January 8, 2016
News & Events
CIHR Spring Information Session – January 12, 2016, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm, HSC – 4E20 – page 3
CIHR 2016 Project Grant 1st Live Pilot Competition – Registration and important information – page 3
Weston Brain Institute – Rapid Response 2016 – Neurodegenerative Diseases of Aging – Program Information Session:
Monday January 25, 2016 at 1:00p.m. EST – page 4
Health Research Grant Competitions
Programs administered by Health Research Services, unless otherwise indicated. Email: .
Funding Opportunity / LOI Deadline / HRS Internal Deadline / Sponsor Deadline
CIHR – Joint Canada-Israel Health Research Program / Jan 18 / Feb 1 / Feb 15
CIHR – Team Grant – GACD Lung Diseases / Feb 10 / Feb 24
CIHR – Project Scheme – 2016 1st Live Pilot Competition ** E-APPROVAL**
*DUE TO EXPECTED HIGHER VOLUME AND A NEW FORMAT, THERE WILL BE NO MANDATORY PEER REVIEW FOR PROJECT SCHEME UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE* / Jan 18 / Feb 22
(4 pm) / Mar 1
CIHR – Team Grant: Big Data on Dementia / Mar 9 / Mar 23
CIHR – JPIAMR 3rd Joint Call on Transmission Dynamics / Mar 21 / Jun 20 / Jul 4
Weston Brain Institute – Transformational Research 2016 / Jan 14
The Lung Association – Canadian Respiratory Health Professionals Research Grants / Jan 15 / Jan 29 / Feb 12
CQDM'sCanada/Europe Joint Funding Initiative / N/A / Jan 15
MILO
Ontario Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services – Research into Police Responses to Sexual Violence and Harassment Against Aboriginal Women and Girls / ASAP / Jan 19
Parkinson Society Canada – 2016-2018 National Research Program / Jan 18 / Feb 1
Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute – Knowledge to Action Grants / Feb 1 / Apr 1 / Apr 15
Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute – Prevention Research Grants / Feb 1 / Jun 11 / Jun 25
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada – Operating Grants / Jan 27 / Feb 10
McMaster University – Collaborative Projects Between the Faculty of Health Sciences and the Faculty of Engineering / N/A / Feb 15
Kidney Foundation of Canada – KRESCENT New Investigator Award / Feb 1 / Feb 15
Canadian Blood Services – Summer Research Scholarship Program 2016 / Feb 2 / Feb 16
Prostate Cancer Canada – Translation Acceleration Grants / Jan 27 / Feb 3 / Feb 17
Prostate Cancer Canada - Special Project in Non-Metastatic Castrate Resistant Prostate Cancer / Feb 3 / Feb 3 / Feb 17
NARSAD Young Investigator Grant / Feb 10 / Feb 24
Brain Canada-Huntington Society of Canada -Multi-Investigator Research Initiative / Feb 12 / Feb 26
McMaster University – Faculty of Health Sciences – Education Innovation Fund / N/A / Feb 29
Cancer Research UK – Grand Challenges Awards / Feb 12 / Jul 15 / Jul 31
NSERC Strategic Partnership Grants 2016 / Feb 14
MILO / Mar 7
MILO / Apr 1
Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute – Innovation Grants / Feb 15 / Mar 18 / Apr 1
Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute – Innovation to Impact Grants / Feb 15 / Mar 18 / Apr 1
Prostate Cancer Canada – Movember Discovery Grants / Feb 17 / Mar 18 / Apr 1
Weston Brain Institute – Rapid Response 2016 – Neurodegenerative Diseases of Aging / Feb 23
2:00 pm
Studentship and Fellowship Competitions
Programs administered by the School of Graduate Studies. Email: .
