Issue 213
Contents
1) President’s Message
a) Open letter from Alain Beaudet, President of CIHR, to Canada’s health researchers
2) Funding Opportunities
a) Funding opportunities posted between March 4 and April 14, 2016 by CIHR and its partners
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1) President’s Message
a) Open letter from Alain Beaudet, President of CIHR, to Canada’s health researchers
Dear colleagues,
I am writing to you today to reaffirm CIHR’s commitment to promote Canadian health research excellence and to engage with Canada’s health research community.
As you are I am sure aware, in Budget 2016, the Government of Canada provided CIHR with an additional $30 million per year. This sends a strong signal that the new Government is firmly committed to supporting health research, and specifically investigator-initiated research, including basic science.
This new investment will be entirely dedicated to the ongoing and future Project Grant competitions with a focus on early career investigators. Continue reading
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2) Funding Opportunities
a) Funding opportunities posted between March 4 and April 14, 2016 by CIHR and its partners
The following is a list of funding opportunities which CIHR and its partners posted between March 4 and April 14, 2016.
To view these opportunities, please use the CIHR Funding Opportunity Database.
Simply select the opportunity from the list which is sorted alphabetically.
* Catalyst Grant: Catalyzing Innovation in Preterm Birth Research
* Chair: The Wilfred and Joyce Posluns Chair in Women’s Brain Health
* Clinician-Scientist Salary Award: 2016-2017
* Fellowship: Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships Program (2016-2017)
* Operating Grant: Active and Assisted Living Joint Programme (AAL JP) 2016 - Dementia
* Operating Grant: Collaborative Health Research Projects (NSERC Partnered) (2016-2017)
* Operating Grant: SPOR PIHCI Network – Knowledge Synthesis Grants
* Other: Canada Graduate Scholarships – Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement (2016-2017)
* Other: CIHR Gold Leaf Prize for Discovery
* Other: CIHR Gold Leaf Prize for Impact
* Other: CIHR Gold Leaf Prize for Outstanding Achievements - Early Career Investigator
* Other: CIHR Gold Leaf Prize for Transformation: Patient Engagement
* Team Grant: Multi omics for the immune system
* Team Grant: Preterm Birth Network
Please direct specific inquiries on the funding opportunity to the contact person listed at the bottom of the funding opportunity.
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CIHR Wants to Hear from You
Absence does not make the heart grow fonder – CIHR wants to hear from you as much as possible. There is a wonderful story to tell about the results and benefits of health research in Canada, but we need your help to truly make this a page turner. And, we need to keep telling this story. So, we encourage you to let us know when you have or, better still, are close to publishing the results of research funded by CIHR. Please drop us a line at mediarelations@cihr-irsc.gc.ca.
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Useful CIHR Contacts
General Inquiries: 613-941-2672
Grants & Awards Information: 613-954-1968
Media Relations: 613-941-4563
Ethics Office: 613-941-6706
Technical / IT Help Desk: 613-941-0068
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Françoise Hinca
Advisor-Research Documentation / Operations Support
Canadian Institutes of Health Research / Government of Canada
research.news@cihr-irsc.gc.ca / Tel: 613-941-3504
Conseillère-Documentation liée à la recherche / Soutien opérationnel
Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada / Gouvernement du Canada
nouvellesdelarecherche@cihr-irsc.gc.ca / Tél: 613-941-3504