activity Limitation Survey
Human Resources & Skills Development Canada: Research on the Subject of the Educational Experiences and Outcomes for Children, Youth and Young Adults with Disabilities
Human Resources & Skills Development Canada: Understanding the Experience of Immigrants with Disabilities Living in Canada: A Detailed Analysis Using the 2006 Participation and Activity Limitation Survey
Society of Critical Care Medicine: Norma J. Shoemaker Grant Canadian Health Services Research Foundation/Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI):
RFP - Analyzing the impact of the Effective Governance for Quality and Patient Safety program
Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs – New Directions Research Program
United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation: Research Grants Holistic Health Research Foundation of Canada: Massage Therapy Research Fund Ministry of Children & Youth Services: Child and Youth Development Beyond Age 6 —
Transitions to Adulthood Ministry of Research & Innovation - Ontario Research Fund Research Excellence (ORF-
RE): Water Round Research Ontario Mental Health Foundation: Research Project Grants Human Resources & Skills Development Canada: Exploring the Experiences of Socially
and Economically Disadvantaged People in Canada - Qualitative Analysis Foundation Jerome Lejeune - Jerome Lejeune Foundation Echo: Incontinence in mid-life women: Developing evidence-based tools to aid in
communication and decision-making NAMM Foundation Program Grants American Association of Critical-Care Nurses: Research Grants CIHR: Medical Imaging Clinical Trials Network
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Danone Institue: Grant-in-Aid 2010 International Diabetes Federation: Bringing Research in Diabetes to Global Environments
and Systems Open Society Institute: Global Drug Policy Program Grants The Ontario HIV Treatment Network: Career Investigator Transition Awards The Ontario HIV Treatment Network: Junior Investigator Development Award The Ontario HIV Treatment Network: The Career Scientist Award United States Institute of Peace: 2010 Annual Grant Competition SSHRC/Citizenship & Immigration Canada (CIC): Metropolis National Research
Competition The National Organization for Hearing Research Foundation: 2011 Annual Research
Awards Research Council of Norway: The Leiv Eiriksson Mobility Programme Canadian Cancer Society: Equipment Grants for New Investigators Canadian Cancer Society: Grants for New Investigators Canadian Cancer Society: Research Grants CIHR: Meeting, Planning & Dissemination Grants Citizenship & Immigration Canada: Call for Proposals Thrasher Research Fund: Early Career Awards J. P. Bickell Foundation – Medical Research Program American Health Assistance Foundation: Alzheimer Disease Research American Health Assistance Foundation: National Glaucoma Research – Standard Award CIHR: Team Grant - HIV/AIDS Vaccine Discovery and Social Research NSERC: Research Tools & Instruments (RTI) Grants Association for International Cancer Research: Research Grants Ontario Mental Health Foundation: Fellowships HSFC/CIHR Chair in Hypertension Prevention & Control HSFC: Jump Start Resuscitation Program Government of Canada: Research Grant Program Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) – 2012 Competition CIHR: Network Catalyst Grant France in Canada – French Embassy: The France-Canada Research Fund
AWARDS NSERC: Michael Smith Award for Science Promotion March of Dimes/Sanofi Pasteur: Jonas Salk Award American Psychological Association: Lizette Peterson-Homer Injury Prevention Grant
Award Canada Gairdner Global Health Award Canada Gairdner International Award Canada Gairdner Wightman Award Ministry of Research & Innovation: Premier’s Catalyst Award Danone Institue: Distinguished Nutrition Leadership Award 2011 Ministry of Research & Innovation: Premiere’s Discovery Award
PRIZES The Scientific Research Society (Sigma Xi): The William Procter Prize Fondation Fyssen: International Prize Ontario Mental Health Foundation: John Dewan Prize
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Ontario Mental Health Foundation: Paul Christie Memorial Prize
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships Ontario Mental Health Foundation: Postdoctoral Fellowships CIHR: Fellowship - Focus on Stroke (2010-2011)
INTERNAL FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES York Ad Hoc Travel Grants to Conferences Faculty of Health Conference Travel Funds Dean’s Health Research Catalyst Award SSHRC Small Grants Faculty of Health: Specific Research Grant (leave) and Specific Research Grant (non-
leave) SSHRC Grant in Aid of Travel Faculty of Health: Minor Research Grants
INTERNAL FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES NVIVO Workshop
ARCHIVED OPPORTUNITIES
DEADLINES AT A GLANCE Aug 16 - CIHR Operating Grant (Registration Deadline)Aug 16 – SSHRC Standard Research Grants (NOI)Aug 17 – WSIB RAC: 2010 Bridging the Gap RFPAug 20 – Human Resources & Skills Development Canada: Balance Between Financial and Motivational/Cultural Factors on Post-Secondary Education ParticipationAug 20 – NCE 2011 Industrial Research & Development Internship (IRDI) ProgramAug 26 – Human Frontier Science Program: Long-Term FellowshipsAug 26 – Human Frontier Science Program: Cross-Disciplinary FellowshipsAug 26 – NVIVO WorkshopAug 31 – Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute: Millennium Development Goals Research GrantAug 31 – The Drummond Foundation: Request for ApplicationsSep 1 – Alcoholic Beverage Medical Research Foundation: Research GrantsSep 1 – Canadian Institute for Advanced Research: Junior Fellowship AwardSep 1 - Echo: Program Evaluation - Women’s Health Leadership ProgramSep 1 – Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada: Career Investigator AwardSep 1 - Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada: Focus on Stroke 10 ProgramSep 1 - Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada: Grant-in-AidSep 1 - Institute for Research on Gambling Disorders: Large GrantsSep 1 - Law School Admission Council: Research Grant ProgramSep 1 – NCE Knowledge Mobilization InitiativeSep 1 – NSERC Michael Smith Award for Science PromotionSep 1 – Oncology Nursing Society: Mentored Planning GrantSep 1 - Oncology Nursing Society: Neuro-Oncology Nursing Research Grant (RE01)
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Sep 1 - Oncology Nursing Society/Sigma Theta Tau International Foundation for Nursing Research Grant (RE01)Sep 1 - Oncology Nursing Society: Trish Greene Research Grant (RE01)Sep 1 – Paralyzed Veterans of America: Research GrantsSep 3 - American Gastroenterological Association (AGA)/Foundation for Digestive Health and Nutrition (FDHN)Sep 3 – Children’s Cardiomyopathy Foundation: Research Grant ProgramSep 3 - Human Resources & Skills Development Canada: Disability in the Off-Reserve Aboriginal Community: A Detailed Analysis Using the 2006 Participation and Activity Limitation SurveySep 3 - Human Resources & Skills Development Canada: Low Income Adults with Disabilities Living in Canada: A Detailed Analysis Using the 2006 Participation and Activity Limitation SurveySep 3 - Human Resources & Skills Development Canada: Research on the Subject of the Educational Experiences and Outcomes for Children, Youth and Young Adults with DisabilitiesSep 3 - Human Resources & Skills Development Canada: Understanding the Experience of Immigrants with Disabilities Living in Canada: A Detailed Analysis Using the 2006 Participation and Activity Limitation SurveySep 9 – Society of Critical Care Medicine: Norma J. Shoemaker GrantSep 10 – Canadian Health Services Research Foundation/Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI): RFP – Analyzing the impact of the Effective Governance for Quality and Patient Safety ProgramSep 10 – National Lung Cancer Partnership: National Lung Cancer Partnership Young Investigator Research GrantsSep 10 – Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs – New Directions Research ProgramSep 12 - International Development Research Centre: Internship AwardsSep 15 – Alfred P. Sloan Foundation: Research FellowshipsSep 15 - York Ad Hoc: Travel Grants to ConferencesSep 15 – United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation: Research GrantsSep 17 – Holistic Health Research Foundation of Canada: Massage Therapy Research FundSep 17 – Ministry of Children & Youth Services: Child & Youth Development Beyond Age 6 – Transitions to AdulthoodSep 17 – Ministry of Research & Innovation – Ontario Research Fund Research Excellence (ORF-RE): Water Round ResearchSep 17 – Ontario Mental Health Foundation: Research Project GrantsSep 20 – Human Resources & Skills Development Canada: Exploring the Experiences of Socially and Economically Disadvantaged People in Canada – Qualitative AnalysisSep 23 – Foundation Jerome Lejeune – Jerome Lejeune FoundationSep 24 – March of Dimes/Sanofi Pasteur: Jonas Salk AwardSep 27 - Echo: Incontinence in mid-life women: Developing evidence-based tools to aid in communication and decision-makingSep 27 – NSERC Idea to Innovation (I2I) ProgramSep 30 – Faculty of Health Conference Travel FundsSep 30 – NAMM Foundation Program GrantsSep 30 – Pfizer Neuropathic Pain Research Awards ProgramOct 1 – American Association of Critical-Care Nurses: Research GrantsOct 1 – American Psychological Association: Lizette Peterson-Homer Injury Prevention Grant AwardOct 1 – Canada Gairdner Global Health AwardOct 1 – Canada Gairdner International AwardOct 1 – Canada Gairdner Wightman Award
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Oct 1 – Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation: Research GrantsOct 1 - CIHR: Institute Community Support (ICS) Program - IHSPR Travel Awards for Trainees and New InvestigatorsOct 1 – CIHR Medical Imaging Clinical Trials NetworkOct 1 – Danone Institute: Grant-in-Aid 2010Oct 1 – International Diabetes Federation: Bringing Research in Diabetes to Global Environments and SystemsOct 1 – Ministry of Research & Innovation: Premier’s Catalyst AwardOct 1 – Open Society Institute: Global Drug Policy Program GrantsOct 1 – The Ontario HIV Treatment Network: Career Investigator Transition AwardsOct 1 - The Ontario HIV Treatment Network: Junior Investigator Development AwardOct 1 - The Ontario HIV Treatment Network: The Career Scientist AwardOct 1 – The Scientific Research Society (Sigma Xi): The William Procter PrizeOct 1 – United States Institute of Peace: 2010 Annual Grant CompetitionOct 4 – SSHRC/Citizenship & Immigration Canada (CIC): Metropolis National Research CompetitionOct 5 - NIH Department of Health and Human Services (HHS): Accelerating the Pace of Drug Abuse Research Using Existing Epidemiology, Prevention, and Treatment Research Data (R01)Oct 5 – NIH Department of Health and Human Services (HHS): Obesity Policy Research: Evaluation and Measures (R01)Oct 8 – The National Organization for Hearing Research Foundation: 2011 Annual Research AwardsOct 13 – Research Council of Norway: The Leiv Eiriksson Mobility ProgrammeOct 15 – Canadian Cancer Society: Equipment Grants for New InvestigatorsOct 15 - Canadian Cancer Society: Grants for New InvestigatorsOct 15 - Canadian Cancer Society: Research GrantsOct 15 – CIHR: Meeting, Planning & Dissemination GrantsOct 15 – Citizenship & Immigration Canada: Call for ProposalsOct 15 – Dean’s Health Research Catalyst AwardOct 15 – Thrasher Research Fund: Early Career AwardsOct 16 – NIH: Obesity Policy Research: Evaluation and Measures (R03)Oct 18 – J.P. Bickell Foundation – Medical Research ProgramOct 19 – American Health Assistance Foundation: Alzheimer Disease ResearchOct 22 – American Health Assistance Foundation: National Glaucoma Research – Standard AwardOct 22 – CIHR Team Grant – HIV/AIDS Vaccine Discovery and Social ResearchOct 25 – NSERC Research Tools & Instruments (RTI) GrantsOct 29 – Association for International Cancer Research: Research GrantsOct 29 – Fondation Fyssen: International PrizeOct 29 – Ontario Mental Health Foundation: FellowshipsOct 29 - Ontario Mental Health Foundation: John Dewan PrizeOct 29 - Ontario Mental Health Foundation: Paul Christie Memorial PrizeOct 29 – Ontario Mental Health Foundation: Postdoctoral FellowshipsOct 31 – SSHRC Small GrantsNov 1 – CIHR Fellowship – Focus on Stroke (2010-2011)Nov 1 – Danone Institute: Distinguished Nutrition Leadership Award 2011Nov 1 – Faculty of Health: Specific Research Grant (leave/non-leave)Nov 1 – HSFC/CIHR Chair in Hypertension Prevention & ControlNov 1 – HSFC: Jump Start Resuscitation ProgramNov 1 – NSERC Discovery Grants (Application Deadline)
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Nov 1 – SSHRC Grant in Aid of TravelNov 2 – Government of Canada: Research Grant ProgramNov 3 – Banting Postdoctoral FellowshipsNov 5 – Faculty of Health Minor Research GrantsNov 5 – Ministry of Research & Innovation: Premiere’s Discovery AwardNov 10 – Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) – 2012 CompetitionNov 15 – CIHR Network Catalyst GrantNov 15 – France in Canada – French Embassy: The France-Canada Research Fund
Continuous Deadline Alcoa Foundation Weeden Foundation Population Program Cerebral Palsy International Research Foundation: Research Grant North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Scientific and Environmental Affairs Division Autism Speaks: Trailblazer Award NATO Programme for Security Through Science Research Infrastructure Support: Computer
Networking - Networking Infrastructure Grants Canadian Health Services Research Foundation Decision Support Synthesis Program Spencer Foundation Research Programs Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme (ASPP) Relation between Education and Social Opportunity Canadian Health Services Research Foundation Commissioned Activities: Policy Synthesis
Program OHTN Community-Based Research Capacity-Building Funds CPS Small Grants for Local and Regional Initiatives in Pain Education and Organizational
Development CIHR & Institute of Health Services and Policy Research Institute- Community Support
Program NSERC Visiting Fellowships in Canadian Government Laboratories (VF) United Cerebral Palsy Research Foundation Wellcome Trust Programme Grants: Biomedical Science; Health Consequences of Population
Change Multiple Sclerosis Scientific Research Foundation - Pilot Grants Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellowships Fulbright Senior Specialists Program Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program Canadian Tobacco Control Research Initiative (CTCRI) Researcher Travel Grants NSERC Special Research Opportunity (SRO) Program CHEO Individual Professional Development Awards CHEO Group Professional Development Awards Special Emphasis Notice (SEN): AHRQ Research on Diagnostic Errors in Ambulatory Care
Settings Human Frontier Science Program Short-term Fellowships Canadian Tobacco Control Research Initiative (CTCRI) – Workshop and Learning
Opportunities Grants Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) NSERC- Strategic Workshops Program Hunter’s Hope Foundation Major and Pilot Research Grants Canada/China Scholars Exchange Program International Strategic Opportunities Program DFAIT Going Global Science and Technology Fund
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DFAIT Global Commerce Support Program - Going Global Innovation CIHR President’s Fund Scottish Office Department of Health Visiting Fellowships ACCELERATE Ontario – Ontario’s Graduate Research Internship Program Max Bell Foundation Project Grants Alberta Gaming and Research Institute (AGRI) Institute Small Research Grants Canadian Heritage Multiculturalism Program Community Action Projects Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CCFF) Visiting Clinician Awards CCFF Visiting Scientist Awards CCFF Visiting Allied Health Professional Awards Max Bell Foundation's internship grants Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Conference Grant Mayday Fund of New York Grant for Pain Research Ontario Mental Health Foundation Grants for Publications, Conferences and Public Events American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC) Research Program Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers Humboldt foundation Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award
NEW FUNDING OPPORTUNITIESHuman Resources & Skills Development Canada: Balance Between Financial andMotivational/Cultural Factors on Post-Secondary Education ParticipationThe purpose of this RFP is to seek proposals for research which would use data from the first five cycles of the Youth in Transition Survey (YITS) – cohort A and the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) to investigate the role of motivational or cultural influences in relation to financial factors on post-secondary educational decision-making and success.AMOUNT: $23,000 (excluding applicable taxes) plus up to $3,957 for data access.DEADLINE: August 20, 2010 CONTACT: Please contact your Faculty Research Officer for more information.
NCE – 2011 Industrial Research and Development Internship (IRDI) ProgramThe IRDI program provides funding to successful recipient organizations which match graduate students and post-doctoral fellows with private sector organizations for private sector research internships. The interns work on research projects jointly developed by their industrial partner and academic supervisor. Specific outcomes of this program include: Immediate Outcomes (during award period) • S&T graduates exposed to real world business problems. • Private sector exposure to S&T benefits. • New S&T solutions developed for business needs. • Strengthened linkages between business and universities. • Increased number of graduates with research, user-sector skills and know-how. • Enhanced use of S&T graduates by the private sector. • New positions for S&T graduates.Intermediate/Long Term Outcomes • Increased private sector investment in S&T. • Longer term S&T positions created by business, i.e., more job opportunities in Canada for S&T graduates. • Change in business culture that will lead to increased and sustainable business S&T activities, and long term university private sector collaborationsAMOUNT: Funds will be made available to cover the administrative expenses of delivering the IRDI program and the expenses of the stipends paid to interns. The amount of the grant funds
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provided to each recipient organization will depend on the nature of the proposed initiative.ORS EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST DEADLINE: August 20, 2010AGENCY EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST DEADLINE: September 1, 2010ORS APPLICATION DEADLINE: October 1, 2010AGENCY APPLICATION DEADLINE: October 13, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.nce-rce.gc.ca/Competitions-Competitions/Current-EnVigueur/IRDI-2011/Index_eng.asp
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research: Junior Fellowship AwardThe Junior Fellow Academy as an elite fellowship program to build research and leadership capacity in gifted young scholars at a critical early stage of career development. The program is targeted to individuals who are about to or have completed their PhD within the past three years and have demonstrated outstanding scholarship and research potential.AMOUNT: Postdoctoral Fellows receive a stipend of $65,000 for salary and benefits along with $5000 for research support, while junior faculty members receive $50,000 for research support.DEADLINE: September 1, 2010WEBSITE: http://www2.cifar.ca/research/junior-academy/
Echo: Program Evaluation - Women’s Health Leadership ProgramThe OWHN-Echo project team is seeking someone to conduct process, outcome and impact evaluations of the Women’s Health Leadership Program. Program objectives will be articulated in a logic model, and will enable tracking of findings at 3 points in time (immediately post event, at 6 months and 18 months). Prior to these program evaluation activities, there will an evaluation of the pilot project (a separate RFA is being released by OWHN on August 9th, 2010 for the pilot evaluation). All the materials from the pilot evaluation will be available to support the work of the program evaluation outlined herein.Objectives:1) Develop/refine a logic model and data collection tools;2) Prepare an evaluation workplan to articulate the various tasks, roles and timing of the evaluation;3) Use the data collection tools (noted above) to gather data about the program processes outcomes and impact (as well as about participants’ reflections on the activities and overall program design);4) Ensure data collection methods support inclusion of the diversity of participants;5) Analyse and synthesize the data and prepare reports by October 2011, October 2012, March 2013, and July 2014;6) Meet and collaborate closely with the project team in relation to the steps outlined above.AMOUNT: $40,000REGISTRATION DEADLINE: If you are planning to apply for this RFA, please contact Nadia Minian ([email protected] 416-597-9687 ext. 233) by September 1, 2010.APPLICATION DEADLINE: September 9, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.echo-ontario.ca./echo/en/component/content/article/154.html?cm_mid=571399&cm_crmid=7518f373-cb49-df11-9a58-02bf0a064bec&cm_medium=email
Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada: Career Investigator AwardThe Career Investigator award of HSFO is awarded to individuals with an MD, PhD, or equivalent degree, who are established and recognized independent research workers in the field of cardiovascular and/or cerebrovascular disease who wish to make research in these fields a full-time career. Such individuals would be expected to have achieved national recognition at the time of the first application and clear evidence of this national stature should be provided. Accordingly, applicants should provide letters attesting to this.
