Team Grant - Emerging: Colorectal Cancer Screening

Colorectal cancer screening falls within the "Early Detection of Cancer" strategic research priority, one of the seven research priorities identified by the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR). This Request for Applications (RFA) will build on previous RFAs launched to support one-year Pilot Projects in colorectal cancer screening. The current RFA is intended to encourage innovative research likely to lead to improvements in colorectal cancer screening in Canada. Specifically, applications are sought that will indicate how to implement currently available technologies at a population level in order to reduce colorectal cancer mortality in Canada in the shortest time frame possible. Another critical objective will be to develop new screening tests for colorectal cancer that can stratify patients into low and high risk groups and do minimal harm in the process. Applicants are strongly encouraged to consult the Colorectal Cancer Screening Workshop Report for more detailed information on eligible research areas and to clearly indicate in their applications the way in which their proposed research will provide impact, reduce harm and add significantly to the body of current research in a new way.

A total of 5 Letters of Intent (LOIs) were received of which 5 were invited to submit a full application for the May 1, 2007 deadline.

Congratulations to the successful applicants.

Principal Investigator	Institution	Project Title
HARRISON, Marion L GRAFF, Lesley A LATOSINSKY, Steven THORLACIUS, Laurel S TURNER, Donna C	Cancer Care Manitoba	To Screen or Not to Screen? Addressing Testing and Information Barriers to Colorectal Cancer Screening
MOAYYEDI, Paul	McMaster University	Developing the optimum approach to colorectal cancer screening
RABENECK, Linda	Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre	CIHR Emerging Team: Colorectal Cancer Screening
TAI, Isabella T COLDMAN, Andrew J ELWOOD, Mark MACAULAY, Calum E PEACOCK, Stuart J ZENG, Haishan	University of British Columbia	Genomic, Imaging and Modeling Approaches to Advance Population-Based Colorectal Cancer Screening
ZANKE, Brent W	Cancer Care Ontario (Toronto)	CAncer Risk Evaluation (CARE) for colorectal carcinoma