ICR Newsletter - February 2013

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1. Funding opportunities

  • 1.1. China-Canada Joint Health Research Initiative (2013)

    Application deadline: March 14, 2013.

    The program, established in 2005, is jointly managed and funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). Its aim is to promote the development of Canadian-Chinese scientific co-operation between universities, hospitals, research institutes or affiliated research organizations in Canada and China through the support of collaborative research grants. Relevant research areas include cancer. The total amount for this funding opportunity is C$3,375,000 from CIHR and 15,000,000 RMB from NSFC. The maximum amount awarded for a single grant is up to $75,000 per year for up to three years.

    Read more about the Canada-China joint agreement.

  • 1.2. CIHR Operating Grant : Winter 2013 Priority Announcement (Cancer Research)

    Registration deadline: February 1, 2013 – Application deadline: March 1, 2013.

    Breast Cancer (Bridge Funding)
    The CIHR Breast Cancer Research Initiative will provide funding for applications that are determined to be relevant to specific research priority areas. These one-year operating grants give new principal investigators the possibility to strengthen their proposals before resubmitting them, and they afford established principal investigators an opportunity to resubmit their research proposal without the loss of momentum, staff, or trainees. The total amount available for this funding opportunity is $100,000.

    Cancer Research (Bridge Funding)
    ICR will provide funding for applications that are determined to be relevant to its mandate. The objective of the CIHR-ICR Bridge Funding Operating Grants is to ensure the establishment or the maintenance of excellent research programs. These one-year operating grants give new principal investigators the possibility to strengthen their proposals before resubmitting them, and they afford established principal investigators an opportunity to resubmit their research proposal without the loss of momentum, staff, or trainees. The total amount available for this funding opportunity is $100,000.

  • 1.3. ICR Knowledge Translation and Exchange Research Training Award (2012/2013)

    Application deadline: March 31, 2013.

    The aim of ICR's KTE Research Training Award Program is to build research capacity by providing researchers with funding for KTE research training. The training may be acquired outside the applicant's home institution through participation in specialized KTE courses or through training with an expert researcher, knowledge user, or research team. Experts may be from within or outside the applicant's discipline. Investigators conducting research that is relevant to ICR's mission are eligible to apply for this award, worth up to $5,000.

  • 1.4. NYAS-CIHR Institute of Cancer Research Early Career Investigator Travel Fellowships

    Application deadline: April 24, 2013.

    ICR partners with the New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS) to support the NYAS-CIHR Institute of Cancer Research Early Career Investigator Travel Fellowship for the upcoming conference Nanotechnologies in Cancer Diagnosis, Therapy and Prevention on June 11–13, 2013 in Moscow, Russia.

  • 1.5. Advancing Big Data Science in Genomics Research: Call for Proposals

    LOI Application deadline: May 1, 2013.

    CIHR, NSERC, Genome Canada, and CFI plan to award one Discovery Frontier grant through this call. It is anticipated that the new knowledge, tools and infrastructure produced from this research will facilitate breakthrough discoveries and innovation in genomics, engineering, medicine, and other disciplines, pushing Canada to the forefront of big data science in genomics research. Potential applicants may contact the regional Genome Centres to discuss opportunities for guidance in developing their applications to this program.

  • 1.6. Dissemination Events: Winter 2013 Priority Announcement (Cancer Research)

    Application deadline: February 15, 2013.

    ICR will provide funding for applications that address the following research priority areas: (1) lifestyle, environment, and cancer prevention, (2) diagnosis and guided therapy: towards personalized medicine, (3) cancer initiation and intervention, and (4) cancer survivorship. The total amount available for this funding opportunity is one single grant of $25,000 maximum.

  • 1.7. Catalyst Grant : Environments, Genes and Chronic Disease

    Application deadline: April 2, 2013.

    The aim of this funding opportunity is to support new research relating to environment, genes and chronic disease, including novel research approaches and methodologies to address this research area. To encourage inter-disciplinary approaches to this research, applicants must collaborate with a colleague with expertise in a different discipline or field of research from their own.

  • 1.8. CIHR SPOR Networks - Call for Expression of Interest

    This call is being held from January 18 to February 28, 2013.

    The National Steering Committee of Canada's Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) is inviting the health research community to provide input on research network capacity in Canada. The goal is to identify existing and emerging research network capacity in patient-oriented research in Canada that could align with the SPOR network objectives.

2. Training opportunities

  • 2.1. 2013 Training Institute for Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health, June 3-7, 2013, St. Louis, Missouri

    Application Deadline: February 22, 2013.

    One of the most critical issues impeding improvements in public health today is the enormous gap between what we know can optimize health and healthcare and what actually gets used and implemented in every day practice. The science of dissemination and implementation (D&I) seeks to address this gap by understanding how to best ensure that evidence-based strategies to improve health and prevent disease are effectively delivered in clinical and public health practice. For more information, please visit the website. ICR provides training/travel grants that could be used to support the travel costs of interested investigators. Details on these two grants are provided on the ICR home page as part of the Institute Community Support Program.

  • 2.2. A communications workshop on Learn how to get your research into the media spotlight, June 6, 2013 in Montreal.

    Application deadline: March 15, 2013.

    If you are a researcher with an interest in communications and population and public health you are encouraged to apply to this full-day workshop. The workshop will be led by media experts from the Berkeley Media Studies Group. These experts will work with participants to help them develop skills they need to more effectively pitch their research findings to news editors and journalists whose news stories have the power to reach decision makers and affect their thinking and plans around public health policy. There is no registration fee associated with the workshop. Eligible travel and accommodation expenses will be reimbursed by the sponsors.

  • 2.3. Save the Date: 2013 New PI Meeting, November 3-6, 2013, Toronto

    The 2nd Canadian Cancer Research Conference has been scheduled for November 3-6, 2013 at the Sheraton Centre in Toronto. During this meeting, ICR and the Canadian Cancer Society will be hosting another New PI Meeting as part of the Careers in Cancer Research Development Program, which will also include career development lunch lectures as well as a career developmental portal and discussion forum. This meeting is an excellent opportunity for networking and cross-fertilization for researchers at all stages in their careers.

3. Early Career Prize in Cancer

  • ICR is proud to support, and congratulates, the new investigator Dr. Marc-Étienne Huot from the Laval University Cancer Research Centre through the ICR Early Career Prize in Cancer. This prize is awarded annually to a new investigator (under five years as an independent researcher) in the field of cancer with the highest ranking (by percent (%) rank) in the Spring or Fall Open Operating Grant competition.

4. Meetings of Interest to the Community

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