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ELIGIBILITY: No more than ten years should have elapsed from completion of research training (first faculty appointment) and receipt of this award. The award is intended for individuals who have just completed the 5-year New Investigator award or equivalent research experience.AMOUNT: $81,500 per annum for 5 years.DEADLINE: September 1, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.hsf.ca/research/images/2011_Forms/Guidelines/hsfo%20ci%20guidelines%202011%20final.pdf
Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada: Focus on Stroke 10 ProgramThe aim of this initiative is to build greater capacity for stroke research in Canada and to encourage more research by health professionals such as those in nursing, social work, pharmacology, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, nutrition, pathology, and medicine. ELIGIBILITY: Please see website for details regarding eligibility. Research ScholarshipApplicants with credentials in a regulated accredited health discipline such as, but not limited to nursing, social work, pharmacology, respiratory therapy, and medicine are eligible to apply. The applicant must have a faculty appointment and be involved in active research and clinical practice.AMOUNT: $45,000 stipend per annum + $5,000 research allowance per annum for up to two years.DEADLINE: September 1, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.hsf.ca/research/images/2011_Forms/fos%2010%20rfa%20final.pdfResearch FellowshipSupport for highly qualified postdoctoral candidates wishing to receive further research training.AMOUNT: $40,000 stipend per annumDEADLINE: November 1, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.hsf.ca/research/images/2011_Forms/fos%2010%20rfa%20final.pdf
Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada: Grant-in-AidThe Heart and Stroke Foundations offer support for projects in the area of cardiovascular or cerebrovascular research. This support may be provided for one (1), two (2), or three (3) years (up to five (5) years in Ontario). Only established investigators should request more than a two (2) year grant.AMOUNT: Up to $150,000 per annum.DEADLINE: September 1, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.hsf.ca/research/images/2011_Forms/Guidelines/gia%20eng%20guidelines%202011%20final.pdf
Law School Admission Council: Research Grant ProgramThe Law School Admission Council (LSAC) Research Grant Program funds research on a wide variety of topics related to the mission of LSAC. Specifically included in the program's scope are projects investigating precursors to legal training, selection into law schools, legal education, and the legal profession. To be eligible for funding, a research project must inform either the process of selecting law students or legal education itself in a demonstrable way. The program welcomes proposals for research proceeding from any of a variety of methodologies, a potentially broad range of topics, and varying time frames. Proposals will be judged on the importance of the questions addressed, their relevance to the mission of LSAC, the quality of the research designs, and the capacity of the researchers to carry out the project. LSAC's membership includes law schools in the United States, Canada, and Australia. Comparative proposals about topics outside the United States, Canada, and Australia are welcome, but they must include some explicit
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connection to legal education or the legal profession within those countries. Possible topics can address a broad range of issues. Although the program welcomes research on a variety of topics, three requests for proposals have been issued in the following areas: 1. Research on Pipeline Issues and Access to Law Schools for Minority Populations2. Research on Access to Law School for Students With Disabilities3. Research on Law School Academic Assistance ProgramsAMOUNT: Up to $200,000DEADLINE: September 1, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.lsac.org/research/lsac-legal-education-grant-program.asp
NCE Knowledge Mobilization InitiativeThe NCE-KM initiative is intended to support national multi-disciplinary, multi-sectoral networks in applying and mobilizing the results of world-class research. The impacts of the network must be of social, health-related and/or economic benefit to Canadians.AMOUNT: Successful networks will be awarded up to $400,000 per year for four years, with a possible three-year extensionORS LOI DEADLINE: September 1, 2010AGENCY LOI DEADLINE: September 15, 2010, 4:30 p.m.INVITED APPLICATION DEADLINE: April 2011WEBSITE: http://www.nce-rce.gc.ca/Competitions-Competitions/Current-EnVigueur/NCEKM-RCEMC-2011/Index_eng.asp
Oncology Nursing Society: Neuro-Oncology Nursing Research Grant (RE01)The purpose of this grant is to support neuro-oncology nursing research.AMOUNT: $10,000DEADLINE: September 1, 2010APPLICATION DEADLINE: October 1, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.ons.org/Awards/FoundationAwards/NeuroOncology
Oncology Nursing Society/Sigma Theta Tau International Foundation for Nursing Research Grant (RE01)The purpose of this grant is to stimulate oncology nursing research. The author is encouraged to publish research results in the Oncology Nursing Forum or Sigma Theta Tau's international publication.AMOUNT: $10,000LOI DEADLINE: September 1, 2010APPLICATION DEADLINE: October 1, 2010WEBSITE: http://ons.org/Awards/FoundationAwards/InternationalFnd
Oncology Nursing Society: Trish Greene Research Grant (RE01)The purpose of this grant is to promote oncology nursing research in the areas of pain assessment and pain management. Note: If drug therapy is part of the research design, a Purdue Pharma, L.P. product must be used in at least one area of the treatments being employed.AMOUNT: $10,000LOI DEADLINE: September 1, 2010APPLICATION DEADLINE: October 1, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.ons.org/Awards/FoundationAwards/TrishGreene
American Gastroenterological Association (AGA)/Foundation for Digestive Health and Nutrition (FDHN)This grant is awarded to an established investigator working on novel approaches in gastric
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cancer, including the fields of gastric mucosal cell biology; regeneration and regulation of cell growth (not as they relate to peptic ulcer disease or repair); inflammation (including Helicobacter pylori) as precancerous lesions; genetics of gastric carcinoma; oncogenes in gastric epithelial malignancies; epidemiology of gastric cancer; etiology of gastric epithelial malignancies; or clinical research in the diagnosis or treatment of gastric carcinoma. The objective of the grant is to support an active, established investigator in the field of gastric biology who enhances the fundamental understanding of gastric cancer pathobiology in order to ultimately develop a cure for the disease.AMOUNT: $50,000 per year for two yearsDEADLINE: September 3, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.fdhn.org/wmspage.cfm?parm1=90
Children's Cardiomyopathy Foundation: Research Grant ProgramCCF awards funds to support research related to all forms of cardiomyopathy affecting children under the age of 18 years. The goal of CCF's research program is to advance medical knowledge on the disease and develop more accurate diagnostic methods, life-improving therapies, and ultimately a cure. CCF accepts grant proposals on an annual basis for innovative basic, clinical, or translational research relevant to the cause or treatment of cardiomyopathy in children. CCF's grant program is designed to provide seed funding to investigators for the testing of initial hypotheses and collecting of preliminary data to help secure long-term funding by the National Institute of Health (NIH) and/or other major granting institutions. Scientific excellence and relevance to pediatric cardiomyopathy are the basic criteria for selecting supported research projects.AMOUNT: Between $25,000 – $50,000DEADLINE: September 3, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.childrenscardiomyopathy.org/site/grants.php
Human Resources & Skills Development Canada: Disability in the Off-ReserveAboriginal Community: A Detailed Analysis Using the 2006 Participation and Activity Limitation SurveyThe objective of this research is to develop a more comprehensive understanding of theexperience of Aboriginal adults with disabilities aged 15 and over living off reserve in rural andurban Canada. This research will focus on the socio-economic characteristics of Aboriginal people with disabilities off-reserve and will compare these characteristics with non-Aboriginalpeople with and without disabilities and Aboriginal people without disabilities off reserve. This project will also include an in-depth examination of factors related to education attainment,employment, income, housing and aids and devices. This project will provide statisticalinformation to support program planning, policy development and service delivery.AMOUNT: $44,703.02DEADLINE: September 3, 2010 CONTACT: Please contact your Faculty Research Officer for more information.
Human Resources & Skills Development Canada: Low Income Adults with Disabilities Living in Canada: A Detailed Analysis Using the 2006 Participation and Activity Limitation SurveyThe objective of this research is to examine the relationship of disability on low income adults. This project will focus on at least three areas pertaining to low income adults with disabilities. Some possible areas of interest include: education attainment, employment status, income, health and disability, family characteristics, seniors and support services. In addition, comparisons between low income adults with disabilities and low income adults without disabilities shall be made where possible. This project will provide statistical information to support program planning,
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policy development and service delivery.AMOUNT: $44,703.02DEADLINE: September 3, 2010 CONTACT: Please contact your Faculty Research Officer for more information.
Human Resources & Skills Development Canada: Research on the Subjectof the Educational Experiences and Outcomes for Children, Youth and Young Adults with DisabilitiesThe purpose of this project is to develop a more comprehensive understanding of the barriers and enablers that children, youth and young adults with disabilities experience as they progress through the Canadian educational system, from primary school through to postsecondary studies.This project is designed to establish a baseline for present educational experiences of people with disabilities. In particular, the contractor will be required to explore the educational status and educational environment of children and youth with disabilities who are currently enrolled in primary and secondary school in Canada, as well as the current status of young adults (up to the age of 30) who may or may not be enrolled in ongoing educational programs. The contractor will focus on identifying barriers and enablers to positive educational outcomes. This project will helpinform education-related policies developed for children, youth and young adults with disabilities and their families, as well as for education providers.AMOUNT: $44,703.02DEADLINE: September 3, 2010 CONTACT: Please contact your Faculty Research Officer for more information.
Human Resources & Skills Development Canada: Understanding the Experience ofImmigrants with Disabilities Living in Canada: A Detailed Analysis Using the 2006 Participation and Activity Limitation SurveyTh e objective of this research is to provide a portrait of the adult immigrant populationwith disabilities in Canada. Th e research will compare and contrast the socio-economiccharacteristics of immigrants with disabilities to non-immigrants with disabilities, as well asimmigrants with disabilities to immigrants without disabilities living in Canada. It will also include an in-depth examination of the correlations between immigrants with disabilities and factors related to their labour experience, such as early retirement, workplace discrimination, labour force participation, income and education. Th is project will provide statistical information to supportprogram planning, policy development and service delivery.AMOUNT: $44,703.02DEADLINE: September 3, 2010CONTACT: Please contact your Faculty Research Officer for more information.
Society of Critical Care Medicine: Norma J. Shoemaker GrantThis grant honors founding Executive Director Norma J. Shoemaker, MN, FCCM, and is given to support the research studies of an SCCM nurse member. It was created to encourage research in critical care nursing and to provide funding for the continuation of research endeavors. ELIGIBILITY: To be eligible for the grant, the applicant must: Be an SCCM Nurse member in good standing for at least two years prior to application. Have documented attendance at a minimum of one SCCM Congress during the previous
three years. Not re-apply as a Principal Investigator for five years after the original award obligations have
been met. Not be a current member of the Norma J. Shoemaker Grant Committee.
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AMOUNT: $15,000DEADLINE: September 9, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.sccm.org/Membership/Grants/Pages/NormaJShoemakerGrant.aspx
Canadian Health Services Research Foundation/Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI): RFP - Analyzing the impact of the Effective Governance for Quality and Patient Safety programThe objective of the analysis funded through this RFP is to provide insights to help improve how citizens who play a governance role in the healthcare system are supported. More specifically, it seeks to uncover what is known about the effectiveness of different processes and tools for supporting citizen board members of healthcare organizations in their governance role; and assess the jointly sponsored CHSRF and CPSI Effective Governance for Quality and Patient Safety program by: Drawing on multiple sources of information, including a review of Canadian and international
published grey and peer reviewed literature, to synthesize what is known about the effectiveness of available processes and tools for supporting board members of public organizations in their governance role, with a special focus on (but not limited to) the areas of citizen boards, boards of healthcare organizations and capacity building of boards and their members; and
Undertaking an analysis and formal evaluation of the Effective Governance for Quality and Patient Safety program (including the educational sessions, the toolkit and the post-training support) to:
o assess its impact on participating organizations and on the Canadian healthcare system; and,
o identify lessons learned and document promising practices relative both to the process and the program’s impact.
AMOUNT: Up to $125,000 in funding is available to the successful team over a 30-month periodDEADLINE: September 10, 2010 at 12 p.m. (noon) Eastern Daylight TimeWEBSITE: http://www.chsrf.ca/funding_opportunities/SupportingHealthcareCitizenBoards/RequestForProposals_e.php
Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs – New Directions Research ProgramThe Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) is issuing the 2010/11 Call for Letters of Intent (LOI) for the New Directions Research Program. This program supports novel research leading to innovations and/or new knowledge that benefit Ontario’s agri-food and rural sectors. Letters of Intent are solicited that will generate new knowledge and/or technologies in the following areas:
Emerging Markets (Organic and Ethnic Markets) Water Management Agri-food Value Chains Food Processing – Competitiveness, Challenges and Opportunities
NOTE: A pre-submission consultation meeting will be held on Monday, August 16th, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. A teleconference option will be available. To register, please contact Kathleen Basciano ([email protected]) or to obtain further information, please contact Ainsley Archer at 519-826-3976 or [email protected]: Not specifiedORS LOI DEADLINE: September 10, 2010AGENCY LOI DEADLINE: September 24, 2010INVITED APPLICATION DEADLINE: January 30, 2011WEBSITE: http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/research/new_directions/index.html
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United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation: Research GrantsResearch Priorities:Basic Science & Research
Develop animal models of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA mutations. Develop methods to transform mitochondria with exogenous DNA. Understand basic pathogenetic mechanisms (genetic and environmental
modifiers of phenotype, genotype-phenotype correlations, role of free radicals,etc).
Support basic biology that would lead to a treatment. Understand better the transmission and segregation of mitochondria and
mitochondrial DNA. Develop new approaches to mitochondrial biology using cellular and animal
systems. Encourage new basic scientists to enter the field.
Clinical Research Understand the natural history of specific mitochondrial diseases. Understand epidemiology (e.g. frequency and, where appropriate, ethnicity,
resistant populations, disparity). Develop common clinical and laboratory definitions. Understand pharmacological effects on mitochondria (including drugs,
vitamins/cofactors, iron, etc). Understand effects of stress on mitochondria and on patients with mitochondrial
disease. Understand effects of exercise and diet on mitochondria and on patients with
mitochondrial disease. Develop clinical-biochemical correlations.
AMOUNT: Not specifiedLOI DEADLINE: September 15, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.umdf.org/site/c.otJVJ7MMIqE/b.5692853/k.95FB/How_to_Apply.htm
Holistic Health Research Foundation of Canada: Massage Therapy Research FundThe Holistic Health Research Foundation of Canada invites applications in:
clinical research (primary focus) mechanisms of action and policy issues (secondary focus)
Studies may be qualitative, quantitative, or mixed method. Initially, funding preference will be given to smaller, pilot, or creative study designs. In this way, the MTRF aims to assist the scientific and massage communities in building a foundation for the eventual construction of more complicated research projects.AMOUNT: A total funding amount of $50,000 is offered. Grant applications up to $15,000 will be considered.ORS DEADLINE: September 17, 2010 AGENCY DEADLINE: September 30, 2010 at 5 p.m. ETWEBSITE: http://www.holistichealthresearch.ca/massagefund.gk
Ministry of Children & Youth Services: Child and Youth Development Beyond Age 6 —Transitions to Adulthood Through this call, MCYS is seeking applications for research syntheses from a range ofdisciplines that compile up-to-date evidence on the development of school-aged children andyouth (age 7-25) across multiple domains/dimensions (e.g. social, emotional, physical,cognitive, spiritual, etc.). Syntheses:
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may focus on one domain/dimension of development or incorporate multiple domains/dimensions;
should describe patterns and processes of development that broadly apply to all youngpeople. However, where appropriate, syntheses should identify and describe the impact ofspecific individual and environmental factors that either influence developmental processes or thinking about development (e.g. culture, gender, special needs/disabilities, etc.);
may include a single, or multiple, disciplinary perspective(s); may focus on the developmental pathways of young people across the identified age
cohort (7-25) or, where appropriate, focus on specific stages (e.g. 18-25); and should be clearly written in plain language and suitable for mobilization to a diverse public(lay-person) audience.
AMOUNT: Not specified.DEADLINE: September 17, 2010CONTACT: An information and orientation session will be held by teleconference on Wednesday, August 25, 2010 from 4:00-5:00 p.m. (EST). Please register in advance by contacting Laura Flynn-Northcote at [email protected]. For more information on this funding opportunity please contact your Faculty Research Officer.
Ministry of Research & Innovation - Ontario Research Fund Research Excellence (ORF-RE): Water Round ResearchThe Ontario Research Fund - Research Excellence (ORF-RE) Water Round promotes research excellence of strategic value to Ontario by supporting new leading-edge, transformative, and internationally significant research in water and wastewater-related technologies. The ORF-RE Water Round promotes the development of water-related solutions both for domestic adoption and international export.CONTACT: Complete details can be obtained by contacting Steven Mataija (Manager, Government Research Initiatives Programs) at ORS at x22507 or [email protected] . As applicants must submit a Notice of Intent (NoI) by September 17, 2010, potential applicants should contact Steven Mataija as soon as possible.AMOUNT: The program will contribute a maximum of 1/3 of the operating costs, with 1/3 of the remainder coming from the private sector and 1/3 from the applicant institution(s). As a general rule, the minimum support provided by the ORF-RE to a Water Round project is $500,000 and the maximum support provided is $5 million.NOI DEADLINE: September 17, 2010APPLICATION DEADLINE: December 17, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.mri.gov.on.ca/english/programs/orf/re/water/program.asp
Ontario Mental Health Foundation: Research Project GrantsType A Research Project Grants (2 years)Applicants may request funds for up to two years. The grant period will be determined by the Foundation and specified in the letters of notification. Even if the intent is to continue a line of work funded by the Foundation, applications for further support beyond the period of notification will be treated as new applications. Type B Research Project Grants (up to 4 years)Principal investigators who have been funded by the Foundation for at least four consecutive years in a particular line of research at the time of application, and who can show the need to continue that line of research may apply for support for up to four additional years, through a type B grant. AMOUNT: Budgets for Type A or B Grants may not exceed $75,000 in any one year.
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DEADLINE:September 17, 2010 at 4:00 pm (Eastern Time)WEBSITE: http://www.omhf.on.ca/guidelines/researchgrants/
Human Resources & Skills Development Canada: Exploring the Experiences of Socially and Economically Disadvantaged People in Canada - Qualitative AnalysisTh e purpose of this request for proposals (RFP) is to solicit research that will explore the processes of social and economic exclusion/inclusion as they are experienced by individuals via qualitative research methods. The importance of interpersonal interactions as well as the role played by social capital and community within exclusion/inclusion processes should also be explored. This research will expand our knowledge on the nature, extent, variety, causes and consequences of exclusion experienced by individuals. HRSDC is interested in acquiringan understanding of social and economic exclusion presented by some individuals inat-risk groups of poverty and social exclusion such as: aboriginals, immigrants, lone-parents,youth and young adults, young families with children, seniors, people with disabilities, olderworkers and unattached individuals between the ages of 45 and 64 years old.AMOUNT: $65,500DEADLINE: September 20, 2010CONTACT: For more information on this funding opportunity please contact your Faculty Research Officer.