Funding Opportunity / LOI Deadline / SGS Internal Deadline / Sponsor Deadline
American Urological Association – 2016 Summer Medical Student Fellowship
http://www.auanet.org/research/summer-medical-student-fellowships.cfm / Jan 14 / Jan 28
American Urological Association – 2016 Residency Research Award
http://www.auanet.org/research/residency-research-awards.cfm / Jan 24 / Jan 28
Parkinson Society Canada – 2016-2018 Fellowship and Studentship Awards
http://www.parkinson.ca/site/c.kgLNIWODKpF/b.9221877/k.7125/Funding_Opportunities.htm / Jan 18 / Feb 1
Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada – endMS Scholar Program for Researchers IN Training (SPRINT)
https://mssociety.ca/information-for-researchers/funding-opportunities/endms-research-and-training-network-awards-and-programs/endms-sprint?_ga=1.236173064.829586706.1452020066 / Jan 25 / Feb 8
Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada – endMS Summer School
https://mssociety.ca/information-for-researchers/funding-opportunities/endms-research-and-training-network-awards-and-programs/education-and-networking-programs/endms-summer-school?_ga=1.159576116.829586706.1452020066 / Jan 29 / Feb 12
The Lung Association – Canadian Respiratory Health Professionals – Research Fellowships
https://www.lung.ca/lung-research/apply-funding / Jan 15 / Jan 29 / Feb 12
Kidney Foundation of Canada – KRESCENT Post-Doctoral Fellowship
http://www.krescent.ca/page.aspx?pid=849 / Feb 1 / Feb 15
Prostate Cancer Canada - Personnel Awards in Prostate Cancer Research
http://www.prostatecancer.ca/Research/Information-for-Scientists/Personnel-Awards-in-Prostate-Cancer-Research#.Vo_NFPkrJaQ / Feb 10 / Feb 24 / Mar 9
Kidney Foundation of Canada - Allied Health Scholarships
http://www.kidney.ca/funding/allied-health-scholarships / Mar 1 / Mar 15
Kidney Foundation of Canada - Allied Health Doctoral Fellowships
http://www.kidney.ca/funding/allied-health-scholarships?erid=826749&trid=fdfae312-77d5-4bb4-996a-81be2d300174 / Mar 1 / Mar 15
Autism Speaks – Meixner Postdoctoral Fellowship in Translational Research
https://www.autismspeaks.org/site-wide/meixner-postdoctoral-fellowships-translational-research / Jan 12 / Mar 2 / Mar 16
Michael G. DeGroote Fellowship Award in Basic Biomedical Science and
Michael G. DeGroote Fellowship Award in Clinical Research
**Applicants apply directly to: http://fhs.mcmaster.ca/mgdfa/ / N/A / Apr 1
CIHR Spring Information Session – January 12, 2016
Health Research Services in the Faculty of Health Sciences is pleased to announce a CIHR Info Session for all potential applicants to the NEW Project Scheme Pilot 1 (March 1/16) competition.
The deadline for Registration for the Project Scheme competition is 8:00 pm on January 18, 2016.
Find out the latest information regarding recent changes to the CIHR grant format and review process, as well as electronic application and HRS admin timelines. Hear directly from McMaster’s CIHR University Delegate, Lori Burrows, how changes will affect your preparation for both Project Scheme Registration and Application stages, as well as potential insight in to how to manage the new format.
DATE: January 12, 2016
TIME: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
PLACE: HSC – 4E20
RSVP your interest to at your earliest convenience.
Registration to 2016 CIHR Project Grant 1st Live Pilot Competition
Registration to CIHR’s first Project Grant live pilot competition will be open from November 16, 2015 to January 18, 2016. Registration is mandatory if you wish to submit to the March 1 competition. Please note: The following elements cannot change between registration and application:
· Summary of research proposal (minor modifications between submissions is allowed; this will be used to match reviewers)
· List of all participants
Complete registration instructions can be found online. Additional materials to support the application and peer-review process will be available on the CIHR website in the coming weeks.
