BC Environmental and Occupational Health Research Network

The primary objective of this funding opportunity is to support expert teams composed of researchers and knowledge users to conduct research on violence, gender, and health. CIHR’s definition of "knowledge user" includes but is not limited to: practitioners, policy-makers, educators, decision-makers, health care administrators, community leaders, or individuals in a health charity, patient group, private sector organization or a media outlet.

The 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;
• 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.

CIHR-IHDCYH’s mandate is to promote and support research that improves the health and development of mothers, infants, children, youth and families in Canada and throughout the world. Through our support, researchers address a wide range of health concerns, including those associated with reproduction, early development, childhood and adolescence.

Priority Announcements offer additional sources of funding for highly rated applications that are relevant to specific CIHR research priority areas or mandates. Applications are submitted through the Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant: Planning Grants (Fall 2010 Competition) funding opportunity.

CIHR’s mandate is to excel, according to internationally accepted standards of scientific excellence, in the creation of new knowledge and its translation into improved health, more effective health services and products, and a strengthened health care system. CIHR recognizes that an important part of this process is the planning required to build active and meaningful collaborations and/or effectively scan and understand the health research landscape before embarking on a grant application.

The vision of the Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction (INMHA) is that innovative research will provide new knowledge of the biological and socio-cultural processes underlying neurological, mental and addictive disorders. As such, the INMHA’s mission is to foster excellence in innovative, ethically responsible research in Canada that aims to increase our knowledge of the functioning and disorders of the brain and the mind, the spinal cord, the sensory and motor systems, as well as mental health, mental illness and all forms of addiction. The INMHA intends to support initiatives that mobilize and link researchers or researchers/clinicians/users of health research in innovative collaborative programs across these research domains. The INMHA seeks to translate research knowledge into a better quality of life for all Canadians through improved outcomes, health promotion and health care services.

Funds are available for applications in all areas of research that address any important health problem or issue through the Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant: Knowledge Translation Supplement (Fall 2010 Competition) funding opportunity.

An important part of CIHR’s mandate is to translate knowledge into improved health, more effective health services and products, and a strengthened health care system. Knowledge translation (KT) is a dynamic and iterative process that includes the synthesis, dissemination, exchange and ethically-sound application of knowledge to improve the health of Canadians, provide more effective health services and products and strengthen the healthcare system. This process takes place within a complex system of interactions between researchers and knowledge-users which may vary in intensity, complexity and level of engagement depending on the nature of the research and on the needs of the particular knowledge-user.

The IG’s mandate is to support research on the human and model genomes and on all aspects of genetics, basic biochemistry and cell biology related to health and disease, including the translation of knowledge into health policy and practice, and the societal implications of genetic discoveries.

This funding opportunity is announced under the CIHR Institute of Infection and Immunity’s HIV/AIDS Research Initiative and is focused on the Initiative’s priority research theme of Issues of co-infection and co-morbidity. It is expected that this targeted investment will enable researchers to generate preliminary data, initiate new partnerships, and/or explore novel (high risk) research ideas towards enhancing the success of subsequent applications to the CIHR open and strategic competitions.

The CIHR HIV/AIDS Community-Based Research (CBR) Program assists community-based organizations, non-governmental organizations and institutions in developing the knowledge necessary to carry out their HIV/AIDS work in the most effective manner, and in creating expertise within these communities to conduct their own research. The aim of this Operating Grant is to contribute to the creation, dissemination and use of health-related knowledge, and to help develop and maintain research capacity, by supporting original, high quality projects proposed and conducted in partnership between the community and academia.

The specific objective of this funding opportunity is:
• To support cancer research-related provincial, national, or international meetings.
The CIHR Institute of Cancer Research will provide funding for applications that are determined to be relevant to the mandate of the Institute.

Research and knowledge translation activities may fall within CIHR’s four research themes: Bio-medical, Clinical, Health Services, and Social, Cultural, Environmental and Population Health. Activities must be aimed at advancing knowledge in the field of aging to improve the well-being and health of older Canadians (generally above the age of 65).

The Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health (ICRH) mandate is to support research into the causes, mechanisms, prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment, support systems, and palliation for a wide range of conditions associated with the heart, lung, brain (stroke), blood vessels, blood, critical and intensive care, and sleep.

The specific objective of this funding opportunity is to support research to enhance active living, mobility and movement, and oral health; and addresses causes, prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment, support systems, and palliation for a wide range of conditions related to bones, joints, muscles, connective tissue, skin and teeth.

Applications are invited for social science, health policy, population health, health promotion and health services research aimed at identifying effective interventions that address behaviours or exposures that affect cancer risk and are likely to have an evaluable cancer prevention impact. Interventions to prevent cancer are defined as research to modify determinants of, and/or changes to, behaviours or exposures that affect cancer risk.

Pilot 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.

The 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.

The Caring for Carcinoid Foundation-AACR Grants for Carcinoid Tumor and Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor Research represent a joint effort to promote and support innovative cancer research. These grants are available to independent junior and senior investigators to develop and study new ideas and approaches that have direct application and relevance to carcinoid tumors or pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors. Proposed research may be in any discipline of basic, translational, clinical, or epidemiological cancer research.

Priority Announcements on Operating Grant: Knowledge to Action competitions offer additional sources of funding for highly rated applications that are relevant to specific CIHR research priority areas or mandates. Applications are submitted through the "201010KAL" competition of the Operating Grant: Knowledge to Action (2010-2011) funding opportunity.