Foundation Jerome Lejeune - Jerome Lejeune FoundationThese grants are intended to lead to the discovery of treatments improving the capacity of patients with genetic diseases with intellectual disabilities, especially trisomy 21.AMOUNT: not specifiedDEADLINE: September 23, 2010WEBSITE: http://translate.google.ca/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.fondationlejeune.org/&ei=XbtoSpqVDZTWNeei3YMP&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DFoundation%2BJerome%2BLejeune%26hl%3Den
Echo: Incontinence in mid-life women: Developing evidence-based tools to aid in communication and decision-makingThe following objectives are mandatory. Applicants are welcome to submit additional objectives(1) To develop a knowledge-base about women‟s incontinence needs from the literature (in addition to that identified in this RFA) and key informants;(2) To identify the most appropriate decision-aid tool(s) for women experiencing incontinence through the literature and key informants;(3) To develop a tool(s) to support women in relation to: a) understanding incontinence; b) talking to their family physician/health care providers about their incontinence; and c) making decisions about treatment for their incontinence;(4) To test the tool(s), refine, and support awareness of the tool with diverse stakeholders (i.e., Ontario women, practitioners, policy makers);(5) To engage research participants from across Ontario; and(6) To prepare a final report for Echo that shares the knowledge gained from the previous objectives, offer further insights and makes recommendations for knowledge translation, policy changes, programming, or research on treatment options for incontinence in women.AMOUNT: $50,000REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Echo requires that those considering applying for this RFA should contact the appropriate KT specialist for this project who is Simone Kaptein ([email protected]; 416-597-9687 x230; 1-888-597-3246 x230) by September 27th 2010.APPLICATION DEADLINE: October 11, 2010
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WEBSITE: http://www.echo-ontario.ca./echo/en/component/content/article/154.html?cm_mid=571399&cm_crmid=7518f373-cb49-df11-9a58-02bf0a064bec&cm_medium=email
NAMM Foundation Program GrantsThe NAMM Foundation provides grants to worthy programs that advance access to music education and music making for people of all ages. The NAMM Foundation supports programs for people of all ages that utilize music-making materials, are replicable as regional, national orinternational models, and include outcomes and impact measures, including the following: Group music programs with non-performance-based outcome goals, including group-based
music programs facilitated within senior homes, hospitals, youth groups, parks, etc. that provide a positive music-making experience to all participants regardless of prior experience
Integrated music-making programs, including programs that train non-music educators to utilize basic music making to teach other core subjects such as math, history, world cultures, science, literature, citizenship, etc.
Programs that train music educators to supplement their existing programs with non-traditional methods, instruments or technologies allowing them to teach music to students who may not be interested in the traditional band and orchestra programs
After-school music programs including “drop-in” music-making activities facilitated by music-trained youth service personnel
Programs that train music educators to utilize group-based informal music making as an after-school youth development and/or community-building tool
Projects and programs that serve specific demographics, expand the market for music products, are replicable, provide measurable results and are self-sustaining
Interim and final reports, including budget reports, are required for every grant awarAMOUNT: The average program grant range has been $20,000 - $40,000LOI DEADLINE: September 30, 2010APPLICATION DEADLINE: December 1, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.nammfoundation.org/grant-information/namm-foundation-funding-guidelines
American Association of Critical-Care Nurses: Research GrantsImpact Research GrantThe program was designed to address gaps in acute and/or critical care areas of clinical research. The grants will ensure the pipeline for research that is vital to AACN’s research translation resources such as protocols and practice alerts. In evaluations of our evidence-based resources needed areas of future research are outlined and identified. In addition the new grant will facilitate research to support other AACN priorities such as describing the impact of family presence, influencing nurse certification or implementing standards for healthy work environments.AMOUNT: Up to $50,000AACN-Philips Medical Systems Clinical Outcomes GrantQualified proposals should seek to achieve improved outcomes and/or system efficiencies in care of acute or critically ill individuals of any age. Especially desirable are proposals for hospital-based inquiry that focuses on any of the following:
o Intervention strategies addressing technology integration into patient care o Use of computerized medical record systems in assessing patient outcomes and
managing care o Improving specific patient care outcomes (e.g., clinical, safety, financial) o Use of simulation in clinical education of nurses o One or more of the 2006 National Patient Safety Goals issued by the Joint Commission
(http://www.jointcommission.org/)
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AMOUNT: $10,000DEADLINE: October 1, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.aacn.org/WD/Practice/Content/grant-large.pcms?menu=practice
CIHR: Medical Imaging Clinical Trials NetworkThe objectives of this RFA are:
to support the creation of a single Medical Imaging Clinical Trials Network that will serve to link existing centres, medical disciplines and isotope-based imaging modalities. The network will initially address the objectives of the Federal "Isotope Supply Initiative", which are focused on reducing our clinical reliance on the 99mTc currently produced by nuclear reactors and may provide an opportunity for expanding the scope of clinical trials currently being developed by the teams funded under the "Alternatives Radiopharmaceuticals for Medical Imaging RFA". The network will facilitate the coordination of imaging clinical trials and enable the clinical evaluation of new or improved imaging technologies and their uptake into routine patient care. The network will take into consideration the full spectrum of clinical care from prevention to palliation with an emphasis on meeting the needs of the end-users of the technologies and patient populations;
to establish a national, sustainable imaging clinical trials network that will provide a clinical platform for imaging research in Canada and facilitate the evaluation of existing and new biomarkers that demonstrate clinical relevance in disease diagnosis, monitoring therapeutic response, or patient stratification leading to customized care;
to engage partners, from the onset, to ensure the sustainability of the network and provide ongoing support for clinical trials;
to establish an administrative hub and management structure that will manage: o Protocol design; o Biostatistical services; o Data and image transmission, storage, and management; o Development and maintenance of standards; o Quality assurance; o Data analysis through modality and/or disease specific core laboratories.
AMOUNT: The maximum amount awarded for a single grant is $4.7 million per year for two years.LOI DEADLINE: October 1, 2010PRE-APPLICATION DEADLINE: December 1, 2010REVISED APPLICATION DEADLINE: January 24, 2011WEBSITE: http://www.researchnet-recherchenet.ca/rnr16/vwOpprtntyDtls.do?prog=1091&&view=currentOpps&org=CIHR&type=AND&resultCount=25&sort=program&all=1&masterList=true
Danone Institue: Grant-in-Aid 2010The purpose of this grant is to encourage research focussed on or leading to improved nutrition behaviour during pregnancy, childhood and adolescence. Projects involving evaluation of nutrition education strategies and communication practices are also considered for support.AMOUNT: $50,000DEADLINE: October 1, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.danoneinstitute.ca/en/award/subventions.aspx
International Diabetes Federation: Bringing Research in Diabetes to Global Environments and SystemsRelevant topics include: Methods to improve health care delivery for patients with or at risk of diabetes
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Strategies to enhance diabetes self management Methods to develop strategies to promote healthy lifestyles to reduce the risk of diabetes New cost effective ways to identify people with pre-diabetes and treat diabetes Important considerations are the cost-effectiveness and sustainability of the intervention(s)
proposed and the ability of interventions to be widely disseminated in settings such as representative health care systems, schools, worksites or other community settings.
Proposals focusing on high risk and underserved populations disproportionately affected by diabetes are encouraged. Proposals in which the main focus is on development and validation of culturally appropriate materials are not considered responsive.AMOUNT: Short-term projects for a maximum duration of 2 years and a maximum amount of USD 65,000. Long term projects for a maximum duration of 3 years and a maximum amount of USD 400,000. LOI DEADLINE: October 1, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.idfbridges.org/general-information
Open Society Institute: Global Drug Policy Program GrantsThe Open Society Institute Global Drug Policy Program aims to broaden, diversify and consolidate the network of organizations actively challenging the current state of international drug policy. Stemming from the notion that the "war on drugs" is actually a "war on drug users," the program advocates a more balanced approach in international drug policy with a greater focus on human rights. The program is dedicated to utilizing scientific evidence and input from organizations and individuals engaged in and affected by drug use and drug policy in the development of policy recommendations.AMOUNT: While the program does not have upper or lower funding brackets, projects are expected to demonstrate co-funding. The Global Drug Policy program funds projects which do not exceed one year.DEADLINE: The program will accept applications on a rolling basis from March 1 until October 1.WEBSITE: http://www.soros.org/grants/application/grant_apply_step_5_view?country_id=112&grant_type=organizational&initiative_id=drugpolicy&initiative_name=Global+Drug+Policy+Program&grant_id=100&x=66&y=15
The Ontario HIV Treatment Network: Career Investigator Transition AwardsTo meet its strategic priorities, the OHTN seeks to support the career transition and/or skills enhancement of established independent investigators who are interested in undertaking rigorous training in HIV research. We encourage applicants who wish to undertake training in epidemiological, social or behavioural HIV-related research in Ontario. OHTN Career Investigator Transition Awards (CITA) are open to all investigators who have established a reputation for excellence in research and possess a strong record of publication and success in obtaining competitive grant funding in their current discipline.AMOUNT: Funding for Career Investigator Transition Awards will be for periods of up to five (5) years. Annual amounts will range from $50,000 (Scholarship level) up to $70,000 (Career Scientist level) per year.DEADLINE: October 1, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.ohtn.on.ca/Pages/Funding/Grants-Guidelines-Overview.aspx#Career-Investigator-Transition-Award
The Ontario HIV Treatment Network: Junior Investigator Development AwardJunior Investigator Development Awards (JIDA) are intended to encourage the further career development of a researcher who has completed her or his professional training (MD, PhD) in the field of HIV research. The purpose of the award is to support the development of outstanding independent researchers and clinician scientists. The award consists of a training period
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(Postdoctoral training) of up to two years followed by 3 years of salary support as a junior scientist. It is expected that awardees will have achieved independent researcher status by the end of the 5-year award period.The OHTN generally offers support to Ontario-based researchers in HIV disease in the areas of:
o Basic Science o Clinical Science o Epidemiology o Social / Behavioural Research
AMOUNT: Funding of JIDA Awards will be for periods of up to five (5) years. Amount of funding is up to $50,000 per year.DEADLINE: October 1, 2010 WEBSITE: http://www.ohtn.on.ca/Pages/Funding/Grants-Guidelines-Overview.aspx#Career-Investigator-Transition-Award
The Ontario HIV Treatment Network: The Career Scientist AwardOHTN Career Scientist Awards (SCI) are open to investigators who have established a reputation for excellence in research and possess a strong record of publication and success in obtaining competitive grant funding. The purpose of these awards is to enable the investigator to secure protected time to implement a program of research that would not otherwise be available. The OHTN generally offers support to Ontario-based researchers in HIV disease in the areas of:• Basic Science• Clinical Science• Epidemiology• Sociobehavioural ResearchAMOUNT: Funding of Career Scientist Awards will be for periods of up to five (5) years. Amount of funding is $70,000 per year for salary supportDEADLINE: October 1, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.ohtn.on.ca/Pages/Funding/Grants-Guidelines-Overview.aspx#Career-Investigator-Transition-Award
United States Institute of Peace: 2010 Annual Grant CompetitionThe Annual Grant Competition:
supports innovative peacebuilding projects involving research, the identification of promising models and effective practices, the development of practitioner resources and tools, the development and delivery of education, training and dialogue programs, and the production of films, radio programs, and other media.
funds projects focused on preventing, managing, and resolving violent conflict and promoting post-conflict peacebuilding in settings outside the borders of the U.S. Awards support activities that apply across a broad range of relevant disciplines, skills, and approaches. USIP welcomes proposals of an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary nature.
Topic areas of interest to USIP include, but are not limited to: Conflict analysis and prevention; Mediation and conflict resolution; Postconflict peace and stability operations; Religion and peacemaking; Women and girls in conflict and peacebuilding; Rule of law and transitional justice; Economies and conflict; Social, psychological, and physical impacts of war and conflict; Media and conflict.
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AMOUNT: The awards generally range from $50,000 to $120,000.DEADLINE: October 1, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.usip.org/grants-fellowships/annual-grant-competition
SSHRC/Citizenship & Immigration Canada (CIC): Metropolis National Research CompetitionThe purpose of the annual Metropolis National Research Competition is to select and finance a major national-level policy research project in the field of immigration and diversity. The findings of the research will be of direct relevance to policy-makers within the Government of Canada and, more specifically, to the main funding partners of the Metropolis Project. Proposals should:
A) Articulate an approach to assessing the adequacy of the standard explanations of poverty amongst growing visible minority communities, showing how the standard explanatory factors are understood and how they will be assessed. Proposals will also articulate how the research will determine whether or not there is a need for alternate explanations or enhanced conceptualizations of poverty. Emphasis should be placed on consequences and outcomes of poverty as well as on the possible solutions.
B) Indicate as precisely as possible the policy linkages of the proposed research project, based on consultations with relevant policy-makers in Citizenship and Immigration Canada and/or in partnering federal departments; or with policy-makers at the provincial or municipal level.
AMOUNT: The maximum value of the research grant is $125,000 for 12 to 18 months.DEADLINE: October 4, 2010WEBSITE: http://canada.metropolis.net/competition/4th_researchcomp_e.html
The National Organization for Hearing Research Foundation: 2011 Annual Research AwardsThe purpose of this award is provide funds, primarily in the form of seed money, for exploration into innovative biomedical research areas in the preventions, causes, treatments and cures of hearing loss and deafness. NOHR encourages proposals related to biological restoration of hearing.AMOUNT: $20,000DEADLINE: October 8, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.nohrfoundation.org/Pages/2007%20innereargrants.html
Research Council of Norway: The Leiv Eiriksson Mobility ProgrammeThe Leiv Eiriksson mobility programme is a follow-up to the "Norwegian Strategy for Scientific and Technological Cooperation with North America" (2004). The programme aims to contribute to the long-term escalation of R&D collaboration with the USA and Canada by allowing more Norwegian researchers to spend time in the U.S. or Canada, and vice versa. Grants are available to academic personnel, including doctoral and post-doctoral research fellows. Funding is normally granted for research visits lasting from 3 - 12 months in the U.S. and Canada, or 1 - 12 months in Norway based on fixed amounts.AMOUNT: See website for details.DEADLINE: October 13, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.rcn.no/en/Funding/ISBILAT/1253952714182?progId=1244734017095&visAktive=true
Canadian Cancer Society: Equipment Grants for New InvestigatorsThe purpose of this program is to make it possible for new investigators to set up cancer research facilities in Canada. The award is designed to assist young investigators who are beginning a career in cancer research.
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AMOUNT: Applicants for an Equipment Grant for New Investigators may request up to $75,000 for equipment under this category. Equipment requests are not counted towards the $150,000 or $300,000 ceiling on the budget.DEADLINE: October 15, 2010WEBSITE: http://sccma.ncic.cancer.ca/research/Grants%20and%20Awards/Grants%20to%20Individuals/Equipment%20Grants%20for%20New%20Investigators.aspx?sc_lang=en
Canadian Cancer Society: Grants for New InvestigatorsThe purpose of this program is to assist new investigators who are beginning a career in cancer research to obtain their first research grant. AMOUNT: The ceiling for salaries and supplies combined is $300,000 per year per grant, for research involving clinical studies, epidemiology, behavioural, psychosocial, supportive care, palliative care, health promotion and health services research and is $150,000 per year per grant for all other types of research.DEADLINE: October 15, 2010WEBSITE: http://sccma.ncic.cancer.ca/research/Grants%20and%20Awards/Grants%20to%20Individuals/Research%20Grants%20for%20New%20Investigators.aspx?sc_lang=en
Canadian Cancer Society: Research GrantsGrants for research will be awarded to projects deemed worthy of support, provided that the basic equipment and research facilities are available in the institution concerned and that it will provide the necessary administrative services. Such awards will be granted for the purchase and maintenance of animals, expendable supplies, minor items of equipment, payment of graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and technical and professional assistants, open access publication costs, research travel and permanent equipment. These grants do not provide for personal salary support of the Principal Investigator (PI) and/or Co-applicants nor for institutional overhead costs.AMOUNT: The ceiling for salaries and supplies combined is $300,000 per year per grant, for research involving clinical studies, epidemiology, behavioural, psychosocial, supportive care, palliative care, health promotion and health services research and is $150,000 per year per grant for all other types of research.DEADLINE: October 15, 2010WEBSITE: http://sccma.ncic.cancer.ca/research/Grants%20and%20Awards/Grants%20to%20Individuals/Research%20Grants.aspx?sc_lang=en
CIHR: Meeting, Planning & Dissemination GrantsAgingAMOUNT: $5,000 for up to one year for eligible recurring meetings, congresses, symposia, workshops, or conferences; $10,000 for up to one year for non-recurring events that are beyond traditional meetings congresses or symposia; $25,000 for up to one year for eligible international research partnership development activities.Cancer ResearchAMOUNT: The maximum amount awarded for a single grant is $15,000 for workshops, $20,000 for symposia, and $5,000 for congresses.Circulatory & Respiratory HealthAMOUNT: The maximum amount awarded for a single grant is $10,000 for up to one year.GeneticsAMOUNT: This program is designed to provide between $2,500 - $5,000 as partial support for workshops and scientific symposia held in Canada. All applicants are strongly encouraged to seek funding from other sources in addition to the IG. In exceptional cases, up to $15,000 will be provided in support of larger events that demonstrate the potential for high likelihood for significant impact to the IG community. Applicants requesting
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more that $5,000 are strongly encouraged to contact the CIHR Institute of Genetics before submitting an application.Musculoskeletal Health and ArthritisAMOUNT: The maximum amount awarded for a single grant is: $5,000 for up to one year for congresses; $15,000 for up to one year for workshops; $25,000 for up to one year for symposiumsNeurosciences, Mental Health and AddictionAMOUNT: The maximum amount awarded for a single grant is $10,000 for up to one year.Reproductive & Child HealthAMOUNT: The maximum amount awarded for a single grant is $10,000 for up to one year.DEADLINE FOR ALL MPD GRANTS: October 15, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.researchnet-recherchenet.ca/rnr16/srch.do?all=1&search=true&org=CIHR&sort=program&masterList=true&view=currentOpps&fodAgency=CIHR&fodLanguage=E
Citizenship & Immigration Canada: Call for ProposalsUnder the Inter-Action Projects stream, we are calling for proposals that support one or more of the following Program objectives:
Building an integrated, socially cohesive society by: o building bridges to promote intercultural understanding; o fostering citizenship, civic memory, civic pride, and/or respect for core democratic
values grounded in our history; and o promoting equal opportunity for individuals of all origins.
Improving the responsiveness of institutions to the needs of a diverse population by: o assisting federal and public institutions to become more responsive to diversity by
integrating multiculturalism into their policy and program development and service delivery.
Actively engaging in discussions on multiculturalism and diversity at the international level by:
o promoting Canadian approaches to diversity as a successful model while contributing to an international policy dialogue on issues related to multiculturalism. (Funding for this objective will primarily be for activities that take place in Canada.)
AMOUNT: Projects have ranged from $25,000 to $1.4 million per project, precise amounts will be based on such factors as value for money, project duration, planned activities, scope of project and funding from other sources.DEADLINE: October 15, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/multiculturalism/funding/cfp.asp
Thrasher Research Fund: Early Career AwardsThe purpose of this program is to encourage the development of medical research in child health by awarding small grants to new researchers. The Fund is open to a variety of research topics important to children’s health. The Fund’s current focus is on clinical/translational pediatric research. Emphasis is placed on projects with the potential for findings that could be clinically applicable in a relatively short period of time for the prevention, diagnosis and/or treatment of pediatric medical problems.ELIGIBILITY: Those eligible to apply include:
Physicians who are in a residency/fellowship training program, or who completed that program no more than one year before the date of submission of the concept paper.
Post-doctoral researchers who received the doctoral level degree no more than three years prior to the date of submission of the concept paper.
