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Engaging the World

Funding and Award Opportunities

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Upcoming Major Deadlines and Funding Opportunities, April 2018

The Tri-Agencies, MSFHR, Canada Council for the Arts, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Defense (DOD), and other sponsors are offering funding opportunities in the following areas:

Implementation science, social and natural sciences, humanities, health science and engineering, gender inequality, education, anthropology, big data, health technologies, genomics (rare diseases), aging, neurodegeneration, Alzheimer’s, cognitive impairment, spinal cord injury, chordoma, breast cancer, and child and youth health.

 

Major Deadlines

Implementation Science Team (MSFHR) *NEW- SFU Signature Sheet required at LOI stage

LOI Deadline: April 16, 2018
Application Deadline: Jan 2019
Maximum Award: $10,000 CAD
Supports research in the area of implementation science, which examines the process of implementing an intervention, or adapting an intervention to settings different from the ones in which it was originally developed and tested.

Collaborative Research and Training Experience (NSERC) *Limited quota. Contact ORS by Apr 16

LOI Deadline: May 01, 2018
Application Deadline: Sep 22, 2018
Maximum Award: $1,650,000 CAD
CREATE supports the training of teams of highly qualified graduate (master's and doctoral) students from Canada and abroad through the development of innovative training programs. *Contact ORS by April 16, 2018 if you intend to apply.
 
Deadline: May 01, 2018
Maximum Award: $25,000
Connection Grants support workshops, colloquiums, conferences, forums, summer institutes or other events or outreach activities geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives.
 
Killam Research Fellowships (Canada Council for the Arts) *NEW submission process
Deadline: May 15, 2018
Maximum Award: $70,000 CAD
Awarded to active Canadian scholars who have made a significant and remarkable contribution to their respective fields in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, health sciences or engineering

 

SFU Internal Grants

 
Deadline: April 13, 2018
Maximum Award: $10,000 CAD
SFU’s Office of Community Engagement is accepting proposals for initiatives that advance the goals of SFU’s community engagement strategy by building new or deeper mutually beneficial partnerships with SFU’s communities, including nonprofit organizations, industry associations, NGOs, and local, first nations, provincial and federal government departments.

 

Global Funding Opportunities

Grand Challenges Canada and Global Affairs Canada have international funding calls in the area of gender inequality.
 
Deadline: May 01, 2018
Maximum Award: $20,000,000 CAD
 
Deadline: TBD (competition will be launched sometime in April)
Maximum Award: $10,000,000 CAD
 
 

Funding opportunities in education and anthropology

The US Spencer Foundation (US) and Wenner-Gren Foundation (US) have opportunities to support scholarly works to improve of education and to advance ideas in anthropological theory and debates.

 

Deadline: May 01, 2018
Maximum Award: $50,000 USD
 
Deadline: May 01, 2018
 
 

Funding opportunities in personalized medicine, big data & health technologies

CIHR, NIH (US), and Canadian Space Agency are offering funding opportunities in the area of big data solutions for health, health technologies for type 1 diabetes in older adults, and technologies to study spaceflight health risks

 

Deadline: April 17, 2018
Maximum Award: $39,000,000 CAD
 
Deadline: April 18, 2018
Maximum Award: $800,000 CAD
 
Deadline: April 26, 2018
Maximum Award: $500,000 USD
 
Deadline: April 26, 2018
Maximum Award: $750,000 CAD

 

 

Funding Opportunities in Genomics

CIHR funding opporutnity to support research in the area of rare disease genetics
 
Deadline: May 15, 2018
Maximum Award: $420,000 CAD

 

 

Funding Opportunities in Neuroscience

A number of agencies are offering funding opportunities to support research in the areas of neurodegeneration, cognitive impairment, autism, Huntington’s disease, Down Syndrome, spinal cord injury, and brain recording technologies.
 
Deadline: April 17, 2018
 
Rapid Response: Canada 2018 (Weston Brain Institute)
LOI Deadline: April 19, 2018
Maximum Award: $200,000 CAD
 
Deadline: April 18, 2018
 
Deadline: April 27, 2018
Maximum Award: $750,000 CAD
 
Deadline: April 30, 2018
Maximum Award: $120,000 CAD
 
Deadline: May 04, 2018
 
Deadline: May 15, 2018
 
 

Funding opportunites in cancer research

Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute (CCSRI) and the US Department of Defense (DOD) have funding opportunities to support cancer research for chordoma and breast cancers.
 
Chordoma Research Grants (Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute – CCSRI)
Registration: May 1, 2018
Deadline: July 16, 2018
Maximum Award: $149,996 CAD
 
Next Deadline: May 15, 2018
Funding call series to address the urgency of ending breast cancer
 
 

New investigator funding opportunities- maternal, child & youth health

CIHR and SickKids Foundation have funding opportunities for new investigators in the area of maternal, child and youth health, and human development.
 
Registration Deadline: April 17, 2018
Full Application Deadline: May 15, 2018
Maximum Award: $105,000 CAD
 
Deadline: April 20, 2018
Maximum Award: $300,000 CAD

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