BC Environmental and Occupational Health Research Network

The purpose of this funding opportunity is to provide funding to assist graduate students to spend ten to twelve weeks in a proteomics laboratory in order to gain hands-on experience with proteomics related methods, including ‘wet’ experiments and silico data analysis. Students must be registered in a graduate program at a BC post-secondary institution. Preference will be given to doctoral students, who have a longer program and so will presumably gain more benefit from the training, but Master’s students are also invited to apply. The proposed work must be carried out in a BCPN member laboratory, or at any proteomics laboratory outside BC.

The Postdoctoral Fellowships in Science and Engineering for Foreign Researchers is designed to facilitate and promote regional cooperation in science and technology by linking centers of excellence in advanced research and education in the APEC region.

The National Cancer Institute of Canada offers a limited number of Post MD Research Fellowships (supported by The Terry Fox Foundation and the Canadian Cancer Society) designed to provide training in cancer research for outstanding candidates such as clinician scientists, clinical investigators or research educators. This Research Fellowship is open to candidates who possess a medical degree and would like to pursue specialized research training in oncology (including basic laboratory research, epidemiology, medical statistics, clinical trials, health services, supportive care, palliative care and other forms of cancer research).

The goal of the CYHN / COTF Research Training Award Program (Master’s Scholarship) is to support the development of research in occupational therapy issues pertaining to children, youth and families and home and community care. Our success will be measured by the sustained contributions of award holders developing knowledge relevant to home and community care programs and services in Canada.

The Sloan Research Fellowships were established in 1955 to provide support and recognition to scientists, often in their first appointments to university faculties, who were endeavoring to set up laboratories and establish their independent research projects with little or no outside support. Financial assistance at this crucial point, even in modest amounts, often pays handsome dividends later to society. Selection procedures for the Sloan Research Fellowships are designed to identify those who show the most outstanding promise of making fundamental contributions to new knowledge. Sloan Research Fellows, once chosen, are free to pursue whatever lines of inquiry are of the most compelling interest to them. Their Sloan funds can be applied to a wide variety of uses for which other more restricted funds such as research project grants cannot usually be employed. Former Fellows report that this flexibility often gives the Fellowships a value well beyond their dollar amounts.

The Canadian Foundation for Women’s Health is in a position to attribute two Duchesnay fellowships every year to resident students in obstetrics and gynaecology who desire to complete an elective in a health care center of a developing country. The fellowships cover four to eight weeks and the amount varies from $2,500CAD to $3,800CAD according to the length of the elective. A $700CAD lump-sum will be allocated to the local supervisor of the elective.

Research may be laboratory or clinic based, but the results and conclusions must be clearly relevant to the treatment, diagnosis or prevention of Hodgkin and/or non-Hodgkinlymphoma. Areas of research may include, but are not limited to, etiology, immunology, genetics, therapies, and transplantation.

The purpose of the Lymphoma Research Foundation’s (LRF’s) 3-year Clinical Investigator Career Development Grant is to fund training of clinicians who will participate in developing new therapeutics and diagnostic tools for lymphoma. Clinicians with up to 5 years of experience after their first full time faculty appointment post fellowship are eligible.

The 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. Two distinct funding phases are proposed which are characterized by the maturity of the technology or the involvement of an early-stage investment entity (see Partner Eligibility below for definition) or an industrial partner. These phases are limited in time. In the first phase, the direct costs of research will be entirely supported by NSERC; in the second phase, 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, a maximum of three years’ funding will be available for any given project.

These two-year fellowships help attract the nation’s best scientific talent to careers in lymphoma and allow them to pursue promising leads under the guidance of a Sponsor. Applicants must be affiliated with an institution in the U.S. or Canada. Up to 10 fellowships may be awarded, each at $50,000 in year one, and $55,000 in year two.

This three-year program (now with recently expanded eligibility) funds training of clinicians who will participate in developing new therapeutics and diagnostic tools for lymphoma. Clinicians will be trained to design and administer clinical studies and to take on primary responsibility for trial design, protocol development, IRB submission, and publication. A Career Development Plan and the commitment of a mentor are required as part of the grant application. Up to three CDAs will be awarded, each at a maximum of $75,000 per year for three years. Applicants must be licensed in the U.S. or Canada.

Part of Nasivvik Centre’s mandate involves the support of research and training for postgraduate students and the development of new, innovative areas of research of importance to Inuit health. This year, the Nasivvik Centre is announcing its fourth call for post-doctoral fellowships linked to Inuit health and changing environments. Applications are invited from post-doctoral trainees whose research focuses on an issue related to one or more of the 3 themes identified by Nasivvik Centre.
Objectives
- to provide recognition and funding to academic researchers on Inuit health and changing environments early in their career;
- to support the development of innovative and highly skilled and qualified researchers on issues of concern to Inuit;
- to develop research expertise in any of the theme areas of the Nasivvik Centre as they pertain to Inuit Health.

Applications are invited from students whose graduate research focuses on an issue related to one or more of the 3 themes identified by the Nasivvik Centre. The submission of projects that are being conducted in cooperation with an Inuit community or organization, which include in community research time, and that have a high probability of contributing to the understanding of a specific Inuit environmental health issue and the student’s education in Inuit health is strongly encouraged.

The John J. Bonica Trainee Fellowship was established in 1998 in memory of the founder of IASP to support training in all aspects of pain research.

The Scan | Design by Inger and Jens Bruun Foundation Trainee Fellowship was established in 2006 to support training in all aspects of pain research.