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AMOUNT: Up to $25,000CONCEPT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 15, 2010 at noon Mountain TimePROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE: November 29, 2010 at noon Mountain TimeWEBSITE: http://www.thrasherresearch.org/sites/www_thrasherresearch_org/Default.aspx?page=174
J. P. Bickell Foundation – Medical Research ProgramThe objective of this grant is to assist biomedical scientists of various departments and faculties in Ontario universities, hospitals and scientific institutions concerned with medical research. These grants may be distributed among medical research institutions and universities in Ontario. Note: Only one application is accepted from each university. Therefore, York researchers are requested to submit one (1) hardcopy of the application directly to the Office of Research Services by 12:00 noon on October 18, 2010. The granting agency’s deadline is November 1st. Potential applicants are required to submit early to allow ORS to coordinate a peer review process if necessary.AMOUNT: Up to $65,000ORS DEADLINE FOR INTERNAL ADJUDICATION: 12:00 noon on October 18, 2010AGENCY DEADLINE: November 1, 2010
American Health Assistance Foundation: Alzheimer Disease ResearchStandard AwardsThe standard award provides significant funding for researchers who have already generated some amount of preliminary data, but often still require significant progress before they can apply to governmental or industrial funding agencies.AMOUNT: Up to $400,000 over three years.Pilot AwardsPilot awards are designed to take a highly innovative proposal with modest preliminary data and give investigators the opportunity to prove their ideas. These awards are typically described as being ‘high risk – high reward’. They are often given to investigators who need funding to demonstrate the validity of a very focused hypothesis.AMOUNT: Up to $150,000 over two years.DEADLINE: October 19, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.ahaf.org/research/apply/openawards.html
American Health Assistance Foundation: National Glaucoma Research – Standard AwardThe standard award provides significant funding for researchers who have already generated some amount of preliminary data, but often still require significant progress before they can apply to governmental or industrial funding agencies.AMOUNT: Up to $100,000 over two yearsDEADLINE: October 22, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.ahaf.org/research/apply/openawards.html
CIHR: Team Grant - HIV/AIDS Vaccine Discovery and Social ResearchThe objectives specific to this funding opportunity are to:
Create internationally recognized teams of Canadian and LMIC researchers and support them in their efforts to contribute important knowledge to the global search for HIV vaccines;
Support teams that are multidisciplinary in nature, or that are composed of entirely social scientists or basic scientists;
Provide training and build infrastructure capacity for HIV vaccines discovery and related social research in Canada and in LMICs;
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Create mechanisms for teams funded under this initiative to network and share information with one another and other relevant international networks and consortia;
Create mechanisms for ongoing learning and sharing within and among funded teams including data sharing, shared platforms and global intellectual property access mechanisms; and
Support the production of new knowledge and the translation of research findings into improvements in health and the health care system.
For community-focused proposals, the guiding principle for participation is that community groups are active, influential and ongoing participants in the research, training, mentoring and knowledge translation activities, and that their roles have been formally agreed upon in the spirit of ensuring equity and mutual benefits from the partnership.AMOUNT: The maximum amount awarded per year is up to $850,000 CAD for a single grant for a maximum of $4.25 million CAD over five years.LOI DEADLINE: October 22, 2010INVITED APPLICATION DEADLINE: June 1, 2011WEBSITE: http://www.researchnet-recherchenet.ca/rnr16/vwOpprtntyDtls.do?prog=1087&&view=currentOpps&org=CIHR&type=AND&resultCount=25&sort=program&all=1&masterList=true
NSERC: Research Tools & Instruments (RTI) GrantsRTI Grants are one-year awards that assist in buying or developing research equipment that costs more than $7,000. In exceptional cases, multiple-year requests will be accepted. The onus is on the applicant to clearly explain the rationale.AMOUNT: $7,001 to $150,000DEADLINE: October 25, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Professors-Professeurs/RTII-OIRI/RTI-OIR_eng.asp
Association for International Cancer Research: Research GrantsAICR awards grants to support fundamental or translational research into the causes, mechanisms, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of cancer. We do not support clinical research. We will consider applications that include some clinical research in a project which is mostly basic or translational. However, completely clinical applications, such as intervention studies, clinical trials or health care delivery research are beyond the remit of AICR.AMOUNT: Most of the three-year grants awarded have a total budget of £200,000 or less.DEADLINE: October 29, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.aicr.org.uk/ApplyingforResearchGrants.stm
Ontario Mental Health Foundation: FellowshipsSenior Research FellowshipSenior Research Fellowships are open to experienced investigators who have a strong record of publication and success in obtaining competitive grant funding; applicants for this award must at the time of application be a minimum of nine years beyond the most recent professional research qualification. Applicants for the Senior Research Fellowship must be members of the institution’s full-time staff. AMOUNT: 3 years (up to $40,000 per year)Intermediate Research FellowshipIntermediate Research Fellowships are intended to help individuals to continue a career in research once they are established members of the mental health research community. To be eligible, candidates must at the time of application be a minimum of five years but not more than ten years beyond the most recent professional research qualification. The 5-year minimum does not apply to individuals who are completing 3 years as an OMHF New Investigator Fellow.
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Applicants for the Intermediate Research Fellowship must be members of the institution’s full-time staff. AMOUNT: 3 years (up to $40,000 per year)New Investigator FellowshipNew Investigator Fellowships are intended for candidates who at the time of application are in the first five years of their career since obtaining the most recent professional research qualification. The purpose of these awards is to enable flexible options for a newly independent investigator to develop a line of research and to consolidate a research career. AMOUNT: 3 years (up to $35,000 per year)DEADLINE: October 29, 2010 at 4:00 pm (Eastern Time)WEBSITE: http://www.omhf.on.ca/guidelines/fellowships/
HSFC/CIHR Chair in Hypertension Prevention & ControlThe Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada and the CIHR Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health are partnering on this Request for Applications with the objective of supporting a Chair in the area of hypertension research who will focus on: • improving awareness, prevention and control of hypertension; • identifying gaps in Knowledge Transfer and Exchange / Knowledge Translation from
evidence to practice for hypertension prevention and control; and • developing and evaluating new policies, programs and interventions aimed at reducing the
burden and/or impact of hypertension. The funding partners wish to solicit proposals from candidates for a HSFC / CIHR Chair in Hypertension Prevention and Control who have the potential to address Knowledge Transfer and Exchange / Knowledge Translation and knowledge gaps in this critical area.AMOUNT: The maximum amount per year: $100,000 for salary support and $50,000 for operational expenses (primarily travel and research expenses). Award duration is 5 years. NOI DEADLINE: November 1, 2010INVITED APPLICATION DEADLINE: April 1, 2011WEBSITE: http://www.hsf.ca/research/en/strategic-funding-opportunities/hypertension-chair.html
HSFC: Jump Start Resuscitation ProgramThe objectives of this initiative are: 1) to increase the number of trained researchers working in the area of resuscitation; 2) to build greater capacity for resuscitation research in Canada; and 3) to encourage more research by health professionals related to out of hospital and in-hospital cardiac arrest care, including: emergency medicine, critical care, cardiology, nursing, psychology, paramedicine, and public health. Research FellowshipThe Jump Start Resuscitation Research Fellowship is an "in-training" award intended for individuals with (or expecting) a degree at a doctoral level (e.g. PhD, MD, BM, DDS, DVM, or equivalent degree). The objective of this award is to attract and foster young investigators to initiate and/or continue research training in the field of resuscitation. Each application is considered to be a joint submission by the applicant and the identified supervisor, including the development of the research plan.ELIGIBILITY: Please see website for details regarding eligibility.AMOUNT: $40,000 stipend per annum for up to three yearsDEADLINE: November 1, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.hsf.ca/research/images/2011_Forms/js%20resusc%20rfa%202010%20final.pdfResearch ScholarshipThe Jump Start Resuscitation Research Scholarship is a salary award intended for applicants
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with a Masters and/or Doctorate degree and with credential(s) in a regulated accredited health discipline and training in the field of resuscitation. Paramedics, although not accredited in all provinces across Canada, are eligible to apply. Each application is considered to be a joint submission by the applicant and the identified mentor. Applicants with credentials in a regulated accredited health discipline such as, but not limited to nursing, social work, pharmacology, respiratory therapy, and medicine are eligible to apply. The applicant must have a faculty appointment and be involved in active research and clinical practice.AMOUNT: $45,000 stipend per annum + $5,000 research allowance per annum for up to two years.DEADLINE: November 1, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.hsf.ca/research/images/2011_Forms/js%20resusc%20rfa%202010%20final.pdf
Government of Canada: Research Grant ProgramThe Research Grant Program promotes research that contributes to a better knowledge and understanding of Canada, its relationship with the United States, and its international affairs. The grant is designed to assist individual scholars, or a team of scholars, in writing an article-length manuscript of publishable quality and reporting their findings in a scholarly publication and at scholarly conferences, thus contributing to the development of expertise on Canada in the United States. Projects of particular interest must have policy relevance for Canada and Canada-U.S. relations. Topics that are highly relevant to Canada-U.S. relations include smart and secure borders; North American economic competitiveness; regulatory cooperation; Canada-U.S. trade and investment partnership; energy security and sustainability; environmental sustainability; emergency planning and management; Canada-U.S. security and defense cooperation; Canada in Afghanistan; global health policy; and changing demographics in North America. Projects that include collaboration with researchers at Canadian institutions are strongly encouraged.ELIGIBILITY: This program is intended for faculty members at accredited U.S. four-year colleges and universities, as well as scholars at American research institutions. Recent Ph.D. recipients who are citizens or permanent residents of the United States are also eligible to apply. Applicants are ineligible to receive the same grant in two consecutive years or to receive two individual category Canadian Studies grants in the same grant period.AMOUNT: applicants may request funding up to US$15,000; applicants whose project focuses on the priority topics listed above and who can demonstrate matching funds from others sources may request funding up to US$20,000DEADLINE: November 2, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/washington/studies-etudes/research-recherche.aspx?lang=eng
Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) – 2012 CompetitionThe NCE Steering Committee invites potential applicants to submit a Letter of Intent (LOI) for the 2012 NCE Network Competition. The LOI must describe the problem(s), challenge(s), or opportunity(ies) that the proposed Network will address, as well as the proposed Network’s vision, socioeconomic context, budget and key participants. It should also summarize how the proposed Network will address the five NCE Program Criteria, the NCE Program goals and objectives and the competition framework. The four S&T priority areas and the 13 STIC sub-priority research areas are:Environmental science and technologies:1. Water (health, energy, security) 2. Cleaner methods of extracting, processing and using hydrocarbon fuels, including reduced consumption of these fuels Natural resources and energy:
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3. Energy production in the oil sands 4. Arctic (resource production, climate change adaptation, monitoring) 5. Biofuels, fuel cells and nuclear energy Health and related life sciences and technologies: 6. Regenerative medicine 7. Neuroscience 8. Health in an aging population 9. Biomedical engineering and medical technologies Information and communication technologies: 10. New media, animation and games 11. Wireless networks and services 12. Broadband networks 13. Telecom equipment engineering and medical technologies The 2012 NCE Network Competition is looking for a balanced portfolio of networks. Subject to requests submitted and funding available, it is therefore anticipated a maximum of one new network in a given S&T priority area will be supported. AMOUNT: Not specified. It is anticipated that four to five new networks may be funded in the 2012 NCE Network Competition.ORS LOI DEADLINE: November 10, 2010AGENCY LOI DEADLINE: November 24, 2010, at 4:30 p.m.WEBSITE: http://www.nce-rce.gc.ca/Competitions-Competitions/Current-EnVigueur/NCE-RCE-2012/Index_eng.asp
CIHR: Network Catalyst Grant The KT Branch intends to launch a Netowrk Catalyst funding opportunity in August 2010. The objective of this funding opportunity will be to support the creation and/or further development of formal networks by encouraging national and/or international collaboration, resource sharing, capacity building and dissemination in priority research areas.AMOUNT: Up to $200,000 per annum for up to three years.DEADLINE: November 15, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.researchnet-recherchenet.ca/rnr16/srch.do?all=1&search=true&org=CIHR&sort=program&masterList=true&view=currentOpps&fodAgency=CIHR&fodLanguage=E
France in Canada – French Embassy: The France-Canada Research FundFinancial support is offered by the French Embassy in Canada for Canadian researchers who wish to undertake short term visits to France within the framework of ongoing projects between French and Canadian centres and institutions.AMOUNT: Between $ 8 000 and $15 000 for 2 yearsDEADLINE: November 15, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.ambafrance-ca.org/spip.php?article1415
AWARDSNSERC: Michael Smith Award for Science PromotionThe NSERC Awards for Science Promotion focus on people and groups who are inspirational in the way they promote science to the general public.Science promotion activities with award potential could include activities such as:
organizing science camps, fairs, clubs or programs with youth organizations; creating new learning materials; developing science- and engineering-related co-op programs or job shadowing initiatives;
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arranging demonstrations, visits and lectures; creating new learning materials; writing books and articles; creating radio or television programs; and generating public involvement through multi-media programs.
DEADLINE: September 1, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Prizes-Prix/SciencePromotion-PromotionScience/nomination-nomination_eng.asp
March of Dimes/Sanofi Pasteur: Jonas Salk AwardThe Jonas Salk Award is presented annually to a Canadian scientist, physician or researcher who has made a new and outstanding contribution in science or medicine to prevent, alleviate or eliminate a physical disability. AMOUNT: $10,000DEADLINE: September 24, 2010 by 4:00PMWEBSITE: http://www.marchofdimes.ca/dimes/people_with_disabilities_caregivers/grants_and_awards/research_and_education/jonas_salk_award.htm
American Psychological Association: Lizette Peterson-Homer Injury Prevention Grant AwardThe Lizette Peterson Homer Memorial Injury Research Grant supports research into psychological and behavioral aspects of the prevention of injuries in children and adolescents as reflected in the activities and interests within pediatric psychology of the late Lizette Peterson Homer and her commitment to improving the status of children in the face of the most significant threats to their health and development. This grant is open to students and faculty to support research related to the prevention of injuries in children and adolescents.AMOUNT: $5,000DEADLINE: October 1, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.apa.org/apf/funding/peterson-homer.aspx?tab=1
Canada Gairdner Global Health AwardThe Canada Gairdner Global Health Award is directed at health issues pertaining to developing countries. It recognizes those who have made major scientific advances in any one of four areas; namely basic science, clinical science or population or environmental health. These advances must have, or have potential to make a significant impact on health outcomes in the developing world. Nominations for leadership and administration however outstanding, do not fall within the parameters of this award. The purpose for the Canada Gairdner Global Health Award is the recognition of individual whose seminal scientific work constitutes a discovery or a highly tangible sustained achievement toward improving our knowledge of and application to global health, and also to generate scientific momentum in the field and augmenting public awareness.AMOUNT: $100,000 DEADLINE: October 1, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.gairdner.org/awards/nominati/globalheal
Canada Gairdner International AwardThe Foundation's aim is to honour and reward outstanding biomedical scientists who have made original contributions to medicine with the ultimate goal of contributing through research to the conquest of disease and relief of human suffering. The Foundation invites the scientific community to nominate qualified scientists from every branch of biomedicine.
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AMOUNT: $100,000. The Awards are for the personal use of the recipient. DEADLINE: October 1, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.gairdner.org/awards/nominati/thegaird
Canada Gairdner Wightman Award A special annual award will be given to a Canadian who, in the opinion of the Foundation, has demonstrated outstanding leadership in medicine and medical science consistent with the purpose of the Foundation. For leadership in a specific field of biomedical sciences (basic, clinical, population health) in
Canada, and/ or original and sustained contributions to that field at an internationally recognized level.
For institutional academic and scientific leadership leading to the establishment and development of biomedical research at an international level. (e.g. Dean of Medicine, Director of a Research Institute, leader of a national initiative).
For leadership at the highest level which contributed to "conquest of disease and relief of human suffering"
For special recognition relating to the development of Canadian and international biomedical science.
Normally the Wightman awardee should be an MD, or Ph.D., involved in academic scientific responsibilities.
AMOUNT: $100,000DEADLINE: October 1, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.gairdner.org/awards/wightman
Ministry of Research & Innovation: Premier’s Catalyst AwardThe 2011 Premier’s Catalyst Awards provide six awards of $200,000 for developing an innovation that is a commercially successful new, or significantly improved, product or service based on a breakthrough technology. Innovations must have the potential to impact Ontario's economy, society and/or sustainable development.
The Best Young Innovator Award celebrates early stage innovators who have played a significant role in developing a commercially successful product or service based on a breakthrough technology and who demonstrate future potential.
The Innovator of the Year Award celebrates innovators who have played a significant role in developing a commercially successful product or service based on a breakthrough technology.
The Lifetime Achievement in Innovation Award celebrates individuals who have played a significant role in establishing a strong track record of bringing new and successful innovations to market.
The Start-up Company with the Best Innovation Award celebrates emerging companies that have demonstrated outstanding performance, growing revenues and/or attraction of venture capital and the potential to become a market leader as a result of developing a commercially successful product or service based on a breakthrough technology.
The Company with the Best Innovation Award celebrates established companies who have outstanding performance, growing revenues and the potential to grow market share as a result of developing a commercially successful product or service based on a breakthrough technology.
the Premier’s Catalyst Award for Water Innovation will be given to a company that is developing a commercially successful technology related to the conservation and/or treatment of water. The company will be expected to demonstrate outstanding performance, growing revenues or venture capital and its potential to become a market leader.
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AMOUNT: $200,000NOMINATION DEADLINE: 5:00 p.m. Friday October 1, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.mri.gov.on.ca/english/programs/pca/program.asp
Danone Institue: Distinguished Nutrition Leadership Award 2011The Danone Institute is offering an annual award to recognize the contribution of an individual or an association to the field of nutrition within Canada. This award is intended to reflect a career devoted to improving nutrition behaviour through the advancement and application of knowledge, novel treatment and prevention strategies or development of nutrition communication aimed at increasing public and professional awareness of the effect of nutrition on health. Criteria for eligibility for this award include demonstration of innovation, commitment, leadership and long lasting impact on nutrition behaviour.AMOUNT: $5000NOMINATION DEADLINE: November 1, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.danoneinstitute.ca/en/award/excellence.aspx
Ministry of Research & Innovation: Premiere’s Discovery AwardThe Discovery Award consists of five awards recognizing excellence in research for either a single discovery or a body of work on both domestic and international fronts.
The $500,000 Life Sciences and Medicine award celebrates advances in the study of human health and/or biological/ecological systems.
The $500,000 Natural Sciences and Engineering award celebrates achievements in the study of physical sciences and/or engineering processes.
The $250,000 Social Sciences award celebrates achievements in the study of social interactions and/or social systems.
The $250,000 Arts and Humanities award celebrates achievements in the study of arts and/or culture.
The $250,000 Innovation Leadership award recognizes exceptional leadership in the transfer of knowledge and/or technology.
