2013 ICR News

August

Tribute to Dr. Anthony Pawson

June

CIHR Institute of Cancer Research Travel Awards
The CIHR Institute of Cancer Research is proud to provide additional travel awards for trainees to attend the Canadian Cancer Research Conference on November 3-6, 2013. All applicants are encouraged to submit the application form available on the CCRC website (Travel Award Application Form for the 2013 Canadian Cancer Research Conference [ PDF (183 KB) ]) by no later than August 23, 2013. The amount for a single award is between $500 and $1,000. Successful applicants of the CIHR Travel Awards - Institute Community Support program will not be eligible to receive additional funding from this travel award opportunity.

May

April

Harper Government supports Canadian National Transplant Research Program
The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health announced the launch of a new national transplantation research program that will develop new knowledge and health care practices that address barriers to tissue and organ donation and will improve health outcomes for transplant recipients in Canada. The CNTRP brings together over 105 investigators across 9 provinces and is the first program in the world to unite and integrate the solid organ transplant, bone marrow transplant and the donation and critical care research communities together in a ground-breaking national research endeavour. Funding for this program, in the order of $13.85M, is being provided through CIHR (including ICR) in partnership with Canadian Blood Services, Canadian Liver Foundation, Cystic Fibrosis Canada, Fonds de recherche du Québec-Santé, Genome BC, and the Kidney Foundation of Canada.

Funding Decision: Transplantation Research – Full Application – 201212TFU

February

There are several cancer funding opportunites that have been launched and that are of interest to the research community:

January

ICR and IG partnered on the APBC Travel Award for The Eleventh Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference on January 21-13, 2013 in Vancouver, BC.