***INTERNAL e-approval deadline is February 22, 2016 by 4:00 pm***
The complete Project Grant timeline is available here: http://fhs.mcmaster.ca/healthresearch/documents/TimelineforCIHRProjectSchemePilot1Mar20163.pdf
For further information or questions, please contact:
Lisa Hodge
Senior Advisor, CIHR Programs
Ext. 26367
Weston Brain Institute – Rapid Response 2016 – Neurodegenerative Diseases of Aging – Program Information Session
The Weston Brain Institute will be holding a Program Information Session for this funding opportunity on Monday January 25, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. EST. This session is intended to provide you with comprehensive information on the application process and to provide an opportunity for open questions. To sign-up for the information session and receive the dial in details, as well as submit any questions you may have in advance, please click the following link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1793756835407375361.
CIHR – Joint Canada-Israel Health Research Program
The organizations funding this Program support the search for breakthroughs in health sciences that have the potential to bring about enduring changes across the globe, including in developing regions. The Initiative will support world-class research teams co-led by Canadian and Israeli investigators. The teams will be expected to integrate researchers from low and middle income countries to further their scientific capacity. In their capacity as collaborators or trainees, researchers from eligible countries will contribute to and benefit from their involvement in the Initiative. https://www.researchnet-recherchenet.ca/rnr16/vwOpprtntyDtls.do?prog=2348&view=currentOpps&type=EXACT&resultCount=25&sort=program&all=1&masterList=true
LOI deadline: January 18, 2016 HRS internal deadline: February 1, 2016 Full submission deadline: February 15, 2016
CIHR – Team Grant – GACD Lung Diseases
This funding opportunity on Implementation Research on the Primary Prevention of Chronic Lung Diseases in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs) is the third joint research program of the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD). The GACD was established in 2009 to support research priorities for a coordinated research effort that will address chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs), a growing health crisis now reaching epidemic proportions globally. https://www.researchnet-recherchenet.ca/rnr16/vwOpprtntyDtls.do?prog=2351&view=currentOpps&type=EXACT&resultCount=25&sort=program&all=1&masterList=true HRS internal deadline: February 10, 2016 Full submission deadline: February 24, 2016
CIHR – Project Scheme – 2016 1st Live Pilot Competition
The Project Scheme is designed to capture ideas with the greatest potential to advance health-related knowledge, health research, health care, health systems, and/or health outcomes. It supports projects with a specific purpose and a defined endpoint. The best ideas may stem from new, incremental, innovative, and/or high-risk lines of inquiry or knowledge translation approaches.
https://www.researchnet-recherchenet.ca/rnr16/vwOpprtntyDtls.do?prog=2237&view=currentOpps&type=EXACT&resultCount=25&sort=program&all=1&masterList=true
LOI deadline: January 18, 2016 HRS internal deadline: February 22, 2016 by 4:00 pm Full submission deadline: March 1, 2016
CIHR – Team Grant: Big Data on Dementia
The CIHR Dementia Research Strategy (the Strategy) is a CIHR signature initiative which aims to support research on the latest preventive, diagnostic and treatment approaches to Alzheimer's disease and related dementia. Under this Strategy, CIHR is implementing key national and international research initiatives which contribute to the National Dementia Research and Prevention Planintroduced by the Government of Canada in September 2014 in the context of the Global Action Against Dementia initiative spearheaded by the UK. The Strategy was launched in 2009 and encompasses numerous activities and funding initiatives under both the national and international components. The Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA) announced in 2014, is the national component of the Strategy and now represents Canada’s centre of excellence in neurodegeneration research comprising 20 teams more than 350 researchers, eight platforms spanning all neurodegenerative diseases that have an impact on cognition.
https://www.researchnet-recherchenet.ca/rnr16/vwOpprtntyDtls.do?prog=2363&view=currentOpps&type=EXACT&resultCount=25&sort=program&all=1&masterList=true
HRS internal deadline: March 9, 2016 Full submission deadline: March 23, 2016
CIHR – JPIAMR 3rd Joint Call on Transmission Dynamics
The primary aim of the third joint call of Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance (JPIAMR) is to combine the resources, infrastructures, and research strengths of multiple countries in order to address transmission of antibiotic resistance following a ‘One Health Approach’.