NOTE: Eligible researchers may be nominated by the Vice-President of Research (or equivalent) of an Ontario publicly funded research institution or by any other faculty member at an Ontario publicly funded research institution, provided that the nomination is also signed by the Vice-President of Research (or equivalent) of the Ontario publicly funded research institution at which the award will be administered and the research conducted.NOMINATION DEADLINE: 5:00 p.m., Friday, November 5, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.mri.gov.on.ca/english/programs/pda/program.asp#deadline
PRIZESThe Scientific Research Society (Sigma Xi): The William Procter Prize The William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement has been awarded annually to a scientist who has made an outstanding contribution to scientific research and has demonstrated an ability to communicate the significance of this research to scientists in other disciplines.AMOUNT: $5,000DEADLINE: October 1, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.sigmaxi.org/programs/prizes/procter.shtml
Fondation Fyssen: International PrizeThe aim of Fyssen Foundation is to "encourage all forms of scientific inquiry into cognitive mechanisms, including thought and reasoning, which underlie animal and human behaviour ; their biological and cultural bases, and phylogenetic and ontogenetic development". For this purpose,
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an INTERNATIONAL PRIZE . is awarded annually to a scientist who has conducted distinguished research in the areas supported by the Foundation such as ethology, paleontology, archaeology, anthropology, psychology, epistemology, logic and the neurosciences. The topic for the next international prize is “evolution of social communication”.AMOUNT: $60,000 EUROSNOMINATION DEADLINE: October 29, 2010 WEBSITE: http://www.fondation-fyssen.org/prixUS.html
Ontario Mental Health Foundation: John Dewan PrizeThe John Dewan Prize was established in honour of Dr. John Dewan who held the position of executive consultant to the Foundation from 1964 to 1974. The prize is intended to recognize an outstanding researcher whose work has been, or is presently, supported by the Foundation. The decision of the Foundation shall be based upon an assessment of the originality and uniqueness of either laboratory or clinical research and the contribution to significant new knowledge or concepts bearing upon mental health. AMOUNT: $2,500NOMINATION DEADLINE: October 29, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.omhf.on.ca/guidelines/prizes/
Ontario Mental Health Foundation: Paul Christie Memorial PrizeThe Paul Christie Memorial Prize was established in memory of Dr. Paul Christie to give recognition to a young researcher who holds, or has held, a Fellowship or Research Studentship from the Ontario Mental Health Foundation. To be eligible a candidate must have held a Fellowship for at least two years or a Studentship for three years.AMOUNT: $1000NOMINATION DEADLINE: October 29, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.omhf.on.ca/guidelines/prizes/
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW FUNDING OPPORTUNITIESBanting Postdoctoral FellowshipsThe objective of the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships Program is to attract and retain top-tier postdoctoral talent, both nationally and internationally, to develop their leadership potential and to position them for success as research leaders of tomorrow, positively contributing to Canada's economic, social and research-based growth through a research-intensive career. The Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships Program will be distinguished from existing postdoctoral fellowships programs by its emphasis on the synergy between an applicant's individual merit and potential to launch a successful research-intensive career and the host institution's commitment to the research program and environment with which the applicant is to be affiliated. As such, an applicant's application to the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships Program must be completed in full collaboration with the proposed host institution. The program will fund 70 new awards annually. The fellowships will be distributed equally across the three federal granting agencies. AMOUNT: $70 000 per year (taxable) for two yearsDEADLINE: All applicants, in collaboration with their proposed host institutions, will be required to submit a complete electronic application, including referee assessments, via ResearchNet on or before November 3, 2010.WEBSITE: http://www.cihr.ca/e/42097.htmlNOTES: Note that the application includes an applicant CV which must be completed on the Canadian Common CV platform. Complete details of the application requirements and access to the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships e-submission platform on ResearchNet to complete an
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application will be available in mid-August.
Ontario Mental Health Foundation: Postdoctoral FellowshipsThe Postdoctoral Fellowship is intended to provide an opportunity for a person with a Ph.D. to obtain further training. AMOUNT: 2 or 3 years ($35,000 per year)DEADLINE: October 29, 2010 at 4:00 pm (Eastern Time)WEBSITE: http://www.omhf.on.ca/guidelines/fellowships/
CIHR: Fellowship - Focus on Stroke (2010-2011)The emphasis of this strategic initiative is on building capacity in the later themes/pillars of stroke research (i.e., clinical, health services/policy, and/or population health research) and supporting research training of health professionals (e.g. nurses, occupational therapists, pharmacists, physiotherapists, speech therapists). Funding priority will therefore be given to highly rated applicants whose research is 60% or more in the area of clinical, health services/policy, and/or population health research. While applications with a basic biomedical research focus are eligible for this competition, a limited amount of funds is available to support research in this area. AMOUNT: Trainee stipend: $40,000 per annum for PhDs for up to 3 years; $50,000 per annum for MDs for up to 3 years. Research allowance: $5,000 per annum for up to 3 years.DEADLINE: November 1, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.researchnet-recherchenet.ca/rnr16/vwOpprtntyDtls.do?prog=1099&&view=currentOpps&org=CIHR&type=AND&resultCount=25&sort=program&all=1&masterList=true
INTERNAL FUNDING OPPORTUNITIESYork Ad Hoc Travel Grants to ConferencesFull-time faculty members may apply for travel grants to national and international conferences at which a substantial presentation will be made. This is a last resort fund. AMOUNT: Awards will be made up to the cost of return minimum airfare. DEADLINE: September 15, December 15, March 15 and June 15WEBSITE: http://www.research.yorku.ca/securehome/research_services/apply_for_funding/internal_funding/Fillable_Forms/index.html
Faculty of Health Conference Travel FundsConference travel funds are awarded to full-time faculty members to offset the cost of travel to conferences where a paper is being presented. Faculty members may apply for up to $1,000 per fiscal year (May 1 – April 30). Deadline: Applications will be considered twice a year, on September 30 and April 30. If the deadline falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or statutory holiday, applications will be accepted on the next working day.Value: Up to $1000.00 per fiscal year.Eligibility: Only YUFA members are eligible to apply.
Dean’s Health Research Catalyst AwardThe aim of this award is to support faculty members via course release in developing and advancing their research program. This award is designed to encourage innovative, cross-cutting collaborative research that is likely to attract external funding. It is intended to recognize merit in research or creative work by providing an individual scholar with an enhanced opportunity to engage in projects requiring intensive effort that otherwise may not be possible.
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AMOUNT: The funding will be primarily in the form of a half-course (or possibly full-course) teaching releaseDEADLINE: October 15, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.yorku.ca/health/research_funding.html
SSHRC Small GrantsThe objective of the SSHRC Small Grant Program is to provide support to full-time faculty members and professional librarians in the humanities and social sciences for pilot studies, young faculty, ‘opportunistic’ small projects, to round out work on larger projects, and projects not readily funded elsewhere. AMOUNT: Up to $4,000 for one year. DEADLINE: October 31WEBSITE: http://www.yorku.ca/research/support/internalgrants/index.html
Faculty of Health: Specific Research Grant (leave) and Specific Research Grant (non-leave) This program permits, under certain conditions, a researcher to receive a research grant in lieu of salary. The expenditures proposed must be warranted in the context of the research outlined and may not be duplicated in any other grants received by the researcher. Please note that there are tax and pension implications associated with this program.DEADLINE: Nov 1, Feb 1 annually. If the deadline falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or statutory holiday, applications will be accepted on the next working day.WEBSITE: http://www.yorku.ca/health/research_funding.html
SSHRC Grant in Aid of TravelThe objective of this grant is to provide assistance for attendance at national and international scholarly conferences for which the applicant is giving a paper or featured at a solo or 2 person opening of an exhibition, a principal screening, premier performance of dance, theatre or musical productions.AMOUNT: Generally, up to a minimum APEX or Charter Class airfare.DEADLINE: November 1, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.yorku.ca/research/support/internalgrants/index.html
Faculty of Health: Minor Research GrantsMinor research grants are available to assist faculty in conducting research projects that do not require or are not eligible for major resources, including, but not limited to: • Pilot studies for the initiation of programs for which outside grant applications may be
submitted• Limited emergency support of research projects• Supplementary funding to cover limited additional costs of projects nearing completion and
already supported by external fundsAMOUNT: Up to $3,000DEADLINE: November 5, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.yorku.ca/health/research_funding.html
WORKSHOPSNVIVO WorkshopThis is a workshop for those who have been involved in qualitative studies andare aware of methods used within qualitative research. The workshops aresoftware oriented demonstrating how various research situations will benefitfrom NVivo. It will make understanding easier if you are familiar with Word,
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Excel, and Outlook. The book ”NVivo 8 Essentials” and training material are included in the course fee.DATE: August 26th (stage 1) & 27th (Stage 2)FEE: Stage 1 = CAD 449, Stage 2 = CAD 449, full time students = CAD 399.LOCATION: CTC, 595 Bay Street, Suite 302, TorontoNOTES: For more information on this workshop please contact your Faculty Research Officer.
ARCHIVE: Deadlines- Previous bulletins FUNDING OPPORTUNITIESAug 16 - SSHRC: Standard Research GrantsA program of research is defined as a sustained research enterprise that includes one or more projects or other components, and which is shaped by broad objectives for the advancement of knowledge. It might be undertaken primarily by one investigator and be encompassed within a single research career, or it could mobilize a team of researchers during a specific period. In pursuit of the overall objectives, specific approaches and methods are advanced, adopted and modified as the research proceeds and as findings are made and reported. SSHRC supports new and ongoing programs of research through three-year grants, based on peer-review judgment of the probable significance of the contribution to knowledge in the social sciences and humanities. AMOUNT: The value of these grants is up to a maximum of $100,000 per year, but not totalling more than $250,000 in a three-year period. A minimum budget of $7,000 in at least one of the three years is required.NOI DEADLINE: August 16, 2010APPLICATION DEADLINE: October 15, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.sshrc.ca/funding-financement/programs-programmes/standard_grants_subventions_ordinaires-eng.aspx
Aug 17 - WSIB RAC: 2010 Bridging the Gap RFPThe WSIB Research Advisory Council (RAC) has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for short-term research and application development projects that encourage short, research-based projects which address clearly identified workplace needs and promote collaboration among workplaces, partner organizations, and researchers.Two types of Bridging the Gap proposals will be considered:(a) proposals for short-term research projects that build partnerships among workplaces, researchers, and prevention organizations to address specific workplace needs (maximum grant $60,000)(b) proposals to develop completed research into practical applications while creating partnerships among workplaces, researchers, and prevention organizations (maximum grant $40,000).Maximum duration of all Bridging the Gap grants is 12 months.ORS DEADLINE: August 17, 2010AGENCY DEADLINE: August 30, 2010 by 4:00PM EDTWEBSITE: http://www.wsib.on.ca/wsib/wsibsite.nsf/public/ResearchBridgingtheGap2010
Aug 26 - Human Frontier Science Program: Long-Term FellowshipsLong-Term Fellowships (LTF) are reserved for applicants with a Ph.D. in a biological discipline to embark on a new project in a different field of the life sciences. Preference is given to applicants who propose an original study in biology that marks a departure from their previous Ph.D. or postdoctoral work so as to learn new methods or change study system.ELIGIBILITY: In order to be eligible, candidates with a Ph.D. must have obtained their doctoral
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degree in the 3 years prior to the submission deadline (between 1 September 2007 and 9 September 2010. Applicants must have at least one lead author paper either accepted for publication, in press or published, in a peer-reviewed international journal on 9 September 2010.AMOUNT: See website for detailed information.REGISTRATION DEADLINE: August 26, 2010APPLICATION DEADLINE: September 9, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.hfsp.org/how/appl_forms_LTF.php
Aug 26 - Human Frontier Science Program: Cross-Disciplinary FellowshipsCross-Disciplinary Fellowships (CDF) are open to applicants with a Ph.D. from outside the life sciences e.g. in physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering or computer sciences who have had limited exposure to biology during their previous training. Applicants for the CDF should propose a significant departure from their past research by changing e.g. from material science or physics to cell biology, from chemistry to molecular biology, or from computer science to neuroscience.ELIGIBILITY: In order to be eligible, candidates with a Ph.D. must have obtained their doctoral degree in the 3 years prior to the submission deadline (between 1 September 2007 and 9 September 2010. Applicants must have at least one lead author paper either accepted for publication, in press or published, in a peer-reviewed international journal on 9 September 2010.AMOUNT: See website for detailed information.REGISTRATION DEADLINE: August 26, 2010APPLICATION DEADLINE: September 9, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.hfsp.org/how/appl_forms_CDF.php
Aug 31 - Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute: Millennium Development Goals Research GrantFunds will be provided to a bi-national research team to undertake public policy relevant research toward one or more of the eight United Nations Millennium Development Goals. The Millennium Development Goals are as follows:
Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Achieve universal primary education Promote gender equality and empower women Reduce child mortality Improve maternal health Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases Ensure environmental sustainability Develop a global partnership for development
ELIGIBILITY: The lead applicant must be an individual researcher/faculty member or research team affiliated with a Canadian or Indian member institution of the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute. The applicant must have a partner in the other country.AMOUNT: $80,000DEADLINE: August 31, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.sici.org/programmes/details/shastri-millennium-development-research-grants/
Aug 31 - The Drummond Foundation: Request for ApplicationsThe Drummond Foundation invites applications from clinical investigators working in Canada andinterested in improving the quality of life of socially, mentally, or physically disadvantaged elderlyindividuals and their families. Studies concerning community dwelling seniors with compromisedautonomy will be favored. The applicant should be a relatively new investigator not yet ready to seek CIHR funding, or an investigator making a bridge to a new field, and is new to the Drummond Foundation.
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AMOUNT: Up to $50,000 for a one year period.DEADLINE: August 31, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.drummondfoundation.ca/pdf/Drummond%20Foundation%20RFA%2007-08%20ENG.pdf
Sep 1 - Alcoholic Beverage Medical Research Foundation: Research GrantsThe Foundation accepts applications for grants to conduct research on important aspects of alcohol consumption and its effects. Overall, the following areas are more directly related to the mission of the Foundation, and therefore, are of greater interest:
Factors influencing transitions in drinking patterns and behavior, Effects of moderate use of alcohol on health and well-being, Mechanisms underlying the behavioral and biomedical effects of alcohol, Biobehavioral/interdisciplinary research on the etiology of alcohol misuse.
The Foundation does not encourage applications on treatment of the complications of advanced alcoholism. However, research involving treatment intended to elucidate the pathogenesis of alcohol-related problems will be considered. Non-research activities such as education projects, public awareness efforts, and referral services are not eligible for support. The Foundation does not support training of pre- and post-doctoral fellows, graduate students and medical students, interns, and residents. It does not fund thesis or dissertation research. Grants are made to academic and research institutions in the United States and Canada -- not to individuals. AMOUNT: Grants are awarded for either one or two years for a maximum of $50,000 for each of the years.DEADLINE: September 1, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.abmrf.org/grant_program.asp
Sep 1 - Institute for Research on Gambling Disorders: Large GrantsThe Large Grants program supports substantial research investigations in the field of gambling disorders.ELIGIBILITY: Foreign institutions are required to collaborate with a U.S. institution. Applications with an international focus must have a principal investigator and fiscal agent based at a U.S. institution.AMOUNT: Up to $75,000 per year for two years.LOI DEADLINE: May 1, 2010APPLICATION DEADLINE: September 1, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.gamblingdisorders.org/project-grants/funding-opportunities
Sep 1 - Oncology Nursing Society: Mentored Planning GrantThe purpose of the ONS Foundation Mentored Planning Grant Award is to provide development support for new scientists. Funding supports a new investigator to work closely with an established researcher mentor to develop a research proposal. At the end of the funding period, an ONS Foundation Small Grant Application is submitted on October 1 for consideration of a $10,000 small grant award. If ONS Foundation Small Grant funding is received, the investigator and mentor must work together to implement the research study.AMOUNT: The Mentored Planning Grant award is $2,500.00 for development of a proposal for a Small Grant Award.DEADLINE: September 1, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.ons.org/Awards/FoundationAwards/MentoredPlanning
Sep 1 - Paralyzed Veterans of America: Research GrantsBasic ScienceLaboratory research in the basic sciences related to spinal cord injury or disease
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AMOUNT: Up to $75,000 for 1 year or up to $150,000 for 2 yearsClinical ApplicationsClinical and functional studies of the medical, psychosocial, and economic effectsof spinal cord dysfunction, as well as interventions proposed to alleviate theseeffectsAMOUNT: Up to $75,000 for 1 year or up to $150,000 for 2 years.Design and DevelopmentDesign and development of new or improved rehabilitative and assistive devices for individuals with spinal cord dysfunctionAMOUNT: Up to $75,000 for one year or up to $150,000 for 2 yearsPost-doctoral FellowshipsFellowships for postdoctoral students in basic science, clinical applications, or design and development intended to encourage training and specialization in the field of spinal cord researchAMOUNT: Up to $50,000 for 1 year or up to $100,000 for 2 yearsConferences and SymposiaMeetings that provide opportunities for collaboration and interaction among scientists, health care providers, and other professionals involved in the SCI/D research community.AMOUNT: Up to $15,000 per yearDEADLINE: September 1, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.pva.org/site/PageServer?pagename=research_resfdn
Sep 10 - National Lung Cancer Partnership: National Lung Cancer Partnership Young Investigator Research GrantsThe purpose of this Grant Program is to drive research forward that will increase understanding of lung cancer risk, biology, and response to treatment, while ensuring that young investigators have the resources needed for them to succeed as lung cancer researchers. Research that will aid in prevention, detection, diagnosis, screening, treatment, and symptom management of lung cancer is sought. The Young Investigator Research Grant is intended as seed money for young investigators to carry out promising novel research in any facet of lung cancer. Applications pertaining to sex differences in lung cancer are particularly encouraged.ELIGIBILITY: At the time of application, an applicant must hold a doctoral degree (MD, PhD, DO, DrPH, or equivalent) and be a post-doctoral fellow or within the first 5 years of faculty appointment at a not-for-profit institution in the United States or Canada.AMOUNT: Multiple two-year $100,000 awards will be given.DEADLINE: September 10, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.nationallungcancerpartnership.org/index.cfm?page=grants_and_awards
Sep 12 - International Development Research Centre: Internship AwardsThe main goal of the Internship Awards is to provide exposure to research for international development through a program of training in research management and grant administration under the guidance of IDRC program staff. Internships are designed to provide hands-on learning experiences in research program management - in the creation, dissemination and utilization of knowledge from an international perspective. IDRC Program Priorities
Social and Economic Policy Agriculture and Environment Information and Communication Technologies for Development Innovation, Policy and Science Research for Health Equity
ELIGIBILITY: a) must be either Canadian citizens, have permanent resident status in Canada or be citizens of a developing country b) must be either currently registered in a Master's Program at
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a recognized university or have completed a Master's degree in a recognized university. Doctoral students or candidates with a doctoral degree are also eligible to apply c) research must focus on one or several developing countriesAMOUNT: Not specified.DEADLINE: September 12, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-84370-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
Sep 15 - Alfred P. Sloan Foundation: Research FellowshipsThe Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. These fellowships are awarded to researchers in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions to their field.ELIGIBILITY: Candidates for Sloan Research Fellowships are required to:
hold a Ph.D. (or equivalent) in chemistry, physics, mathematics, computer science, economics, neuroscience or computational and evolutionary molecular biology, or in a related interdisciplinary field;
be members of the regular faculty (i.e., tenure track) of a college or university in the United States or Canada; and
be no more than six years from completion of the most recent Ph.D. or equivalent, unless they have held a faculty appointment for less than two years or unless one of the following special circumstances apply: military service, a change of field, or child rearing. If any of the above circumstances do apply, the nomination letter should provide a clear explanation.
