The Operating Grant is a two-year grant designed to provide funding to research that may ultimately lead to a significant change in the understanding, diagnosis, or treatment of blood cancer.

Canadian researchers are invited to submit proposals to The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada’s Pediatric Blood Cancer Research Innovation Grant Competition. This grant is designed to challenge the current pediatric blood cancer landscape by providing funding for projects that will address unmet needs for pediatric blood cancers.

In the current era of targeted and immuno-oncology drugs being developed in adults, very few successful examples have been translated to childhood blood cancer treatment. Clear advances have occurred, but cure rates remain low for certain blood cancer types, along with considerable long-term effects from traditional therapies. For the benefit of children, a better understanding of tumor biology and further progress in drug development and treatment are needed.

The intent of the Physician Scientist Fellow Award is to encourage early-stage specialist clinicians to pursue a career in blood cancer research. The award is specifically targeted at MDs near, or recently at, the completion of specialty training in hematology, oncology, hematopathology, pathology, or other related disciplines and who have initiated or have immediate plans to begin supervised research training directed at blood cancers.

This opportunity is designed to foster, through provision of a contribution to their salary, the acquisition of skills and independence to conduct research in blood cancers at the laboratory, clinical or combined levels.

Quality of life issues for people affected by a blood cancer have been less well studied than other fields of research. The intent of this funding opportunity is to support new research designed to address quality of life challenges experienced by Canadians affected by blood cancers from the time of their diagnosis until entry into end-of-life care. Quality of life cancer research has the potential to make a significant impact on the burden of disease in patients, survivors and caregivers.

Diverse study types will be considered, including both interventional (e.g., feasibility, pilot, RCTs) and non-interventional studies (e.g., cohort, case-control, cross-sectional, measure development). Studies may include the use of quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods approaches to data collection and analysis.

Partnership Grants are expected to respond to the objectives of the Research Partnerships program. Proposals exclusively for partnered research training initiatives are expected to respond, instead, to the objectives of the Research Training and Talent Development program.

These grants provide support for new and existing formal partnerships over four to seven years to advance research, research training and/or knowledge mobilization in the social sciences and humanities. This is done through mutual co-operation and sharing of intellectual leadership, as well as through resources as shown by cash and/or in-kind contributions.

Partnership Grants are intended for large teams of postsecondary institutions and/or organizations of various types that work in formal collaboration.

The quality of training, mentoring and employability plans for students and emerging scholars will be evaluated as an important part of the proposed initiative. SSHRC’s Guidelines for Effective Research Training explain how students and emerging scholars can meaningfully participate in proposed initiatives.

The intellectual leadership and governance for a formal partnership can come from the research community and/or from partner organizations from the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. However, only an institution that meets the institutional eligibility requirements can administer the grant funding. For more information, see Eligibility.

Researchers interested in applying to this opportunity are asked to contact the Office of Research Services far in advance (at least two months) of the external deadline.

In 2021, Kindred Foundation established the Kindred Cares Grant to: 

• • Support programs, projects, operations and research in the area of hospice, palliative, and end-of-life care for children and adults with life-limiting conditions and their families. 

  • Address important questions and needs relating to the clinical care and preferences of adults and children with life-limiting conditions, and their families.