BC Environmental and Occupational Health Research Network

JDRF is announcing a flexible funding opportunity for cutting edge clinical and pre-clinical research projects that address high priority topics serving the JDRF mission. Applications can be initiated via submission of a short, simple Project Concept form by email to the appropriate member of JDRF Program Staff. Project Concepts will be evaluated based on relevance to JDRF’s mission and priorities. If accepted, JDRF staff will assist applicants in developing their proposal. Program priorities are updated annually and can be found here.
Funding opportunities are available for the following:
Strategic Research Agreement – Single Project
Strategic Research Agreement – Multi-Project
Strategic Research Agreement – Clinical

The purpose of the Community Conference Grants Program is to support events which are organized by and/or for families with children with health challenges, including but not limited to children with acute illness, chronic illness, and disabilities. Eligible events will have a focus on information sharing with families and health professionals and/or community organizations. Please note that academic conferences are not eligible for funding.

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 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 Knowledge Translation award program is a new initiative of the CLA designed to facilitate the dissemination of knowledge related to respiratory health. The Canadian Lung Association (CLA) offers Knowledge Translation awards of up to $3,000 to respiratory health professionals who are members of the CRHP (MDs are not eligible for CRHP knowledge translation award support). Applications eligible for this award may include applied or clinical research using quantitative or qualitative methodologies, development of KT tools, systematic reviews, website development, etc.

Canadian Lung Association offers research grants of up to $20,000 to respiratory health professionals who are members of the CRHP. Additional funding is available through to nurses through the Canadian Nurses Foundation. The general objective of the research fund is to: promote research in areas that contribute to the field of respiratory health in Canada. Studies may include basic, applied or clinical research using quantitative or qualitative methodologies; build research capacity within the Canadian Respiratory Health Professional community; support Canadian Respiratory Health Professionals completing postgraduate studies in the completion of thesis-based degree programs.

This Catalyst Grant: Pilot Projects in Aging is being offered to encourage and stimulate new and established investigators to undertake new, high priority research challenges in the field of aging. It is expected that this targeted investment will enable researchers to generate preliminary data, validate methodology or tools, and/or explore novel (high risk) research ideas towards enhancing the success of subsequent applications to the CIHR open and strategic competitions focused on priority areas in aging.

The CIHR HIV/AIDS Community-Based Research 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 CFWH General Research Grants are awarded to those committed to finding solutions to the reproductive health issues that face women both in Canada and around the world. Open to any area within the field of obstetrics and gynaecology, these grants aim to help make further advancements in women’s health treatment, research, and education.

DEX research grants support innovative exploratory projects or pilot studies in the areas of behavioural, health services, legal/ethical/social/policy and psychosocial research that has the potential to improve breast cancer control or quality of life. Applications are invited from all sectors of the breast cancer care or research continuum, from community-based groups to established researchers.

CBCRA’s IDEA grants support innovative, new research ideas that are speculative, but have the potential for advancing scientific knowledge. They support small-scale pilot studies or investigations of concepts to permit the investigator to test out new ideas, which, although based on good science, are outside of existing conventional research paradigms and could be deemed speculative. The expectation is that these ideas, once explored, will lead to the development of proposals for more extensive research grants. It is not the intent of the program to provide supplemental, add-on funding in support of existing, ongoing investigations.

This program provides research support to individuals formally affiliated with Canadian universities or other recognized Canadian institutions. It is expected that the institution hosting the Principal Investigator will provide basic equipment, research facilities and administrative services. CBCRA/CIHR grants will support the purchase and maintenance of expendable supplies and services, equipment, and the salaries of individuals providing substantial contribution to the research, e.g. graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, technical and professional assistants and members of the lay community. These grants do not provide for personal salary support of grantees.
Pre-registration: February 1

The Alva Foundation funds organizations conducting research and/or developing services that address significant risk factors in early childhood development, prenatal through four years of age. It is our philosophy that healthy childhood development sets in place many mental, physical, and social attributes that determine the ability to develop into a healthy adult. We are interested in helping organizations that work in the areas of prevention. Research will look into risk factors that limit healthy early childhood development, prenatal to four years old; including but not limited to risk factors of a genetic, medical, societal and neurological nature. Increasingly, new research is proving that healthy early childhood development sets in place, often for life, many neurological, social, and learning factors and abilities. Applications will be considered from across Canada.

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada (LLSC) is accepting grant applications in the following two categories:
• Operating Grants
• Operating Grants in CLL
Funds for competitive applications will be awarded solely on the basis of scientific merit, using a priority rating, and will include evaluation of ethical research.

The Competitive Research Program (formerly “Funded research”) is intended for researchers who wish to conduct an occupational health and safety research project. The work may include studies, analyses, conception or development carried out according to a scientific process and likely to contribute to the advancement of knowledge.

The Collaborative Activity Grant Program is generally work defined in collaboration with the IRSST, and whose cost and duration are more limited than for a research project. For the most part, it is work that falls within the IRSST’s priority themes and that is preliminary to or follows a research project. This work mainly takes the form of literature reviews; preliminary, exploratory or feasibility studies; statistical analyses; or expertise activities applying a proven methodology or to promote a technique, approach or product resulting from an IRSST-funded project.

The Collaborative Research Grant Program covers work that may include studies, analyses, conception or development carried out according to a scientific process and likely to contribute to the advancement of knowledge. This work is defined in collaboration with the IRSST and falls within the priority themes.

In the face of the health challenges presented by acute illnesses, disabilities or chronic conditions, it is important for families to have information and knowledge sharing opportunities with health professionals and community organizations. The purpose of the Community Conference Grants Program is to support events which are organized by and/or for families with children with health challenges, including but not limited to children with acute illness, chronic illness, and disabilities. Eligible events will have a focus on information sharing with families and health professionals and/or community organizations. Please note that academic conferences are not eligible for funding.

A limited number of Travel Awards to senior level PhD or MD/PhD students are available. The purpose of this program is to defray the travel costs associated with making a scientific presentation at a conference, symposium or other appropriate professional gathering. Candidates must be attending a conference for the purpose of presenting data (paper or poster presentation) from a cancer-related project on a first-author basis. It is not a requirement that the research supervisor be supported by Canadian Cancer Society research grant.