AMOUNT: $50,000NOMINATION DEADLINE: September 15, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.sloan.org/fellowships
Sep 27 - NSERC: Idea to Innovation (I2I) ProgramThe program provides funding to college and university faculty members, through defined stages, for research and development activities leading to technology transfer to a new or established Canadian company. Four distinct funding options are proposed, which are characterized by the maturity of the technology or the involvement of an early-stage investment entity or an industrial partner. These options are limited in time. In the Market Assessment, NSERC will share costs of an independent and professional market study with the institutions (including industry liaison office [ILO]). In the Phase I, the direct costs of research will be entirely supported by NSERC; in the Phase II, they will be shared with a private partner. The technology development may begin with a Phase I (Reduction-to-Practice Stage – i.e., demonstrating that the innovation is sufficiently tested and will work for its intended purpose) project followed by a Phase II (Technology Enhancement) project or, if the development is at a later stage, it can start directly with a Phase II project. In any case, the combination of Phase I and Phase II will be limited to a maximum of three years' funding for any given project.AMOUNT: Varies depending on the type of project. See website for details.DEADLINE: September 27, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Professors-Professeurs/RPP-PP/I2I-INNOV_eng.asp
Sep 30 - Pfizer Neuropathic Pain Research Awards ProgramPfizer Canada is strongly committed to improving lives of Canadian patients suffering from neuropathic pain (NeP) and is pleased to support Canadian medical innovation through the Pfizer NeP research grant competition. This competition program aims to fund and support independent NeP research in the areas of basic biomedical, clinical and health service and systems sciences.AMOUNT: Up to $150,000
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DEADLINE: September 30, 2010WEBSITE: https://pfizercns.ca/en/
Oct 1 - Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation: Research GrantsResearch grants are intended to facilitate the scientific investigation of all aspects of cystic fibrosis. Research grants are awarded for a term of one, two, or, in a limited number of instances, three years.AMOUNT: The amount of a grant will be determined by the Medical/Scientific Advisory Committee, following a detailed review of the applicant's proposed budget.NOI DEADLINE: August 3, 2010APPLICATION DEADLINE: October 1, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.cysticfibrosis.ca/en/research/researchgrants.php
Oct 1 - CIHR: Institute Community Support (ICS) Program - IHSPR Travel Awards for Trainees and New InvestigatorsThe new ICS Program is designed to foster community development by providing grants and awards to individuals and organizations for the purposes of aiding research and knowledge translation activities where the circumstances fall outside CIHR's programs; and supporting organizations and activities whose goals are consistent with the institute's and CIHR's vision, mandate and strategic directions. Key highlights of the program include support for travel awards for trainees and new investigators, and support for health services and policy research community development activities. IHSPR will provide travel awards in the 2010 to 2011 fiscal year for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and new investigators to attend and present their research at meetings, conferences (including international conferences) and/or symposia that align with the Institute's mandate and advance their professional development and/or knowledge translation initiatives in health services and policy research.ELIGIBILITY: The grants are for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and new investigators. The applicant must be the first author and presenter of the oral communication or poster. Priority will be given to first-time applicants. AMOUNT: $1000.00DEADLINE: June 2, 2010; October 1, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/38476.html
Oct 5 - NIH Department of Health and Human Services (HHS): Accelerating the Pace of Drug Abuse Research Using Existing Epidemiology, Prevention, and Treatment Research Data (R01)The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) invite applications to support the innovative analysis of existing social science and behavioral data to study the etiology and epidemiology of drug using behaviors (defined as alcohol, tobacco, and other drug), HIV risk behaviors, related disorders, prevention and treatment of these behaviors, and health service utilization including quality, access, and costs. NIDA and NCI encourage coordinated analyses of substance abuse research data that are in public use or that are privately held by a principal investigator. The Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) joins this FOA as part of its effort to promote research on the behavioral and social aspects of health and illness.AMOUNT: Budgets for direct costs of up to $150,000 direct costs per year and a project duration of up to three years may be requested, for a maximum of $450,000 in direct costs over a three-year project period.DEADLINES: February 5, 2010; June 5, 2010; October 5, 2010
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WEBSITE: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-10-018.html
Oct 5 - NIH Department of Health and Human Services (HHS): Obesity Policy Research: Evaluation and Measures (R01)This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages Research Project Grant (R01) applications that propose to (1) conduct evaluation research on obesity-related "natural experiments" (defined here as community and other population-level public policy interventions that may affect diet and physical activity behavior), or (2) develop or validate relevant community-level measures (instruments and methodologies to assess the food and physical activity environments at the community level). The overarching goal of this FOA is to inform public policy and research relevant to (1) diet and physical activity behavior, and (2) weight and health outcomes of Americans.AMOUNT: The total project period for an application submitted in response to this funding opportunity may not exceed 5 years. Because the nature and scope of the proposed research will vary from application to application, it is anticipated that the size and duration of each award will also vary.DEADLINE: February 5, 2010, June 05, 2010, October 5, 2010WEBSITE: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-10-027.html
Oct 16 - NIH Department of Health and Human Services (HHS): Obesity Policy Research: Evaluation and Measures (R03)This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), issued by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health, and the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), encourages Small Research Grant (R03) applications that propose to (1) conduct evaluation research on obesity-related "natural experiments" (defined here as community and other population-level public policy interventions that may affect diet and physical activity behavior), or (2) develop or validate relevant community-level measures (instruments and methodologies to assess the food and physical activity environments at the community level). The overarching goal of this FOA is to inform public policy relevant to diet and physical activity behavior, and weight and health outcomes of Americans. The R03 grant mechanism supports different types of projects including pilot and feasibility studies; secondary analysis of existing data; small, self-contained research projects; development of research methodology; and development of new research technology. The R03 is intended to support small research projects that can be carried out in a short period of time with limited resources.AMOUNT: Budgets for direct costs of up to $50,000 per year and a project duration of up to two years may be requested for a maximum of $100,000 direct costs over a two-year project periodDEADLINE: February 16, 2010, June 16, 2010, October 16, 2010WEBSITE: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-10-029.html
Nov 1 - NSERC: Discovery GrantsDiscovery Grants (DG) Program supports ongoing programs of research (with long-term goals) rather than a single short-term project or collection of projects. These grants recognize the creativity and innovation that are at the heart of all research advances, whether made individually or in teams. Researchers are free to work in the mode most appropriate for the research area. NOI DEADLINE: August 1, 2010. An NOI is mandatory. APPLICATION DEADLINE: November 1, 2010WEBSITE: http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Professors-Professeurs/Grants-Subs/DGIGP-PSIGP_eng.asp
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INTERNAL OPPORTUNITIES
AWARDS (Archive)PRIZES (Archive)
INTERNATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES (Archive)Human Frontier Science program Short-term FellowshipsShort-term fellowships enable researchers to move into new areas by learning state-of-the-art techniques in use abroad or by establishing new research collaborations. These fellowships can last from two weeks to three months in a foreign country. To be eligible, a fellow must either come from or go to a member country.AMOUNT: Travel and living expenses according to guidelinesDEADLINE: Applications may be submitted throughout the year. Decisions on awards will be announced approximately 3-4 months after receipt of the complete application. WEBSITE: http://www.hfsp.org/ and http://www.hfsp.org/how/PDFs/STF_Guidelines_2007.pdf
Canada/China Scholars Exchange Program This program is intended to enhance Chinese and Canadian scholars' knowledge and understanding of each other's country. The government of each country offers awards to scholars of the other country to conduct research. The minimum term is four months, the maximum 12 months. Canadian applicants may be faculty members or students. Canada offers awards to non-academics in China holding senior professional posts (e.g. judges, broadcasters, economists) so that upon their return home they can make a distinctive contribution to life in their country and to mutual understanding between Canada and China. AMOUNT: Participants receive return airfare and a monthly stipendDEADLINE: 6 weeks in advance of project commencementWEBSITE: http://www.dfait.gc.ca/culture/123go_clf1/scholars_exchange-en.asp
International Strategic Opportunities ProgramThe International Strategic Opportunities Program (ISOP) provides funding for strategic international collaborations between Ontario research institutions and the global research community. The goal of the program is to improve Ontario's long-term economic potential by attracting and retaining the best and brightest research talent.ISOP has been developed to:
Facilitate research of scientific importance Increase Ontario's long-term economic potential Attract and retain top international research talent Enhance Ontario's profile in the international research community
Priority will be given to collaborations with researchers in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan, China and India.AMOUNT: Up to $150,000 over three yearsDEADLINE: Completed applications will be reviewed on a quarterly basis.WEBSITE: http://www.mri.gov.on.ca/english/programs/isop/program.asp
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (DFAIT) Going Global Science and Technology Fund 2008-2009The Going Global Science and Technology Fund program is specifically designed to promote and enhance Canada’s international science and technology efforts by supporting Canadian
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researchers in accessing international R&D collaborative opportunities through the development of partnerships with key players in other countries. Objective: To promote public understanding of international development issues, as well as the role that Canadians play in developing countries and countries in transition. AMOUNT: Up to $50,000 DEADLINE: Applications must be submitted 6 weeks in advance of the commencement of the project. WEBSITE: http://www.infoexport.gc.ca/science/gglobal-en.htm
Scottish Office Department of Health Visiting FellowshipsThe Chief Scientist Office invites applications for visiting research fellowships in public health and related areas. The purpose of the scheme is to bring experienced researchers into Scotland to encourage an exchange of ideas and to foster collaboration with researchers, practitioners and policy makers based here. Fellows would be expected to publish at least one significant paper based on their work during the period of the fellowship, and to present their work to Health Department or health service audiences on at least one occasion. Fellowships are tenable in any of the following host institutions:
1. Departments of Scottish universities2. Research units based in or linked with a Scottish university3. NHS Boards (including operating divisions) and other health service organisations in
ScotlandFellowships will be for periods of not less than 3 and no more than 12 months. AMOUNT: Reimburse fellow's employer up to an amount equal to the fellow's salary; travel (for the fellow, partner and dependent children); accommodation; for the period of the fellowship; some research expenses; up to 20% of the fellow's salary towards the costs incurred by the host institutionDEADLINE: ContinuousWEBSITE: http://www.sehd.scot.nhs.uk/cso/ApplyingForFunding/Visiting/VIntro.htm
Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral ResearchersAlexander von Humboldt Foundation enables highly-qualified scientists and scholars from abroad who are just embarking on their academic careers and who completed their doctorates less than four years ago to spend extended periods of research (6-24 months) in Germany. Scientists and scholars from all disciplines and countries may apply. Research projects are carried out in cooperation with academic hosts at research institutions in Germany. Candidates choose their own research projects and their host in Germany and prepare their own research plan. AMOUNT: 2,250 EUR per month plus an allowance for research costs amounting to 800 EUR per month (for research projects in the natural sciences and engineering) and 500 EUR (for research projects in the humanities and social sciences). Additional allowances may include intensive language study, family and travel. DEADLINE: ContinuousWEBSITE: http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/pls/web/docs/F1277/programme_information_p.pdf and http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/771.html
International Development Research Centre (IDRC) -General Research GrantsThe IDRC believe that all of us, private and public sector, north and south, have a role to play in international development. IDRC's core research funding falls under the following broad program areas.- Environment and natural resource management- Information and communication technologies for development- Innovation, policy and science (IPS)
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- Social and economic policy
IDRC will consider supporting stand-alone projects from individual researchers. IDRC's principal approach, however, is to support projects and partnerships proposed by developing-country research institutions. However, this does not exclude South-North partnerships, and Canadian institutions may propose an initiative in collaboration with one or more developing-country partners.
In funding projects, the IDRC place a particular emphasis on the outcomes of research. To ensure that results are used, the IDRC support linkages between local communities and researchers, and among researchers in different institutions around the world. This sharing of knowledge among all the parties involved in the research process adds to the likelihood of success.
The IDRC also fund a number of relatively small exploratory activities in research. If they show promise, they may develop into program initiatives with a greater scope and additional funding.AMOUNT: unspecifiedDEADLINE: continuousWEBSITE: http://www.idrc.ca/institution/ev-56760-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CCFF)The Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation offers several medical and scientific grants and awards throughout the year. The calls for applications are usually announced three months prior to an application deadline.
VISITING ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONAL AWARDS For allied health professionals from abroad who are invited to engage in CF clinical observation or activity at a Canadian institution; or Canadian allied health professionals who wish to visit another clinic in Canada or abroad. To qualify, an allied health professional must be associated with a recognized CF clinic, and be an active member in CF clinical care. Please note: Applications may be submitted at any time, but the Foundation should be consulted in advance with respect to the availability of funds. AMOUNT: unspecifiedDEADLINE: Continuous
VISITING CLINICIAN AWARDS For clinicians from abroad who are invited to engage in CF clinical observation or activity at a Canadian institution; or Canadian clinicians who wish to visit another clinic in Canada or abroad. To qualify, a clinician must be associated with a recognized CF clinic, and be an active member in CF clinical care. It is intended that this experience as a CCFF Visiting Clinician will, in some way, benefit Canadian CF clinical care. Please note: Applications may be submitted at any time, but the Foundation should be consulted in advance with respect to the availability of funds. AMOUNT: unspecifiedDEADLINE: Continuous
VISITING SCIENTIST AWARDS For senior investigators from abroad who are invited to engage in CF research at a Canadian institution; or junior and senior Canadian investigators who wish to work in another laboratory in Canada or abroad. A senior investigator can be considered such if he or she has attained at least the position of an associate professor, or has six years of equivalent experience. It is intended that this experience as a CCFF Visiting Scientist will, in some way, benefit the
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Canadian CF research effort. Please note: Applications may be submitted at any time, but the Foundation should be consulted in advance with respect to the availability of funds. AMOUNT: unspecifiedDEADLINE: ContinuousCCF WEBSITE: http://www.cysticfibrosis.ca/page.asp?id=87
Helmholtz Humboldt Research Award - Helmholtz Research Awards for Internationally Acknowledged Scientists Resident Outside Germany (Helmholtz-Humboldt-Forschungspreise fur Spitzenwissenschaftler aus dem Ausland)Alexander von Humboldt FoundationThe Helmholtz Association and the Humboldt Foundation jointly grant research awards annually to internationally acknowledged scientists from abroad in recognition of their achievements in research to date. Scientists and scholars who are nominated for a Helmholtz-Humboldt Research Award must have contributed fundamental discoveries, new theories or insights that significantly impact their own research area and also reach beyond their specialized field of research.
Award-winners are invited to carry out research projects of their own choice in the fields of energy, Earth and environment, health, key technologies, structure of matter, transportation and space in cooperation with German scientists at one of the 15 member-centres of the Helmholtz Association for six months to one year. At least one further partner from a German university is to be integrated in the research project.NOTE: Nominations for the granting of Helmholtz Research Awards to foreign scientists must be made by established scientists who work at research centres of the Helmholtz Association or cooperating universities. Direct applications are not accepted.AMOUNT: Up to € 85,000 (up to 6 awards annually)DEADLINE: ContinuousWEBSITE: http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/programme/preise/helmholtz.htm
Humboldt Research Award- Scholar Award ProgramsAlexander von Humboldt FoundationThe award is granted in recognition of a researcher's entire achievements to date to scientists and scholars who have contributed fundamental discoveries, new theories, or insights that significantly impact their own research area and also reach beyond their specialized field of research. All disciplines and research areas are eligible.
Awardees are invited to conduct an original research project of their own design in close collaboration with an appropriate colleague in Germany over a period of 6-12 months. The stay may be divided up into segments.NOTE: Nominations must come from respected academics in Germany. Direct applications are not accepted.AMOUNT: up to € 60,000 (up to 100 Humboldt Research Awards annually) DEADLINE: ContinuousWEBSITE: http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/pls/web/wt_show.text_page?p_text_id=6446
Wellcome Trust Principal Research FellowshipsPrincipal Research Fellowships are the most prestigious of the Wellcome Trust's personal awards and provide long-term support for researchers of international standing. The fellowships are particularly suitable for senior researchers currently based overseas who wish to work in the United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland. Candidates will have an established track record in research at the highest level. The Wellcome Trust's funding streams are as follows: Immunology and infectious disease
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Populations and public health Neuroscience and mental health Physiological sciences Molecules, genes and cells
AMOUNT: Awards provide personal salary and research programme funding in full for 7 years and Wellcome Trust may supplement a fellow's basic salary with a Principal Research Fellowship 'distinction' award of up to £50,000.DEADLINE: ContinuousWEBSITE: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Biomedical-science/Grants/Fellowships-and-personal-awards/WTD004406.htm
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research AwardThe von Humboldt foundation grants research awards to young, top-flight scientists and scholars from abroad who are already recognized as outstanding researchers in their fields. The research award is given in recognition of the recipients' research achievements to date. The award winners are also invited to work on research projects of their own choice in cooperation with colleagues in Germany for a period of 6 to 12 months.AMOUNT: €45,000DEADLINE: continuousWEBSITE: http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/5339.html
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)IDRC' supports projects and partnerships proposed by developing-country research institutions, including South-North partnerships. Canadian institutions may propose an initiative in collaboration with one or more developing-country partners. IDRC's core research funding falls under the following broad program areas:- Environment and natural resource management- Information and communication technologies for development- Innovation, policy and science (IPS)- Social and economic policy
IDRC will consider supporting stand-alone projects from individual researchers. In funding projects, the IDRC place a particular emphasis on the outcomes of research. To ensure that results are used, the IDRC support linkages between local communities and researchers, and among researchers in different institutions around the world. This sharing of knowledge among all the parties involved in the research process adds to the likelihood of success. The IDRC also funds a number of relatively small exploratory activities in research. If they show promise, they may develop into program initiatives with a greater scope and additional funding.AMOUNT: no specifiedDEADLINE: ContinuousWEBSITE: http://www.idrc.ca/institution/ev-56760-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
Humboldt Research Awards to Outstanding Scholars Resident Outside GermanyThe Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) grants Humboldt Research Awards to scientists and scholars from abroad with internationally recognized academic qualifications. The research award honours the academic achievements, in any discipline, of the award winner's lifetime. Furthermore, award winners are invited to carry out research projects of their own choice in Germany in cooperation with colleagues for periods of between six months and one year. The nominating scientists and scholars must ensure that sufficient non-financial resources and equipment as well as access to archives and libraries are available, so that it is possible for nominees to accept the invitation to conduct research projects of their own choice in Germany.
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Nominators are also expected to make all necessary preparations for the award winners' research visit to Germany and to be responsible for their well-being (e.g., finding accommodation). Nominations must be made by established researchers working at universities or other research institutions in Germany. Self-nominations are not accepted.AMOUNT: up to €60,000 for research in Germany for 6+ monthsDEADLINE: continuousWEBSITE: http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/6446.html
Lise Meitner Program for Scientists from AbroadThe program is aimed at highly qualified scientists of any discipline whose work could contribute to the scientific development of an Austrian research institution.Eligibility: completed doctoral studies, international scientific publications, invitation from an Austrian research institution.AMOUNT: The award level is dependent on the level of qualification: Post Doc salary (€54,180 per annum) or senior Post Doc salary (€61,240 per annum) plus €8,000 for material, travel, assistance, etc.DEADLINE: ContinuousWEBSITE: http://www.fwf.ac.at/en/projects/meitner.html
Finland Centre for International Mobility (CIMO) FellowshipCIMO Fellowship program supports young researchers to travel to Finnish universities. The objective is to encourage academic mobility to Finland and to promote international cooperation in research and teaching. The programme is open to all academic fields.AMOUNT: Monthly allowance is €800-1,200 (in 2009) to cover living expenses in Finland for a single person. The award period is 3-12 months. DEADLINE: ContinuousWEBSITE: http://finland.cimo.fi/scholarships/postgraduate_studies_and_research/cimo_fellowships.html
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CONTINUOUS SUBMISSION PROCESSAlcoa Foundation: Community Focused GivingThe foundation's grant making focus centers on four distinct Areas of Excellence: Conservation and Sustainability, Safe and Healthy Children and Families, Global Education and Workplace Skills, and Business and Community Partnerships. The foundation gives priority consideration to programs and organizations in or near communities where Alcoa has a presence.The foundation focuses its resources on partners working to mobilize action in the following four priority focus areas:1. Sustainable environment2. Building tomorrows workforce and leaders3. Community health and safety4. Community capacity and resilienceAMOUNT: The minimum grant request is US$15,000DEADLINE: Continuous
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WEBSITE: http://www.alcoa.com/global/en/community/foundation/info_page/about_working_foundation.asp
Autism Speaks: Trailblazer AwardAutism Speaks places a high priority on innovation and has designed its new Trailblazer Award to respond quickly to arising opportunities and highly novel ideas. The Trailblazer Award mechanism will support highly novel “out of the box” autism-relevant research that addresses significant roadblocks or that can open new avenues to understanding the causes, diagnosis, subtyping, prevention, treatments, and cure of autism spectrum disorders. The Trailblazer Award mechanism is designed to fund small investigator-initiated high risk/high impact projects that are potentially transformative. Good fits include: 1) projects that may be too risky for regular research mechanisms, including the Autism Speaks pilot study research grants, and/or 2) studies that are time-sensitive in their ability to leverage an exceptional opportunity for conducting highly innovative and relevant ASD research. The proposed Trailblazer project:
Must explore a highly novel idea or research technique that potentially could have high impact, i.e., have the capacity to change the way we diagnose, subtype, prevent, and/or treat ASD or the way we conduct relevant research on ASD.
