BC Environmental and Occupational Health Research Network

The objective of the Idea to Innovation (I2I) Grants is to accelerate the pre-competitive development of promising technology originating from the university and college sector and promote its transfer to a new or established Canadian company. The I2I Grants provide funding to college and university faculty members to support research and development projects with recognized technology transfer potential. This is achieved through defined phases by providing crucial assistance in the early stages of technology validation and market connection.

Chairs in Design Engineering (CDEs) were established to improve the level and quality of design engineering activity within Canadian universities. NSERC encourages a multidisciplinary view of design engineering and encourages applications from all engineering disciplines.

The objective of the MRS program is to facilitate the effective access by Canadian academic researchers to major and unique national or international (based in Canada) experimental or thematic research resources by financially assisting these resources to remain in a state of readiness for researchers to use. MRS grants are not intended to support resources that are standard in a discipline or commonly available in Canadian universities. The MRS program also aims to facilitate access by Canadian academic researchers, who come together as national consortia, to major international resources located outside Canada, the equivalent of which is not available in Canada. This support excludes any direct financial support towards the operating and maintenance costs of such resources.

The Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) Program supports the training of teams of highly qualified students and postdoctoral fellows from Canada and abroad through the development of innovative training programs that:
• encourage collaborative and integrative approaches, and address significant scientific challenges associated with Canada’s research priorities; and
• facilitate the transition of new researchers from trainees to productive employees in the Canadian workforce.
These innovative programs must include the acquisition and development of important professional skills among students and postdoctoral fellows that complement their qualifications and technical skills.

The Collaborative Health Research Projects (CHRP) Program supports focussed interdisciplinary collaborative research projects involving any field of the natural sciences or engineering and any field of the health sciences. Proposed research projects should be innovative and lead to health benefits for Canadians, more effective health services, and/or economic development in health-related areas. All applicant teams are required to demonstrate they will engage and collaborate with a knowledge/technology user organization that could benefit from the research results. Typically, support will be for up to three years for defined projects with clear milestones and decision points.

The goal of Strategic Project Grants (SPG) is to increase research and training in targeted areas that could strongly enhance Canada’s economy, society and/or environment within the next 10 years. Applicants are encouraged to incorporate international collaborations into their proposals.

The Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) supports innovative basic research into fundamental biological problems with emphasis placed on novel and interdisciplinary approaches that involve scientific exchanges across national and disciplinary boundaries. In the past decade biological research has become increasingly quantitative rather than descriptive. The participation of scientists from disciplines outside the traditional life sciences such as biophysics, chemistry, computational biology, computer science, engineering, mathematics, nanoscience or physics has contributed to this change and will continue to do so. Such collaborations have opened up new approaches for understanding the complex structures and regulatory networks that characterize living organisms, their evolution and interactions.
To submit you must register and obtain a reference number by March 21, 2012.

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 Catalyst Grant is to provide seed money, on a short-term basis, to support health research activities which represent a first step towards the pursuit of more comprehensive funding opportunities (e.g., operating grants).

The CIHR Program Grant in Transplantation Research has been developed in response to the workshop recommendations and will provide an opportunity for the transplantation community to come together in a national Program that will transform the clinical outcomes for Canadian transplant patients. The Program will integrate independently-fundable research projects and may include core technologies. The Program will encompass a number of sub-projects addressing the many facets of solid organ and HSCT transplantation, including research focused on, but not limited to, the priority areas described below. The Program will unite researchers from at least three of the four health research themes: biomedical; clinical; health systems and services; and population and public health and demonstrate a clear advantage over independent, single grants and a strong value-added component over status quo. The sub-projects that make up the Program must represent scientific input from all Principal Applicants. These sub-projects, which may differ substantially in size, complexity and cost, must be able to stand alone as independently-fundable research projects, but at the same time, must contribute substantially to the primary research goals of the program as a whole. Each sub-project can be either single focus or multidisciplinary in composition and scope.

