ICR Newsletter - June 2011

Table of Contents

1. New Principal Investigators Meeting

2. Funding opportunities

2.1 ICR Publication Prizes
2.2 Team Grant: Terry Fox New Frontiers Program in Cancer
2.3 Meetings, Planning and Dissemination (MPD) Grant
2.4 Café Scientifique Program

3. CIHR Roadmap Signature Initiatives

3.1 Personalized Medicine
3.2 Community-Based Primary Healthcare

4. Meetings supported by ICR

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1. New Principal Investigators Meeting

Registration is now officially open.

ICR is hosting a New Principal Investigators Meeting that will take place in conjunction with the first Canadian Cancer Research Conference on November 27-30, 2011 in Toronto. This event is targeted towards new faculty research members within their first five years of appointment at Canadian Universities, including new scientists and clinician scientists in the cancer research community.

2. Funding Opportunities

2.1 ICR Publication Prizes

Application deadline: June 30, 2011

ICR Publication Prizes are aimed at graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and residents from all disciplines working in the field of cancer research who have published research articles as first authors within 12 months of the application deadline. Work described must be done in Canada and relevant to the mandate of ICR. Trainees may enter their paper into the competition for a $1,000 prize.

2.2 Team Grant: Terry Fox New Frontiers Program In Cancer

LOI application deadline: July 1, 2011

The objective of the Team Grant: Terry Fox New Frontiers Program In Cancer is to support Canadian research programs in cancer that explore new frontiers in cure-oriented research (i.e., breakthrough and transformative biomedical / translational research providing information which may form the basis for innovative cancer diagnosis and/or treatment).

2.3 Meetings, Planning and Dissemination (MPD) Grant

Application deadline: June 15, 2011

ICR supports planning grants and dissemination events through the MPD program. Please consult the CIHR website to apply for the Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant: DISSEMINATION EVENTS - Spring 2011 Priority Announcement (Specific Research Areas) as well as the Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant: PLANNING GRANTS - Spring 2011 Priority Announcement (Specific Research Areas).

2.4 Café Scientifique

Application deadline: June 30, 2011

CIHR launched its Café Scientifique Program as an outreach initiative that would provide answers to questions of popular interest to the general public. Through its Café Scientifique program, CIHR organizes its own Café events but also establishes partnerships with non-profit organizations, universities, research centres, science centres and museums across Canada. Please consult the CIHR website to apply.

3. CIHR Roadmap Signature Initiatives

CIHR is addressing health and health system research priorities through its 8 signature initiatives. Two of these initiatives are highlighted below.

3.1 Personalized Medicine

The CIHR Institute of Cancer Research, Institute of Genetics, and Institute of Health Services and Policy Research, in partnership with several CIHR institutes, and in close consultation with provincial and federal funders, are leading a new strategic initiative in Personalized Medicine. This initiative aims to capitalize on Canadian health researchers' strengths in identifying disease-related genes and biomarkers and in translational research in order to integrate evidenced-based medicine and precision diagnostics into clinical practice.

3.2 Community-Based Primary Healthcare

The CIHR Institute of Health Services and Policy Research (CIHR-IHSPR) and its partners are pleased to announce the upcoming launch of a major ten year initiative to fund research that supports the delivery of high-quality Community-Based Primary Healthcare (CBPHC) across Canada. CBPHC includes health promotion and disease prevention, the diagnosis, treatment, and management of chronic and episodic illness, rehabilitation support, end-of-life care, and care coordination among others. The CBPHC Initiative will consist of two major tools: CBPHC Team Grants and CBPHC Scientist Awards. Please consult the IHSPR website to view the funding opportunities.

4. Meetings Supported by ICR

Montreal International Symposium on Angiogenesis and Metastasis - MISAM 2011

The CIHR Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) is proud to support the bi-annual Montreal International Symposium on Angiogenesis and Metastasis that is taking place in Montreal on June 15-17, 2011. This meeting will focus on the recent advances of colon cancer angiogenesis and liver metastasis. We wish all participants a successful conference and great accomplishments in their own research.