Catalyst Grant: Skin Diseases and Conditions – Funding Decisions Notification (February 2008 Competition – 200802SAC)

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) is pleased to announce the results of the Catalyst Grant: Skin Diseases and Conditions competition.

Funding Opportunity Summary

The objectives of the Catalyst Grant: Skin Diseases and Conditions were to:

• Generate preliminary observations, data or knowledge, or to facilitate team formation, as a first step towards the pursuit of more comprehensive funding opportunities (e.g., operating grants, team grants) by researchers or teams of researchers
• Provide new or established investigators with funding to pursue new areas of investigation
• Provide the opportunity for a unique combination (e.g. multi-disciplinary, trans-disciplinary, international) of individual researchers to develop as a team
• Mobilization of research communities to develop research agendas and/or action plans to advance research in specific priority areas.

Funding Competition Summary

A total of 13 applications were received of which 6 were approved for funding.

Contact Information

For further information about this competition, please contact:

Jennifer Lee
Team Lead, Knowledge Creation Programs
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Telephone: 613-957-6125
Fax: 613-954-1800
Email: Jennifer.lee@cihr-irsc.gc.ca

For further information about this initiative and the objectives of this funding opportunity please contact:

Alita Perry
Project Manager / Analyst
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Telephone: 613-954-3469
Fax: 613-954-1800
Email: alita.perry@cihr-irsc.gc.ca

Funding Decisions Data Report

Access the "Catalyst Grant: Skin Diseases and Conditions" funding decisions data report.