The Operating Grants competition is the principal means by which the Cancer Research Society fulfills its mission to support fundamental, early translational and Environment-Cancer research on all types of cancer in order to contribute to the advancement of science aimed at preventing, detecting and treating this disease.

The Canadian TREE Fund (CTF) is a registered Canadian charity established to promote arboriculture research in Canada. Research grants have been awarded nationwide for worthy projects. Individuals and/or agencies are invited to submit proposals for consideration. The scope of your proposal can vary in size with this grant being the sole source of funding or one of a variety of sources. The project will be evaluated with regard for the goals of the TREE Fund as a whole and the impact that can be made with each grant.

Ontario Genomics is pleased to announce that Genome Canada, in partnership with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), is seeking proposals for research projects to address any aspect of bioinformatics and computational biology (B/CB) as it relates to genomics. Proposals with applications across all of Genome Canada’s sectors are welcome. These include agriculture & agri-food, fisheries & aquaculture, forestry, energy, environment, human health and mining.

Genome Canada has identified B/CB as a priority area with the goal to create an environment that supports the creation and evolution of enhanced B/CB tools and methodologies. In August 2015, a B/CB Advisory Committee struck by Genome Canada and CIHR released a consultative version of a Strategic Framework for the future of B/CB in Canada. This competition builds on Genome Canada’s 2012 B/CB competition, also in partnership with CIHR, and seeks to advance the objectives of the proposed B/CB national strategy.

The major objectives of this Request for Applications (RFA) are to:

1. Support the development of next generation Bioinformatics and Computational Biology tools and methodologies that will be required by the research community to deal with the influx of large amounts of data produced by modern genomics technologies; and,
2. Provide broad access of these new Bioinformatics and Computational Biology tools to the research community.

Competition timeline

A limited number of Travel Awards to PhD or MD/PhD students, and post-doctoral/medical/clinical fellows are available. The purpose of this program is to defray the travel costs associated with making a scientific presentation as a first author or presenter at a conference, symposium or other appropriate professional meeting.

The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) announces the availability of three funding opportunities
for Research Fellowships in Transformative Pathology. These awards have been created to increase the
opportunities for training pathologists in the area of molecular diagnostic pathology in Ontario. Trainees
will be located either at an Ontario hospital or at OICR, and their training program will be established in
collaboration with the OICR Transformative Pathology Program.
The Transformative Pathology Fellowship has three streams:
1. Full Fellowship (three years)
2. Intermediate/CIP Fellowship (two years)
3. Introductory Fellowship (six months)

Full Fellowship:
• Must hold a medical degree and be currently enrolled in a speciality education program in
pathology in Ontario, or have recently completed a residency program in pathology; and/or
• Currently certified by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in a field of speciality
in pathology and have received an offer for a full-time faculty or equivalent position in an Ontariobased
institution.
Intermediate Fellowship:
• Applicants should be in postgraduate years 3-5; and
• Must be accepted into a Clinician Investigator Program at their host institution.
Introductory Fellowship:
• Applicants should be in postgraduate years 3-5; and
• Must receive formal approval to participate in the Transformative Pathology Fellowship Program
from their host institution prior to applying

Please distribute to students, faculty, and international contacts.

Mitacs is now accepting applications for competitive international research opportunities, including student travel to and from Canada. The deadline to apply is November 20, 2015, at 5 p.m. PST.

For students in Canada to do research abroad:

• Globalink Research Award – MHRD India
   
  • Open to senior undergraduate and graduate students
  • 12-week projects at one of seven Indian Institutes of Technology
  • $5,000 award and a local grant equivalent to $5,000
     
• Globalink Research Award – Campus France
   
  • Open to senior undergraduates and graduate students
  • 12- to 24-week projects at accredited universities in France
  • $10,000 award
     
• Globalink Research Award – Inria
   
  • Open to graduate students
  • 12- to 24-week projects at an Inria Research Centre in France
  • $5,000 award and a monthly stipend
     
• Globalink Research Award – MHESR Tunisia
   
  • Open to senior undergraduates and graduate students
  • 12- to 24-week projects at accredited universities in Tunisia
  • $7,000 award
     

For students in France to do research in Canada:

• Globalink Research Award – Campus France
   
  • Open to M2 and PhD students in France
  • 12–24-week research projects at Canadian universities
  • $10,000 award
     
• Globalink Research Award – Inria
  • Open to PhD students at Inria Research Centres in France
  • 12–24-week research projects at Canadian universities
  • $5,000 award, a PhD stipend, and airfare

To learn more, visit the Globalink web page or contact Mitacs International at international@mitacs.ca.

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) has issued a new call for proposals under its 2016-17 Contributions Program, which funds independent privacy research and related knowledge translation initiatives.

The Office invites proposals for projects that advance its new strategic privacy priorities:

• The economics of personal information
• Government surveillance
• Reputation and privacy
• The body as Information

This year’s call is putting particular emphasis on innovative approaches that seek to better understand and address issues related to our priorities.  The maximum amount that can be awarded for any single project is $50,000 and a maximum of $100,000 can be awarded per organization.

All proposals must be submitted by December 2, 2015.

Visit our website to learn more about the OPC Contributions Program or go to the 2016 Applicant’s Guide to see how to apply.

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are:

• to develop clinically applicable personalized pharmacotherapy approaches to medicine for immune mediated inflammatory musculoskeletal diseases
• to develop novel approaches to patient identification, classification, and stratification in immune mediated inflammatory musculoskeletal disorders
• to accelerate the translation of basic research discoveries into daily clinical practice
• to evaluate outcomes of interventions based on novel personalized medicine paradigms to demonstrate impact
• to generate country specific economic analyses based on novel personalized medicine approaches

To achieve the objectives and to add value to the research enterprise, the Network will:

• possess world-class capacity to address the identified research problem(s), challenge(s), or opportunity(ies)
• build a critical mass of technical and scientific expertise on a national and international scale to provide research leadership and enhance impact by bringing together a unified group of investigators and other stakeholders
• identify key knowledge gaps and promote/create national and international collaborations among researchers from multiple research pillars (i.e., biomedical, clinical, health systems and services, population and public health) and with knowledge users to address those gaps in a coherent fashion
• integrate research and knowledge translation projects into a coherent program which will generate solutions that will be implemented to produce social and economic benefits for both countries
• promote and facilitate the sharing of ideas, tools, methods, and resources and the dissemination of research outcomes
• incorporate a training and career development component

Relevant Research Areas

The Network must strive to harness the potential from multiple population-based patient cohorts and registries; and use state of the art platforms and technologies in order to develop personalized medicine approaches for immune mediated inflammatory musculoskeletal diseases.

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are:

• To provide salary support for up to four years to clinician researchers working in a health system setting enabling them to conduct original research that is relevant and responsive to the health system where they are embedded.
• Contribute to generating a strong cadre of clinician researchers across the country that will play a role in transformative change and act as role models and mentors for a cadre of new health professional scientists.