BC Environmental and Occupational Health Research Network

The Lung Association offers two types of research trainee awards to the medical and scientific community in the field of respiratory health: post-doctoral fellowships and PhD graduate studentships.

The Fellows will be required to devote the major part of their time to study in one of the Faculties of Harvard University: Arts and Sciences (including Engineering), Business Administration, Design, Divinity Studies, Education, Law, Public Administration (John F. Kennedy School of Government), Medicine, Dental Medicine and Public Health. The University will try to arrange courses suitable to the requirements of the Fellows. Open to Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada who have graduated no earlier than the spring of 2007 or will graduate before September 2009 from an institution in Canada, which is a member or affiliated to a member of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC).

The Canadian Hemophilia Society (CHS) and the Association of Hemophilia Clinic Directors of Canada (AHCDC), in collaboration with Novo Nordisk Canada Inc. have established a Fellowship in Congenital & Acquired Bleeding Disorders. This program will provide fellows in hematology or other relevant fields the opportunity to obtain additional clinical or research skills necessary to improve the care and lives of patients with hemophilia and other inherited bleeding disorders.

The MRC Senior Clinical Fellowship is a prestigious award for clinical researchers of exceptional ability. Applicants are expected to be proven independent researchers, to be well-qualified for academic research and to demonstrate promise as future research leaders. Support is provided for five years. Clinical applicants should hold a PhD/DPhil or MD and will have at least three years’ relevant postdoctoral research experience. Applications from current MRC Clinician Scientist Fellows are particularly welcome.The Senior Clinical Fellowship is open to hospital doctors, dentists, general practitioners, nurses, midwives and members of the allied health professions. There are no residence eligibility restrictions. MRC Fellowships are not available to individuals who hold a tenured academic position at the time of application. If you hold a tenured position you may apply for funding under one of the MRC’s grant schemes. There are no residence eligibility restrictions for this fellowship.

The MRC Clinician Scientist Fellowship is a post-doctoral clinical fellowship providing up to four years’ support .There is also a patient-oriented version of the scheme that provides up to five years’ support, which is intended for research which requires up to 40 per cent of the Fellow’s time to be spent in clinical work. At least 50 per cent of this clinical work should be of direct relevance to the research project.

The MRC and ESRC joint research studentships and postdoctoral fellowship scheme has been developed to fund interdisciplinary research students and postdoctoral fellows whose research is of interest to both councils and which requires the combined approaches of both the medical and social sciences. Proposals to this scheme must address the interests of both the MRC and the ESRC and must be genuinely interdisciplinary in approach. Applicants should ensure their proposal engages with MRC’s strategic priorities and ESRC’s Research Challenges. The purpose of an MRC/ESRC postdoctoral fellowship is to provide an opportunity to undertake limited new research (not exceeding 25% time and cost of the fellowship) and/or additional research linked to the PhD, produce publications, disseminate research findings and gain additional research related skills and training.

The IARC is offering an Expertise Transfer Fellowship to enable an established investigator to spend normally from six to twelve months in an appropriate host institute in a low- / medium-resource country* in order to transfer knowledge and expertise in a research area relevant for the host country and related to the Agency’s programmes: epidemiology, biostatistics, environmental chemical carcinogenesis, cancer etiology and prevention, infection and cancer, molecular cell biology, molecular genetics, molecular pathology and mechanisms of carcinogenesis. Applications should include a proposed collaborative research project, specifying the link to IARC’s on-going activities and a letter of support from the host lab giving details of feasibility and anticipated benefit to the receiving institute. A letter of endorsement from a research Group at IARC must also be provided. Priority will be given to projects directly linked to IARC’s on-going research programme, involving at least one contact at IARC.

The IARC is offering a Visiting Scientist Award for a qualified and experienced investigator with recent publications in international peer-reviewed scientific journals who wishes to spend from six to twelve months at the IARC working on a collaborative project in a research area related to the Agency’s programmes: epidemiology, biostatistics, environmental chemical carcinogenesis, cancer etiology and prevention, infection and cancer, molecular cell biology, molecular genetics, molecular pathology and mechanisms of carcinogenesis.

This Funding Opportunity is intended to increase research capacity at the interface of Mobility in Aging and Dementia with the goal to address research and knowledge translation gaps that have been identified in relation to Mobility in Aging, for example: understanding and defining mobility in aging: trajectory of mobility status in health and disease, and from function to impairment; maintaining and restoring mobility in aging: impact of behaviour, prevention, intervention and health system models; measures, tools, and technologies in research, assessment and mobility aids.

AACR Postdoctoral Fellowships are open to Postdoctoral Fellows and Clinical Research Fellows who are working at an academic facility, teaching hospital, or research institution and who will be in the first, second, or third year of their postdoctoral training at the start of the fellowship term. Fellowships support the salary and benefits of the Fellow, with partial funds (up to 25% of the total grant) permitted to be designated to direct research expenses.

Canadian Blood Services offers a Graduate Fellowship Program to attract and support young investigators to initiate or continue training in the field of blood transfusion science. This program is offered to graduate students who are undertaking full-time research training leading to a Ph.D. degree. The fellowship is awarded directly to the student, with a value of $21,000 per annum. A yearly research and travel allowance of $1,000 per annum is provided with each fellowship. Students may be supported for a maximum of 4 years.

The Canadian Diabetes Association (CDA) administers the Charles H. Best Trust Fund to support research to enhance our understanding of diabetes and its prevention, causes, cure and management. The National Research Council (NRC) of the Canadian Diabetes Association, on the basis of ratings from the Personnel Awards review committee, makes final funding recommendations for Personnel Award, and Canadian Diabetes Association Great West Life, London Life and Canada Life Young Scientist Award applications. The Association welcomes applications submitted in French and every effort is made to have a bilingual CDA peer review committee. If it is not practical to have a fully bilingual peer review committee, the applications may be translated into English to ensure a comprehensive review process.

The award offers qualified researchers the training and experience necessary to establish themselves as independent researchers in applied health services (including nursing) and health policy. In addition to academic study, successful applicants work collaboratively with health system decision makers throughout the training period. Applicants utilize knowledge transfer training and techniques to effectively target dissemination efforts and research uptake. This enrichment will help: translate decision-maker concerns into research questions; communicate the possibilities and limits of research to decision makers; and develop the skills necessary to transfer knowledge to decision makers.

Graduate scholarships are intended for masters, doctoral and postdoctoral candidates whose research program deals specifically with the prevention of industrial accidents and occupational diseases or the rehabilitation of affected workers.
To find out whether your research interests correspond to the IRSST’s priorities, please consult the list of priority fields of research.
Candidates must be Canadian citizens or permanent residents domiciled in Québec.

An action strategy has been adopted by the IRSST’s Scientific Advisory Board to encourage the next generation of professionals in the research fields of Protective Equipment and the Safety of Industrial Tools, Machines and Processes. As a result, four scholarships will be awarded to candidates whose study subject is related to the research orientations of these two fields.

The Summer Programs in Japan or Taiwan provide graduate students in science and engineering with a hands-on research experience and an introduction to a different culture, language, and university research system. Awards are held for approximately eight weeks, from June to August. Exact start dates vary each year; successful candidates will be informed of the final program schedule. At the time of application, you must: be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident of Canada; be enrolled in a graduate program in the natural sciences or engineering at a Canadian institution; and have received advance acceptance from a potential host researcher in Japan or Taiwan.