Is not required to have preliminary data. Should be considered risky as to not likely be supported though other AS grants
programs, including pilot studies. May come from newer or established investigators with demonstrated expertise and
experience in autism and/or from investigators in non-autism areas of research that will be applied directly to autism research.
AMOUNT: Awards are limited to a period of 12 months and an amount up to $80,000DEADLINE: ContinousWEBSITE: http://www.autismspeaks.org/science/research/grants/open_grants_how_to_apply.php
Cerebral Palsy International Research Foundation: Research GrantThe Foundation provides funding for pilot studies on research important to the prevention and treatment of cerebral palsy, including improvement in the quality of life of persons with disabilities due to cerebral palsy and closely related developmental brain disorders. This broad research agenda includes basic, clinical and applied research in the biomedical and bioengineering sciences. Research grant applications are reviewed for scientific merit by the Foundation’s Scientific Advisory Council and then for funding by the Foundation’s Board of Directors. Grants are awarded on a competitive basis taking into account scientific merit, scientific and clinical significance and relevance to cerebral palsy.AMOUNT: Grants are generally awarded for up to 2 years at a maximum of $50,000 a year.LOI DEADLINE: ContinuousWEBSITE: http://cpirf.org/research/grant-applications
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Scientific and Environmental Affairs DivisionNATO Programme for Security Through Science Research Infrastructure Support: Computer Networking - Networking Infrastructure GrantsNetworking Infrastructure Grants (NIGs) provide assistance to Partner country research institutions in purchasing equipment that will improve the level and the quality of telecommunication facilities. In addition, NIGs provide training, software and travel to promote distance-learning programs and collaborative projects based on electronic communication. These grants are intended primarily
to provide connectivity to partner communities which are not yet connected to the internet; to increase the number of users in a given partner community already connected;
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to provide equipment, training, software and travel for communication and not for research purposes;
to promote distance-learning programs; and to develop virtual communities of experts in a field.
ELIGIBILITY: To be eligible for support a project must include non-profit-making institutions or research establishments from one or more Partner countries and must be presented in collaboration with an institution from a NATO country. Applications from single institutions will be given lower priority. Low priority will also be given to applications for substantial upgrades of existing, operational infrastructure which already has reasonable national and/or international connectivity. Project participants are senior scientists responsible for the project who are group leaders of the collaborating teams. Two project participants - one from a NATO country and one from a partner country - should be designated Project Co-Directors. Any person can apply for a NATO grant who is an expert in the field for which he/she is applying and who has his/her main residence in a NATO, Partner or Mediterranean Dialogue country with mailing address and contact details in that country (the person should be settled in the country and not just a short-term visitor).DEADLINE: ContinuousWEBSITE: http://www.nato.int/science/nato_funded_activities/grant_mechanisms/nig-nfa.htm
Weeden Foundation Population ProgramThe Weeden Foundation supports high leverage population projects with advocacy components to influence policy makers and opinion leaders. Additionally, foundation funds have supported the creation of educational materials, site-specific demonstration projects (frequently near biological reserves), and innovative media approaches to raising awareness about family planning and reproductive health both in the U.S. and abroad. Over the past decade, the foundation has also supported efforts in Nepal, Mexico, and across Latin America to promote reproductive rights and create better access to reproductive health services. Only rarely has the foundation made international population grants to locations outside its target region of Latin America. Currently the foundation is supporting a group of grants that aim to opportunistically promote reproductive rights across the Latin American region.AMOUNT: average $20,000DEADLINE: approximately six weeks prior to each meeting (March, June, and October)WEBSITE: http://www.weedenfdn.org/wfguides.html
Canadian Health Services Research Foundation Decision Support Synthesis ProgramThe foundation's Decision Support Synthesis program aims to contribute the best available evidence to decision-making in a particular policy or management context. Decision support syntheses are driven by the information needs of decision makers and produce recommendations for policy and management through a deliberative process that involves key stakeholders. These syntheses incorporate different types and sources of evidence, including research results and promising practices. Decision support syntheses are distinct from knowledge support syntheses. Knowledge support syntheses summarize the research evidence and strive for greater general applicability and contribution to the knowledge pool. Cochrane-style systematic reviews are examples of high quality knowledge support syntheses. Decision support syntheses, on the other hand, include summarizing evidence as well as other tasks required to support decision-making in a particular context, such as determining recommendations for action and considering factors relevant to implementing change. The foundation's current priority research themes (2008-2011) are as follows: Workforce and the Work Environment Quality and Patient Safety Values-based Decision-making and Public Engagement
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Change Management for Improved Practice and Improved HealthAMOUNT: up to $130,000DEADLINE: continuous WEBSITE: http://www.chsrf.org/dss/index_e.php
Multiple Sclerosis Scientific Research Foundation - Pilot GrantsThe purpose of the Pilot Program is to provide limited short-term support of research related to multiple sclerosis in areas where preliminary data are scant or nonexistent. Research proposals submitted to this program should represent unique or novel ideas with the potential to open significant new avenues of research on MS. Projects that are extensions of on-going research programs, or that already have ample supporting data, should be submitted to the regular grant program. Applicants must hold a full time faculty position at a Canadian university or research institution.AMOUNT: up to $35,000 for 1 yearDEADLINES: Applications for Pilot Project Awards may be submitted at any time but will only be reviewed between April 1st and August 1st. WEBSITE: http://www.mssociety.ca/en/research/pdf/MSSC_pilotapp.pdf
Spencer Foundation Research ProgramsThe Spencer Foundation provides funding for investigations that promise to yield new knowledge about education in the United States or abroad. The foundation funds research grants that range in size from smaller grants that can be completed within a year, to larger, multi-year endeavors.
Concerned with advancing the learning and development of children and adults, Spencer is interested in studies that lead to better understanding and improvements in the intellectual, material, and organizational resources that contribute to successful teaching and learning. A key aim of research in this initiative is to support investigations of questions that are grounded directly in teaching practice as well as in research about important aspects of teaching and learning processes that hold promise for enriching opportunities to learn and for guiding informed policymaking. The foundation is particularly interested in studies of teaching and teacher development.AMOUNT: $5,000 - $400,000DEADLINE: variesWEBSITE: http://www.spencer.org/content.cfm/teaching-learning-and-instructional-resources
Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme (ASPP)The Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme (ASPP) is designed to assist the publication of works of advanced scholarship in the humanities and social sciences that make a significant contribution to knowledge, but that are unlikely to be self-supporting. In general, only book-length manuscripts (at least 100 typescript pages) about to be published in Canada by approved Canadian presses are eligible for consideration. Collective works must constitute the result of a collaborative effort; furthermore, there must be substantive integration of the chapters. Critical bibliographies, critical editions, reference works, and documentary collections that fulfill a real need in the scholarly community and that are distinguished by completeness, accuracy, full reference material, and necessary critical comments, may be considered eligible.
The ASPP does not provide grants for the publication of textbooks, technical reports, original works of poetry, fiction, and drama, scholarly journals and articles, or conference proceedings. AMOUNT: $8,000DEADLINE: ContinuousWEBSITE: http://www.fedcan.ca/english/aspp/about/
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Global Commerce Support Program - Going Global InnovationThe Going Global Science and Technology (S&T) Program is specifically designed to promote and enhance Canada's international science and technology efforts by supporting Canadian researchers in accessing international R&D collaborative opportunities through the development of partnerships with key players in other countries/economies. The Going Global S&T Program supports activities (''projects'') that aim to build on targeted relationships between Canadian researchers and key players in other countries and allow them to proceed with the formal discussions required to initiate collaboration on future international research and development initiatives. The program funding is used for the face-to-face encounters needed to solidify the partnership and move it forward to the point where the researchers can begin the R&D phase of the initiative. These meetings may be used to formulate the partnership and conduct detailed planning of their collaborative R&D initiative (i.e., to define objectives, activities, timelines, responsibilities, etc.).AMOUNT: $5,000 - $75,000 (matched fund program)DEADLINE: ContinuousWEBSITE: http://www.tradecommissioner.gc.ca/eng/science/going_global.jsp
Relation between Education and Social OpportunityThe Spencer Foundation provides funding for research projects that study education in the United States and abroad. The foundation funds research grants that range in size from smaller grants that can be completed within a year, to larger, multi-year endeavors. The foundation seeks to shed light on the role education plays in reducing economic and social inequalities - as well as, sometimes, reinforcing them - and to find ways to more fully realize education's potential to promote more equal opportunity. Expanded opportunity is important not only to a society's economic well being but to the character of its civic, cultural, and social life as well.
Education enriches and expands people's lives in many ways, including through their employment opportunities, their civic and political involvements, and the quality of their personal lives. The foundation's interests therefore extend to studies that examine the ways in which differences in educational experiences (including quality and character of schooling as well as number of years in school) translate into differences in employment, earnings, and civic and social outcomes. Such work can help identify ways to change schooling investments and outcomes in the interests of a more just and prosperous society.AMOUNT: $5,000 - $400,000 (indirect costs 15% for grants great than $50,000)DEADLINE: ContinuousWEBSITE: http://www.spencer.org/content.cfm/education-and-social-opportunity
Canadian Health Services Research Foundation Commissioned Activities: Policy Synthesis ProgramWorking with decision-maker partners who are developing health policy options, the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF) commissions researchers to synthesize evidence and experience in a specified area. The foundation will disseminate these peer-reviewed policy syntheses in English and French to both co-sponsor partners and the health services community. Both researchers and policy makers can use the Policy Synthesis Program.
A policy synthesis draws together published literature, grey literature, decision makers' experience, and researchers' knowledge and experience to make best practice recommendations for a specified area of policy development under active consideration by identified and interested decision makers.
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Researchers may contact CHSRF to express interest in being available for the program. If an interested researcher's area becomes the focus of one of CHSRF's commissioning exercises the researcher will be invited (at CHSRF expense) to the kick-off Round Table. At this event decision makers and researchers, all active in the area, debate the scope of the synthesis and the issues it should address. Researchers may then submit a bid for the commission.
For policy makers charged with reforming some area of health services, the foundation might be able to assist by acting as the broker and convenor, offering opportunities to brainstorm with researchers and other decision makers active in the area. At the end of the process policy makers also get a high-quality peer-reviewed synthesis of the relevant research and experience to inform their final decisions. From beginning to end, the policy synthesis process takes a year or even longer. But for less than policy makers are likely spend on consultants, they can get the expertise of Canada's health services research community.DEADLINE: ContinuousWEBSITE: http://www.chsrf.org/funding_opportunities/commissioned_research/index_e.php
OHTN Community-Based Research Capacity-Building FundsThe OHTN aims to encourage and support HIV-related research in Ontario across the streams of basic, clinical, epidemiological and socio-behavioural science. CBR Capacity-Building Funds are intended to: develop and support scientifically rigorous and policy-relevant research proposals that
address social justice and determinants of health priority issues using a CBR framework; enable community organizations to build strategic alliances and infrastructure with academic
partners (and vice-versa) related to CBR; enhance research protocol development skills (e.g., methodological expertise, policy-
relevance) and other relevant research skills for community-based researchers that may include internships, workshops, practicum or other mechanisms for developing CBR capacity;
enhance the ability of people living with HIV/AIDS (and other affected communities) to meaningfully engage in CBR initiatives or the sector in general;
enable community organizations, in concert with academic and other stakeholders, opportunities to assess relevant community research needs, questions and priorities; and
enable CBR teams to develop and implement effective KTE activities.AMOUNT: up to $25,000DEADLINE: ContinuousWEBSITE: http://www.ohtn.on.ca/OHTNFundCalls.htm
CPS Small Grants for Local and Regional Initiatives in Pain Education and Organizational DevelopmentThe Canadian Pain Society (CPS) offers small grants in support of projects designed to improve pain management or to promote education about pain. Examples of such projects include: One-time grant for seed money to establish an interdisciplinary pain interest group, paying for
communication (printing, postage, fax) and other direct startup costs Forgivable loan in support of an educational conference or seminar, money to be repaid to the
Society if the conference makes a profit Grant to support cooperative activities (e.g., printing and distribution of information) by groups
(formal or informal) of people who have painAMOUNT: $1,250DEADLINE: continuousWEBSITE: http://www.canadianpainsociety.ca/grants.html
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CIHR & Institute of Health Services and Policy Research Institute- Community Support ProgramThe new ICS Program is designed to foster community development by providing grants and awards to individuals and organizations for the purposes of aiding research and knowledge translation activities where the circumstances fall outside CIHR's programs; and supporting organizations and activities whose goals are consistent with the institute's and CIHR's vision, mandate and strategic directions. Key highlights of the program include support for travel awards for trainees and new investigators, and support for health services and policy research community development activities. IHSPR's ICS funding will be distributed among the following opportunities: IHSPR travel awards for trainees (including postdoctoral fellows) and new investigators Health services and policy research community development activities that align with IHSPR's
mandate and either one or more of (a) IHSPR's priority research themes or (b) the Listening for Direction III themes
The ICS Program is not intended to support the direct cost of research (e.g., pilot projects, feasibility studies or operating grants), principal and co-investigator salaries or research equipment.AMOUNT: unspecified, except in the category of IHSPR Travel Awards for Trainees and New Investigators: the maximum amount for a single travel award is $5,000. (The total amount available for the program for fiscal year 2008-2009 is $50,000)DEADLINE: Continuous. Applications are accepted on the 25th of every month with decisions announced six weeks laterWEBSITE: http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/36098.html
NSERC Visiting Fellowships in Canadian Government Laboratories (VF)This program provides promising young scientists and engineers with the opportunity to work with research groups or leaders in Canadian government laboratories and research institutions. Fellowships are tenable in various Canadian government departments and agencies (e.g. Pacific Region [Health Canada], Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch [Product Safety Programme and Safe Environments Programme], Health Products and Food Branch [Food Directorate, Biologics and Genetic Therapies Directorate, Regional Laboratories], Public Health Agency of Canada [Centre for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Microbiology Laboratory-Winnipeg, Manitoba], Industry Canada)AMOUNT: $43,724 for one year, plus travel expenses. The fellowship may be renewed for a second and possibly a third year.DEADLINE: ContinuousWEBSITE: http://www.nserc.gc.ca/sf_e.asp?nav=vfnav&lbi=3d
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) Conference GrantTo support scientific meetings, conferences and workshops relevant to diabetesDEADLINE: Applications are accepted for consideration throughout the year.
Canadian Heritage Multiculturalism Program Community Action ProjectsFunding provided under the terms of the Multiculturalism Program focuses on initiatives to achieve the following program objectives: 1. Ethno-cultural/racial minorities participate in public decision-making (civic participation). To assist in the development of strategies that facilitate full and active participation of ethnic, racial, cultural, and religious communities in Canadian society. 2. Communities and the broad public engage in informed dialogue and sustained action to combat racism (anti-racism/anti-hate/ cross-cultural understanding). To increase public awareness,
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understanding and informed public dialogue about multiculturalism, racism, and cultural diversity in Canada. To facilitate collective community initiatives and responses to ethnic, racial, cultural, and religious conflict and hate-motivated activities. 3. Public institutions eliminate systemic barriers (institutional change). To improve the ability of public institutions to respond to ethnic, racial, cultural, and religious diversity by assisting in the identification and removal of barriers to equitable access and by supporting the involvement of these ethno-racial/cultural communities in the public decision-making process.
In 2008-09, the Multiculturalism Program will pay particular attention to the following priorities:1. Support the economic, social, and cultural integration of new Canadians and cultural communities2. Facilitate programs such as mentorship, volunteerism, leadership,and civic education among at-risk cultural youth3. Promote inter-cultural understanding and Canadian values(democracy, freedom, human rights and rule of law) throughcommunity initiatives, with the objective of addressing issuesof cultural social exclusion (parallel communities) and radicalization
Under the Multiculturalism Program, the Government of Canada providesfunding assistance in the form of grants and contributions for eligible projects that- address an issue related to one or more of the program objectives orpriorities as listed above;- use social development approaches to achieve measurable results;- involve the broad community (community-based, neighbourhood-basedand/or coalitions that are inclusive);- focus on action and measurable results leading to sustainable and lasting changes to address community issues;- involve partnerships, such as other federal departments; provincial,territorial and municipal levels of governments; public institutions;collaboration with the private or the voluntary sector, etc.
Projects developed to support youth should be relevant to youth, resonate with young people, and include their involvement in the planning, delivery, and evaluation of the project.AMOUNT: Unspecified. Pertinent, reasonable, and essential expenses required to carry out the project will be considered to be eligible expensesDEADLINE: continuousWEBSITE: http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/multi/program/index_e.cfm
Alberta Gaming and Research Institute (AGRI) Institute Small Research GrantsThe purpose of this program is to enhance the ability of researchers to conduct gambling related research. Research funding could, for example, be used for the development of pilot projects, annotated literature reviews, instruments or questionnaires, or the administration of a survey.AMOUNT: up to $10,000DEADLINE: ContinuousWEBSITE: http://www.abgaminginstitute.ualberta.ca//pdfs/small_grant_guide.pdf
CHEO Individual Professional Development Awards Provincial Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health at CHEO Professional Development Awards in Child and Youth Mental Health aim to give successful applicants an opportunity to actively pursue a re-training, enhanced training, and/or re-tooling
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opportunity, typically in another setting, so as to increase capacity in their home-based organization/agency. This award is not intended to fund attendance at conferences. Examples of such training might include: spending time within a leading organization/agency to observe and learn about their approach(es) to an intervention; coursework in research methods or epidemiology from an academic institution; condensed learning in a therapeutic modality or clinical program/evaluation-based framework and; working within a research laboratory to learn about a specific approach to research in child and youth mental health. AMOUNT: $10,000DEADLINE: OpenWEBSITE: http://www.onthepoint.ca/funding/forms/pda/pdainstructions_indiv.pdf
CHEO Group Professional Development Awards Provincial Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health at CHEO Professional Development Awards in Child and Youth Mental Health aim to give successful applicants an opportunity to actively pursue a re-training, enhanced training, and/or re-tooling opportunity, typically in another setting, so as to increase capacity in their home-based organization/agency. This award is not intended to fund attendance at conferences. Examples of such training might include: spending time within a leading organization/agency to observe and learn about their approach(es) to an intervention; coursework in research methods or epidemiology from an academic institution; condensed learning in a therapeutic modality or clinical program/evaluation-based framework and; working within a research laboratory to learn about a specific approach to research in child and youth mental health. AMOUNT: up to $35,000DEADLINE: OpenWEBSITE: http://www.onthepoint.ca/funding/forms/pda/pdainstructions_grp.pdf
Max Bell Foundation Project GrantsThe Max Bell Foundation reflects the spirit and intent of its founder to improve Canadian society. The foundation encourages the development of innovative ideas that impact public policies and practices with an emphasis on health and wellness, education, and the environment. The foundation will consider supporting projects that fit their mission, strategy, and granting guidelines, and that fall within or bridge their program areas.
In the area of health and wellness, the foundation is interested in supporting projects that promote good health in the broadest sense. They are particularly interested in identifying practical, alternative approaches to the creation and maintenance of the programs and policies that shape Canada's health care practices.
Max Bell Foundation believes education is a cornerstone of a flourishing, productive society. Canada's education institutions face many challenges as changing needs, attitudes, economies, and technologies shift the ground in which they are rooted. The foundation seeks to support research projects that focus on innovative ways in which our education institutions meet those challenges. Of particular interest are those projects which address the thoughtful use of technology and alternative institutional arrangements.