This program, established in 1998, sponsors research symposia on topics of interest to basic scientists and clinical researchers. Each symposium may be followed by a state-of-the-art volume covering the topic of the meeting. Applicants must be members of IASP.

The IASP Collaborative Research Grants support international, interdisciplinary collaborations in pain research. The principal investigator in charge of the overall project must be a member of IASP of at least one year’s standing.

The IASP Developing Countries Collaborative Research Grants supports international and interdisciplinary collaborations in pain research, specifically between laboratories in a developing country (see list of eligible countries) and in a developed country.

Under the framework of the ICS Program, IPPH will consider requests that:
• fall within the general objectives of this funding program;
• address one or more of the IPPH strategic priorities (listed below);
• increase the capacity of the Canadian health research community to lead and collaborate on cutting-edge population and public health research and knowledge translation, both nationally and internationally;
• build on/align with existing IPPH initiatives (e.g. Applied Public Health Chairs, Strategic Training Initiative in Health Research); and,
• support and accelerate the translation of research on population health interventions and implementation systems into practice, programs, and policies within the health and other sectors.

Applications are sought for knowledge syntheses grants that will underpin the future development of interventions related to suicide prevention. These syntheses should summarize the empirical evidence related to the effectiveness of suicide prevention interventions.
The successful teams will have six months to complete their synthesis at which time the team will present the results of their synthesis to Health Policy makers, research funders, and other stakeholders and will assist the group in the interpretation and contextualization of the findings. Expedited Knowledge Synthesis uses all of the characteristics of a standard CIHR funding opportunity, but several innovations have been introduced to allow a quick response to the knowledge needs of decision makers. As this is a novel program we encourage applicants to review all sections of this funding opportunity carefully.

Through the Betty Havens Prize for Knowledge Translation in Aging, the CIHR-Institute of Aging will recognize individual(s), team(s) or organization(s) that have advanced the translation of research in aging at a local or regional level. The CIHR Knowledge Translation Prize 2012 honours and supports the exemplary knowledge translation efforts and activities of an exceptional individual, team or organization that has made an outstanding contribution to increasing the application of research findings, improving the health of individuals, improving health services and products, or strengthening the health-care system at a national or international level.

Through the Institute Community Support (ICS) Program, the CIHR Institutes are launching the ICS Travel Awards competition for students, postdoctoral fellows, new investigators and knowledge users to present their own research at national and international meetings and/or conferences. This ICS Travel Awards competition will not support travel for research skills development or update, exchange programs or lectureships.

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are:
• Increase and promote interest in health research and careers in health research among today’s youth across Canada.
• Position CIHR in the minds of Canadians as a national leader in supporting youth health research literacy.
• Establish and maintain collaborative relationships with national science youth outreach stakeholders and service providers in Canada.
• Strengthen CIHR’s value and impact as the Government of Canada’s agency for health research.

This Funding Opportunity invites research teams to submit proposals for the conduct of a combined Phase I/II interventional clinical trial for CCSVI in multiple sclerosis patients. Working with the Scientific Expert Working Group, CIHR has identified select elements (some being very specific) that all applications will be required to incorporate into their proposed trial design. Those specific requirements for inclusion (or exclusion) are outlined as part of the application requirements below.

Partnership Grants provide support for new and existing formal partnerships over four to seven years to advance research and/or knowledge mobilization in the social sciences and humanities through mutual co-operation and sharing of intellectual leadership, as well as through resources as evidenced by cash and/or in-kind contributions.

JDRF is soliciting EOIs to encourage collaborations among bioengineers, chemists, immunologists, transplant researchers, and pancreatic beta cell biologists to incorporate engineering concepts and designs into current efforts toward improving islet encapsulation as a key component of cell replacement therapy for T1D. Ultimately, the funded projects should have established milestones and make progress toward making encapsulated human islets/porcine islets/hESC-derived pancreatic progenitors a translatable technology applicable in the clinical setting.