BC Environmental and Occupational Health Research Network

Innovation grants have been created to support innovative, creative problem solving in cancer research. As competition for grant funding increases, peer review panels become more conservative and risk averse, emphasizing feasibility more than innovation. The goal of this new CCSRI grant program is to support unconventional concepts, approaches or methodologies to address problems in cancer research. Innovation projects will include elements of creativity, curiosity, investigation, exploration and opportunity. Successful projects may be based on “high risk” ideas, but will have the potential for “high reward” (i.e. to significantly impact our understanding of cancer and generate new approaches to combat the disease by introducing novel ideas into use or practice).

The Impact Grant program is intended to contribute to the scientific idea ‘pipeline’ by supporting significant progression in cancer research programs, from individual investigators or multidisciplinary teams, that are in the continuum from basic high impact discovery to translational work of direct relevance to the clinic. Impact grants will accelerate and focus the knowledge gained from scientific findings, in the short or long term, into outcomes that will significantly advance understanding of cancer and improve scientific knowledge, which will result in optimized patient care, improved cancer treatment or reduced cancer burden. Impact grants are to provide funding to support ideas that promote major advancement in research programs, whether at the fundamental discovery stage (such as studies involving model organisms that demonstrate potential for impact) through to applied research (such as patient or population based proposals).
Info session (webinar): December 15, 2011 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. EST

The purpose of this initiative is to fund research in prevention and risk reduction priority areas as identified by the Canadian Cancer Society:
• tobacco control
• occupational and environmental carcinogens (O&E)
• UV radiation exposure
• healthy eating and physical activity
• basic research including better understanding of cancer etiology and gene-based studies related to risk reduction and prevention
The Society hopes to stimulate group interaction based on the premise that high impact work requires complementary skills and can be best carried out through a group effort. A central focus of this funding program is the requirement that investigators work collaboratively with the Canadian Cancer Society and clearly describe how the proposed research will address key cancer prevention and/or risk reduction priorities to influence Canadian Cancer Society programs, activities, and/or public policy work.

Innovation grants have been created to support innovative, creative problem solving in cancer research. As competition for grant funding increases, peer review panels become more conservative and risk averse, emphasizing feasibility more than innovation. The goal of this new CCSRI grant program is to support unconventional concepts, approaches or methodologies to address problems in cancer research. Innovation projects will include elements of creativity, curiosity, investigation, exploration and opportunity. Successful projects may be based on “high risk” ideas, but will have the potential for “high reward” (i.e. to significantly impact our understanding of cancer and generate new approaches to combat the disease by introducing novel ideas into use or practice).

The 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. Applicants should be new investigators who have no more than two (2) years experience as an independent investigator at the time of application and who have not previously received a research grant as a Principal Investigator from a national peer-review agency. An application for an Equipment Grant for New Investigators must be made as an part of a New Investigator research grant application.

The purpose of this program is to assist new investigators who are beginning a career in cancer research to obtain their first research grant. Applicants should be new investigators who have no more than two (2) years experience as an independent investigator at the time of application and who have not previously received a research grant as a Principal Investigator from a national peer-review agency. Applicants who are in receipt of research funding such as an Idea or Feasibility grant are eligible to apply.

Grants 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.

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.

The Canadian Cancer Society Prevention Initiative – Research Scientist Awards in Prevention Research are career development awards and are intended for candidates who have shown a commitment to cancer prevention interventions research. Interventions to prevent cancer are defined as research to modify determinants of, and/or changes to, behaviours or exposures that affect cancer risk.

The purpose of the Social Media Interventions for Tobacco Prevention and Cessation grants competition is to develop innovative tobacco cessation programs and programs that prevent people from taking up smoking by supporting studies of tobacco interventions and processes that utilize social media.
Applications are invited from researchers working across numerous disciplines to undertake work that will modify tobacco use behaviours, thus affecting cancer risk related to a broad array of cancers. Successful applicants are expected to work in partnership with the Canadian Cancer Society in order to accelerate the translation of the research results into the Society’s tobacco cessation and prevention programs. Social media is defined as conversations and interaction between people online through highly accessible and scalable web-based technologies.

The Canadian Cancer Society may provide contributions to formal scientific meetings where researchers will have the opportunity to exchange and disseminate information that will enhance cancer research activities in Canada. Applications must provide the details of the conference/symposium highlighting how the Canadian Cancer Society contribution will further the cause of Canadian cancer research. It is expected that the Canadian Cancer Society contribution would be used preferentially to defray expenses of Canadian participants at the conference or symposium. Support of Canadian trainees is especially encouraged.

The intent of the Cancer Research Workshop Program is to support the meeting of up to 30 persons individually invited to address specific questions or problems important to cancer research in Canada. Workshops may be designed to build on local strengths or interests with attendance being primarily Canadian but assisted by a few specially invited keynote speakers or in which individuals from diverse backgrounds who would not normally interact or collaborate are brought together to provide a multi-disciplinary approach to solve a cancer research problem. The majority of participants should be active in the field of cancer control.

The 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. Applicants should be new investigators who have no more than two (2) years experience as an independent investigator at the time of application and who have not previously received a research grant as a Principal Investigator from a national peer-review agency. An application for an Equipment Grant for New Investigators must be made as an part of a New Investigator research grant application.

The purpose of this program is to assist new investigators who are beginning a career in cancer research to obtain their first research grant. Applicants should be new investigators who have no more than two (2) years experience as an independent investigator at the time of application and who have not previously received a research grant as a Principal Investigator from a national peer-review agency. Applicants who are in receipt of research funding such as an Idea or Feasibility grant are eligible to apply.

Grants 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.