In the area of the environment, the foundation seeks to support projects that understand and take account of the social and economic contexts in which environmental concerns emerge as public policy and practice.AMOUNT: unspecified (1-5 years)DEADLINE: ContinuousWEBSITE: http://www.maxbell.org/granting.htm#project
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Other: CIHR President’s FundCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchCIHR uses the President's Fund to provide grants that are used to:
support organizations and initiatives whose goal is consistent with CIHR's vision, mandate and strategic directions; and provide assistance for seminars, education programs and other research related events that are hosted by research or educational organizations where the objectives of the event align with the interests of CIHR overall and not individual Institutes;
provide special, one-time grants or awards in aid of research where the circumstances fall outside CIHR's other programs
Note: the President's Fund will no longer provide financial assistance for knowledge translation related conferences, workshops and symposia AMOUNT: variesDEADLINE: continuousWEBSITE: http://www.researchnet-recherchenet.ca/rnr16/viewOpportunityDetails.do?prog=307&&view=currentOpps&org=CIHR&type=AND&resultCount=25&sort=program&all=1&masterList=true
Thrasher Research FoundationThe Thrasher Research Fund supports clinical/translational pediatric research. Emphasis is placed on projects with potential findings that would be clinically applicable in a relatively short period of time for the prevention, diagnosis and/or treatment of pediatric medical problems. The Fund seeks to maintain a portfolio of grants with a balance of both domestic and international research. Projects are supported for up to 3 years. Amounts awarded and time periods vary depending on the specific needs of each proposal. Over the last several years awards from the Fund have ranged from a few thousand dollars to approximately $400,000. The Fund’s median award is $230,000 (majority between $150,000- $300,000).
DEADLINE: Concept papers are accepted on a rolling basis with no specific deadline for submission. The investigator can usually expect notification about the concept in 6-8 weeks depending on the time of submission and the number of concepts received by the Fund. Notification is made by return e-mail.
WEBSITE:http://www.thrasherresearch.org/Default.aspx?page=202 andhttp://www.thrasherresearch.org/sites/www_thrasherresearch_org/Default.aspx?page=37
Jacobs FoundationJacobs Foundation mainly finances research and intervention projects with a great potential for roll-out and dissemination. Proposals are welcomed from all disciplines and the foundation supports research that is qualitative and quantitative. Interdisciplinary collaboration and research that involves co-operation between researchers and practitioners, or between professionals in different countries are an advantage. Pilot studies and pilot innovations are encouraged and the foundation will also accept proposals for studies that capitalize and build on some larger already-funded research program. Projects need to show a sound project design responding to the needs of the target groups. Within this general framework the current priorities of the foundation are:
a) Capitalising on migration, including the integration of youth with a second and third generation migrant background and managing the effects of youth migration.b) Improving contexts of learning, including institutional dimensions of learning, all day learning, out of school learning, integrative approaches to learning, etc.
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c) Economic dimensions of Productive Youth Development: macro and micro economic effects
Within this general framework, the following transversal topics are of particular interest: - developmental perspectives- transitions in the life course- preventive inter-medial measures- ways of learning, such as formal and non-formal learning- cultural contexts and values- competencies and social responsibility- peace, inter-cultural, inter-religious dialogue
Amount: Swiss Franc (CHF) 5,000 to CHF 300,000. WEBSITE: http://www.jacobsfoundation.org/ Procedures or http://fundingopps.cos.com/cgi-bin/getRec?id=9625
Special Emphasis Notice (SEN): AHRQ Research on Diagnostic Errors in Ambulatory Care Settings (Unsolicited Proposals)Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)In FY 2008, AHRQ intends to support research designed to gain a better understanding of the incidence, cost, determinants, and strategies for preventing or mitigating diagnostic errors (i.e., misdiagnosis, missed diagnosis, delayed diagnosis) in ambulatory care settings. Note that for the purposes of this Special Emphasis Notice, ambulatory care refers to health care provided in emergency departments; clinicians' offices and practices, both large and small; outpatient clinics; community health centers; urgent care centers, and ambulatory surgery centers. Researchers from non-ambulatory settings with a strong interest in fostering safe, high quality ambulatory care and transitions are welcome to apply, but must do so in partnership with an ambulatory care organization. In particular, a focus on transitions between ambulatory care, home care, and nursing homes is critical to the success of ambulatory care for many elderly and chronically ill populationsAMOUNT: R01 and R18 mechanisms to no more than $300,000 per year. R03 applications are limited to total (direct plus indirect) costs of no more than $100,000 per year.DEADLINE: continuousWEBSITE: http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-HS-08-002.html
Hunter’s Hope Foundation Major and Pilot Research Grant ProgramProjects funded by Hunter's Hope investigate new treatment approaches for Krabbe or other leukodystrophies or study basic mechanisms related to these diseases. Areas of relevant research include, among others: gene therapy; myelin development; neuro-degeneration and transplantation; developmental neurobiology and molecular biology.AMOUNT: Major Research Grants up to $100,000 per year for 1-3 years; Pilot Research Grant up to $30,000 for 1 year (renewal possible)DEADLINE: Grants can be submitted any time, but only exceptional research directly related to a treatment/cure for Krabbe disease will be considered.WEBSITE: http://www.huntershope.org/research/policies.asp
NSERC: Engage Grants The Engage Grants (EG) Program is intended to give companies that operate from a Canadian base access to the unique knowledge and expertise available at Canadian universities. This program is intended to foster the development of new research partnerships between academic
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researchers and companies that have never collaborated together before, by supporting short-term research and development projects aimed at addressing a company-specific problem.NOTE: As the purpose of the EG Program is to foster the development of a new relationship between a company and the academic researcher, there can be no existing or past relationship between the two parties, including a previous research collaboration, consulting contract, or involvement on the part of the academic researcher in the company.AMOUNT: Up to $25,000.00 for up to 6 months.DEADLINE: AnytimeWEBSITE: http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Professors-Professeurs/RPP-PP/Engage-Engagement_eng.asp
NSERC: Interaction GrantsThe Interaction Grants (IG) Program is intended to give companies that operate from a Canadian base and researchers from Canadian universities. an opportunity to meet and identify a company-specific problem they could solve by collaborating in a subsequent research partnership. These interactions are expected to result in economic benefits to Canada.NOTE: As the purpose of the Interaction Grant is to foster new relationships between companies and academic researchers, there can be no existing or past relationship between the parties, including previous research collaboration, consulting contract or involvement on the part of the academic researcher in the company.AMOUNT: Up to $5,000 for up to 3 monthsDEADLINE: AnytimeWEBSITE: http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Professors-Professeurs/RPP-PP/Interaction-Interaction_eng.asp
NSERC- Strategic Workshops ProgramThe Strategic Workshops Program (SWP) is intended to fund workshops for building new collaborations between Canadian academic researchers and the industry and government receptor community. The program is primarily intended to seed new collaborations in the areas of research targeted by the Strategic Project Grants (SPG) and the Strategic Network Grants (SNG) programs, yet does not exclude other fields of research supported by NSERC. SWP is a three year pilot initiative. Workshops are intended for small, highly focused groups, with attendance not expected to exceed 20 participants. An award may support Canadian and foreign participation, but the workshops must be held in Canada. Funds may be used to organize a single workshop or several events of more limited participation. AMOUNT: up to $25,000DEADLINE: ContinuousWEBSITE: http://www.nserc.gc.ca/professors_e.asp?nav=profnav&lbi=swp
ING Foundation- Support for Organizations and Projects That Inspire Inventiveness and Independence in Canada's YouthING Canada has established the ING Foundation, which strives to support organizations and projects that inspire inventiveness and independence in Canada's youth. Through investments in high-potential community opportunities, the ING Foundation is committed to empowering Canada's young people to achieve their full potential, and build stronger communities for the future. At the same time, ING Canada strives to enhance local capacity in the communities where their employees and stakeholders live, work and unite. The foundation welcomes the opportunity to help local organizations and groups.
ING Canada has carefully chosen two core areas where they feel their expertise and support can help to make a difference:
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Empowering Canada's next generation of aspiring leaders and citizens. Enhancing communities where ING Canada employees and stakeholders live and work, and
encouraging the involvement and citizenship of ING Canada employees and brokers.
In the ''Empowering Canada's youth'' category, the foundation will consider providing community investment support to organizations, programs or projects that empower Canada's next generation of leaders and citizens to achieve their full potential. The foundation emphasizes projects that strive to: Mentor tomorrow's leaders. The foundation supports interactive and formalized mentoring and
leadership development programs that encourage and empower Canada's youth to realize their potential.
Reduce youth-on-youth violence. This will focus on interventions that address the causes and solutions of the growing problem of bullying and other forms of youth-on-youth violence at school and among peer groups. The foundation hopes to help provide a school and youth environment that is safe and free from bullying.
Build resilience and independence among youth at risk. The foundation aids organizations and social programs that foster resilience, prevention and independence among youth whose lives are at risk due to family poverty, homelessness or conflict. The foundation believes that programs that enable and equip high-risk youth will help break the cruel cycle of poverty and inter-personal conflict.
Improve quality of life for young people, especially those who are ill or disadvantaged. This includes programs that help children and teens facing serious or life-threatening illness or who are disabled or socio-economically vulnerable
AMOUNT: unspecifiedDEADLINE: continuousWEBSITE: http://www.ingcanada.com/en/ing_foundation.html
MITACS: Accelerate ProgramA unique multi-disciplinary internship program managed by MITACS Inc which connects companies, governments and not-for-profit organizations with the vast research expertise within Canada's universities.
Organizations which are not eligible to be partners include: Funding agencies University-based research centres Foreign companies
An intern spends approximately half of their time over a four-month period on site with the partner, gaining a better understanding of the research issue in question. The balance of the intern's time is spent back at the university, further advancing the research under the guidance of a faculty supervisor. Internships can be combined into larger, 8- or 12-month projects.AMOUNT: Each 4-month internship project receives $15,000 in direct funding, with the partner organization and MITACS each providing $7,500ORS DEADLINE: Ten working days prior to submission to agency.AGENCY DEADLINE: Applicants are encouraged to submit proposals at least 6 months before the date of the event.WEBSITE: http://www.mitacs.ca/main.php?mid=10000321&pid=240
Wellcome Trust Programme GrantsBiomedical Science; Health Consequences of Population Change (HCPC)Programme grants provide support for up to five years for internationally competitive research relevant to human and animal health. This longer-term funding gives researchers the opportunity to concentrate on a programme of research without having continually to seek funds from a
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variety of sources to maintain the group. The Wellcome Trust encourages holders of programme grants to pursue new ideas and avenues as they arise. The trust would particularly like to promote research in the following areas: - Adjuvant identification and development - Stem cells - The 3Rs (replacement, refinement, reduction) - Influenza research
Applicants should direct any enquiries to the appropriate funding stream:- Immunology and Infectious Disease- Populations and Public Health- Neuroscience and Mental Health- Physiological Sciences- Molecules, Genes and Cells
The trust now has a separate scheme for proposals for the development of technologies and biomedical resources.AMOUNT: recent awards have rarely exceeded £1,200,000DEADLINE: ContinuousWEBSITE: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Biomedical-science/Grants/Research-support/WTD004407.htm
Fulbright Senior Specialists Program Canada-U.S. Fulbright ProgramFoundation for Educational Exchange Between Canada and the United StatesThe Fulbright Senior Specialists Program is designed to provide U.S. and Canadian faculty and professionals with opportunities to collaborate on curriculum and faculty development, institutional planning and a variety of other activities.
Fulbright Senior Specialists may engage in any of the following activities at their Canadian host institution:1. Conduct needs assessments, surveys, institutional or programmatic research2. Take part in specialized academic programs and conferences3. Consult with administrators and instructors of postsecondary institutions on faculty development4. Present lectures at graduate and undergraduate levels5. Participate in or lead seminars or workshops at overseas academic institutions6. Develop or assess academic curricula or educational materials 7. Conduct teacher-training programs at the tertiary level
Canadian institutions may request Fulbright Senior Specialists in the following fields:- Agriculture, American studies, Anthropology, Applied linguistics / TEFL, Archaeology, Business administration, Communications and journalism, Economics, Education, Environmental science, Information technology, Law, Library science, Peace and conflict resolution studies, Political science, Public administration, Public/global health, Social work, Sociology, and Urban planning. Activity location: US and CanadaAMOUNT: unspecified; Short-term grants of 2 to 6 weeks are available.DEADLINE: ContinuousWEBSITE: http://www.fulbright.ca/en/seniorspecialists.asp
NSERC Special Research Opportunity (SRO) Program
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The SRO program supports unique, emerging research opportunities that are timely, urgent, high-risk or have a strong potential for breakthrough that will be of substantial benefit to Canada. The program also supports pre-research activities to investigate and develop potential new collaborative projects necessary to respond to these national and international opportunities.
The special opportunity must be unique, unforeseen, and outside the normal evolution and advancement of a longer term research program. It is timely and linked to a window of opportunity that did not exist a year ago, and will not exist in the future. In addition, the research project must be novel, high risk, or have a strong potential for breakthrough. Pre-research activities must have the potential to lead to a significant new collaborative project of benefit to Canada.
Types of projects that may be considered by the SRO program include the following:- A project that can be undertaken only in conjunction with a specific and unusual world event- A workshop to define and plan Canadian participation in a major international research initiative- An interdisciplinary effort to address an emerging problem of importance to Canada- A project that leads to, or exploits, a breakthrough discovery which establishes or maintains Canada';s international leadership position in a niche area- A novel, high-risk project with the potential to change the direction of thought in a discipline or open up new areas of discovery.AMOUNT: variesDEADLINE: Letter of intent may be submitted at any timeWEBSITE: http://www.nserc.ca/professors_e.asp?nav=profnav&lbi=a4
United Cerebral Palsy Research FoundationThe United Cerebral Palsy Research Foundation provides funding for pilot studies on research important to the prevention and treatment of cerebral palsy, including improvement in the quality of life of persons with disabilities due to cerebral palsy and closely related developmental brain disorders. This broad research agenda includes basic, clinical and applied (translational) research. Research grant applications are reviewed for scientific merit and relevancy to the mission by the foundation's scientific advisory council and then for funding by the foundation's board of directors. Grants are awarded on a competitive basis taking into account scientific merit, scientific and clinical significance and relevance to areas designated by the foundation.
For 2007-2008, the following research areas have been designated for foundation targeted attention.
The biology of factors and mechanisms which adversely affect the developing brain resulting in cerebral palsy or disorders often closely associated with cerebral palsy (e.g., visual system impairment)
The development and evaluation of research methodologies for use in studies of the etiologies, pathobiologies, prevention, diagnosis or therapy of cerebral palsy and the impairments or disabilities associated with it
The development of interventions to prevent developmental brain damage associated with cerebral palsy including translational research on therapeutic strategies
The development and evaluation of interventions for improved diagnosis or clinical management of the biological impairments or functional disabilities associated with cerebral palsy
The effects of aging on persons with disabilities due to cerebral palsy; the prevention and treatment of increased disability.
NOTE: The Foundation’s research grant program is aimed primarily at studies being conducted in institutions in the United States. However, when an unusual opportunity is available for the
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initiation of a significant research endeavor not being pursued in the U.S., Foundation research grant support may be provided to institutions outside the U.S.AMOUNT: up to $100,000 ($50,000 per year X 2 years)DEADLINE: continuousWEBSITE: http://www.ucpresearch.org/grants/index.php
MENTORING (archive)Max Bell Foundation's internship grantsMax Bell Foundation internship grants are made to Canadian registered charities (includes universities) who in turn hire interns for short term contracts. Max Bell Foundation has initiated an internship program with the following objectives:
1) To provide selected organizations with the resources required to do "background" or "foundational" work on key public policy issues in health & wellness, education, and environment. Doing such work should help these organizations with their core activities, such as:
understanding public policy issues in their full complexity developing high quality proposals for potential funders informing debate over key public policy issues
2) To provide excellent educational and mentorship experiences for some of Canada's best and brightest young researchers, and focus their attention upon key public policy issues related to health & wellness, education and environment. The best young researchers in Canada should be exposed to some of the leading thinking on public policy issues inside of some of Canada's best public policy research institutes.
Note: Interns must be a Canadian citizenAMOUNT: Stipend. The stipend for holders of bachelors degrees (or equivalent) is $2,400 per month for four to eight months. The stipend for holders of masters degrees (or equivalent) is $2,880 per month. The stipend for holders of doctoral degrees (or equivalent) is $3,200 per month. These amounts are competitive on a national scale, and are intended to draw the best possible candidates.DEADLINE: continuousWEBSITE: http://www.maxbell.org/granting.htm
CIHR Aboriginal Youth OutreachAs part of its Synapse youth outreach program, CIHR is proud to support Actua in delivering health science activities to Aboriginal youth participating in weeklong summer science camps in July and August. The camps engage youth between the ages of 7 and 12 in innovative and fun hands-on activities that show them how science and technology are related to everyday life. CIHR and Actua would like to invite health researchers, postdoctoral fellows, and doctoral students of Aboriginal descent, or working in the area of Aboriginal health, to visit the camp(s) as a mentor.
We are looking for mentors for camps all across Canada including northern Canada (see below for details on locations and dates). The role of the mentor would be to give a short, informal presentation on his/her work and career path in order to inspire and educate youth about careers in the field of health research. Some resources are available to assist with travel costs to remote locations.If you are interested in participating, kindly go to http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/22973.html, http://www.actua.ca/en/involved/mentor.html and http://www.actua.ca/en/programs/camps.html. Complete the short form requesting information on your location, background and availability. Be sure to check the CIHR Synapse Youth Connection program box in the affiliation section.
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Mayday Fund of New York Grant for Pain ResearchThe Mayday Fund is dedicated to alleviating the incidence, degree, and consequence of human physical pain.
The Mayday Fund's current grant-making targets include- projects that result in clinical interventions to reduce the toll of physical pain,- pediatric pain,- pain in non-verbal populations, and- pain in the context of emergency medicine.
Mayday will also continue to be proactive in its commitment to promote networking between veterinary and human medicine, especially in an effort to inform measurements of pain in nonverbal populations. Finally, the trustees of the Mayday Fund wish to be nimble enough to respond as special opportunities present themselves.AMOUNT: unspecifiedDEADLINE: ContinuousWEBSITE: http://www.maydayfund.org/maydayguidelines.html and http://www.maydayfund.org/sft211/mayday2007grants.pdf (for a list of grants made in 2007)
Ontario Mental Health Foundation Grants for Publications, Conferences and Public EventsThe Foundation operates a modest program to support publications, conferences, and other public events which cannot readily be classified as publications or conferences. Applicants may apply for partial support from the Foundation to be combined with other sources. Publications support includes: The publication of monographs to include material of a greater length than would ordinarily be
accepted by a scientific journal. Publications devoted to broader themes than would usually be dealt with in monograph form
(these might be for example, multi-authored, edited volumes on wider issues of relevance to the objectives of the Foundation).
The publication of material of a more general educational character in the field of mental health (subsidy might, for example, be given for publications that deal with the dissemination of new principles or research discoveries, and that help to transfer these into practice). A variety of forms of publication will be considered, e.g., video tapes, lecture series.
The Foundation will consider providing financial assistance for conferences or meetings when the topics proposed are relevant to mental health and the application of research data to prevention, treatment or rehabilitation of the mentally ill. Informal meetings of researchers to exchange data and research methods will be eligible for support if they are advertised in such a way that students and interested workers in Ontario will be able to attend. AMOUNT: Up to $2,500.DEADLINE: Foundation must receive the application no less than four months prior to the date to allow sufficient time for review. WEBSITE: http://www.omhf.on.ca/guidelines/prizes/#conferences
WORKSHOPS (archive)Heart & Stroke Foundation Canada webinar for Population Health and Health Services Grants: Tips for Successful Applications: https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&eventid=117774&sessionid=1&key=1437421057496C2018BFB19B7F348309&sourcepage=register
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