An organism develops resistance to a drug either by a gene mutation or by the acquisition of genetic components from another strain (i.e. transmission of resistance). Resistant organisms can multiply in the presence of a drug (i.e. selection of resistance traits) but without transmission, resistance would remain an isolated problem. To understand the complex biological and environmental interactions that shape the spread of antibiotic resistance, we must identify and characterize the determinants that contribute to the spread of resistance in and between different reservoirs; including humans (sick and healthy people), animals (livestock, companion and wild animals) and the environment (indoor and outdoor). Investigating the complex biology and epidemiology of selection and transmission of resistance is crucial in order to design preventive measures to address this public threat. The success and abundance of antibiotic resistant bacterial strains with particular public health importance should be determined through the development of risk assessment approaches that are based on the genomic repertoire of bacterial pathogens and the ecological constraints that determine their fitness in clinical, community, modelers, medical practitioners (human and veterinary), etc., where appropriate. Consortia are encouraged to include participants from academia, medical and public health practitioners (both human and veterinary), policy makers, and industry, where appropriate (please note the national/regional regulations).
http://www.jpiamr.eu/activities/joint-calls/3rd-joint-call-transmission-dynamics/
Provisional timeline:
Submission deadline: Pre-proposal: March 21st 2016
HRS Internal deadline: June 20, 2016
Submission deadline: Full proposal: July 4th 2016
Cancer Research Society – Operating Grants
The Operating Grants competition is the principal means by which the Cancer Research Society fulfills its mission to support fundamental, early translational and Environment-Cancer research on all types of cancer in order to contribute to the advancement of science aimed at preventing, detecting and treating this disease. The Operating Grants Competition takes place every year and is open to researchers across Canada. http://www.crs-src.ca/for-researchers-operating-grant?srctid=1&erid=1081603&trid=6fa6f416-530e-483a-bcb5-c7764346ce4d
LOI deadline: December 7, 2015 HRS internal deadline: February 3, 2016 Full submission deadline: February 17, 2016
Weston Brain Institute – Transformational Research 2016
The prevalence of neurodegenerative diseases of aging is high and growing rapidly. The Weston Brain Institute Transformational Research 2016 Programfunds high-potential translational research projects with excellent preliminary data. This Program aims to support innovative ideas that can advance the development of scientific breakthroughs to accelerate the creation of safe, effective treatments for these diseases. http://westonbraininstitute.ca/transformational-research-2016/
LOI deadline: January 14, 2016, 2:00 pm EST
The Lung Association-Canadian Respiratory Health Professionals Research Grants
Description:
Offers research grants of up to $20,000 to respiratory health professionals who are members of the CRHP.
Eligibility:
1. A Canadian citizen, permanent Canadian resident or landed immigrant
2. A respiratory health professional and member of the CRHP (MDs are not eligible for CRHP grant support as a PI
3. Affiliated with a health care organization, an educational institution that can manage funds in the approved way
To register go to: http://cts.fluidsurveys.com/surveys/cts/crhp-research-competition-registration/
LOI deadline: January 15, 2016 HRS internal deadline: January 29, 2016 Full submission deadline: February 12, 2016
CQDM'sCanada/Europe Joint Funding Initiative
CQDM and AiF Project GmbH, the projectmanagement agency of BMWi, the German Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, are pleased to announce the launch of a new international funding initiative entitled the Canada/Germany joint program. This collaboration agreement aims at funding collaborative research between the two countries. The main goal of the Canada/Germany joint program is to strengthen research in Canada and Germany by aligning scientific resources and expertise. This gives the opportunity to R&D projects jointly conducted by Canadian and German private and public research entities to develop new expertise and to expand into new markets.
For more information, please visit: http://tinyurl.com/nb5r53v.