2013 ICR News

August

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.
A breakthrough in the fight against triple-negative breast cancer: A team of Canadian and Australian researchers discover a promising treatment avenue (co-funded by CIHR)

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
Through this video clip, Génome Québec commends the excellence of Québec researchers and congratulates them for their exceptional performance in the Genomics and Personalized Health competition launched by Genome Canada and the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, which includes the support of ICR.
Research Profile on Medical Imaging Research

Government of Canada Announces New Personalized Health Research Projects Across Canada
The federal government announced 17 genomics and personalized medicine health research projects that aim to truly transform and improve the ability to prevent, diagnose and treat diseases. These projects were funded under the Personalized Medicine Initiative, through a partnership between CIHR, Genome Canada, and the Cancer Stem Cell Consortium.
Québec Researcher Catches DNA “Spelling Mistakes” Linked to Breast Cancer
The Early Career Award in Cancer 2012
ICR is very pleased to offer its heartiest congratulations to Dr. Marc-Étienne Huot as the 2012 awardee of the first ICR Early Career Award in Cancer.

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

CIHR Operating Grant: Winter 2013 Priority Announcement (Cancer Research) which includes the Breast Cancer (Bridge Funding) and Cancer Research (Bridge Funding). Registration deadline: February 1, 2013 and Application deadline: March 1, 2013.
Dissemination Events: Winter 2013 Priority Announcement (Cancer Research). Application deadline: February 15, 2013.
CIHR China-Canada Joint Health Research Initiative (2013). Application deadline: March 14, 2013.
ICR Knowledge Translation and Exchange Research Training Award (2012/2013). Application deadline: March 31, 2013.
Catalyst Grant : Environments, Genes and Chronic Disease. Application deadline: April 2, 2013.
ICR partners with the New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS) to support the NYAS-CIHR Institute of Cancer Research Early Career Investigator Travel Fellowships for the upcoming conference Nanotechnologies in Cancer Diagnosis, Therapy and Prevention on June 11–13, 2013 in Moscow, Russia.Application deadline: April 24, 2013.
Advancing Big Data Science in Genomics Research: Call for Proposals. LOI Application deadline: May 1, 2013.

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