2012 ICR News
August
- ICR E-Newsletter - August 2012
- The CIHR Travel Awards Fall 2012 Competition has been launched. Application deadline is September 21, 2012.
July
- The funding opportunity Team Grant : Health Challenges in Chronic Inflammation Initiative is now lanched. The application deadline for letters of intent is November 15, 2012 and October 15, 2013 for full applications.
- Joint CIHR/Genome Request for Applications: 2012 Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Competition. Registration due date for the Genome Centres is July 20, 2012 and July 23, 2012 for eligible registrations of Genome Canada.
- The Operating Grant : Fall 2012 Priority Announcement (Cancer Research) is launched. Registration deadline is August 15, 2012 and include the following opportunities:
- The funding opportunity Dissemination Events : Fall 2012 Priority Announcement (Cancer Research) is launched and the application deadline is October 15, 2012.
May
- ICR has added two new funding opportunities to its Institute Community Support (ICS) Program for fiscal year 2012-2013. The total ICS program budget for 2012-2013 is $85,000 and is allocated as follows: $45,000 towards Travel Awards, $5,000 towards Publication Prizes, $25,000 for an Early Career Award, and $10,000 for ICR Knowledge Translation and Exchange Research Training Awards.
March
- The funding opportunity Team Grant: Canadian Epigenetics, Environment, and Health Research Consortium (CEEHRC) is launched. Application deadline is May 31, 2012 for the letters of intent and December 3, 2012 for full applications. ICR will fund through this RFA research teams who will address or elucidate epigenomic roles and mechanisms as they relate to cancer in, for example: childhood cancer, cancer stem/initiating cells and epigenomic mapping of tissues relevant to cancer heterogeneity.
- The NSERC/CIHR joint Collaborative Health Research Projects (CHRP) Program is launched with an application deadline of May 15, 2012 for letters of intent and October 1, 2012 for full applications. ICR will support the development and validation of diagnostics based on biomarkers, targets and genomic signatures, as well as of innovative devices for the application to patient practice.
- The Terry Fox New Investigators Award (2012) is launched. The deadline for application summaries is April 23, 2012.
- The Terry Fox New Frontiers Program in Cancer at CIHR (2012-2013) is available. Application deadline is July 3, 2012 for letters of intent and December 17, 2012 for full applications.
- ICR is inviting its community members interested in becoming a member of its Advisory Board to apply before the April 15, 2012 deadline by following the online application procedure.
February
- ICR E-Newsletter - February 2012
- CIHR and its partners, namely ICR, are pleased to announce the launch of the Innovation Team Grants: Community-Based Primary Healthcare (CBPHC) funding opportunity. Funds will be provided for teams undertaking programmatic, cross-jurisdictional and interdisciplinary research to develop, implement, evaluate, and compare innovative models for chronic disease prevention and management in CBPHC and improving access to appropriate CBPHC for vulnerable populations. Application deadline is May 1, 2012 for letters of intent and October 15, 2012 for full applications.
January
- CIHR and Genome Canada are launching the 2012 Large-Scale Applied Research Project Competition in Genomics and Personalized Health.
- ICR is co-sponsoring the workshop on "Personalized Medicine in Canada: A Multi-Stakeholder Workshop to Examine the Canadian Perspective" on 12-13 January 2012 in Ottawa in collaboration with Health Canada.