Simon Fraser University
Engaging the World

Funding and Award Opportunities

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Upcoming Major Deadlines and Funding Opportunities, June-July 2018

There are upcoming major grant deadlines and strategic funding opportunity deadlines in the next few weeks for SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant, NSERC I2I Competition, DND (IDEaS Innovation Network Competition- July 13 LOI), CANARIE (Research Data Management), George Weston Ltd (Seeding Innovation Grants), and BCIC Ignite (Round 6).
 
Other funding opportunities are also available in the following areas:
  • Muscular Dystrophy, Neuroscience, Diabetes Research, Military Health-Related Issues, Mental Health, Inactivity, Chordoma, HIV, Cancer Drug Discovery, Economics
  • Transnational and Global Team Grants on Cardiovascular Disease, Rare Disease, SPOR Data Platform, Personalized Medicine, Neurodegenerative Diseases, foreign affairs
  • Integrating Sex/Gender Analysis in Health, Environmental and Community Based Research
 

Major Deadlines

 

Deadline: June 15, 2018
Maximum Award: $25,000 CAD
The small-scale, stakeholder-driven partnerships supported through the Partnership Engage Grants are meant to respond to immediate needs and time constraints facing organizations in non-academic sectors. There are 4 application deadlines throughout the year (Mar 15, Jun 15, Sept 15, and Dec 15). The grants are valued at $7,000 to $25,000 over one year.
 
Deadline: July 03, 2018
Funding for college and university faculty members to support research and development projects with recognized technology transfer potential.
 
 

Strategic Funding Opportunities

 

Deadline: June 20, 2018
Maximum Award: $2,700,000 CAD
To support the development of RDM software that encourages the adoption of RDM best practices, and to enable compliance with evolving policy guidelines and international data management standards.
 
Deadline: June 27, 2018
Maximum Award: $250,000 CAD
George Weston Limited and Loblaw Companies Limited has launched a Seeding Food Innovation 2018 grant program to provide seed funding for interdisciplinary research or technology development that help accelerate solutions to sustainable food challenges in the areas of food production, distribution and consumption initiatives.
 
Deadline: July 13, 2018
Maximum Award: $1,500,000 CAD
The Department of National Defence seeks to understand and exploit advances in materials science to increase protection against current and future threats, and reduce protection system weight and discomfort to improve mission effectiveness
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Deadline: July 23, 2018
Maximum Award: $300,000 CAD
This program supports commercialization in the natural resources and applied sciences. Teams must be working on project(s) with the potential for significant benefit to British Columbia.
 

Early Career Funding Opportunities in Muscular Dystrophy, Neuroscience and Diabetes Research

 
Deadline: June 15, 2018 (LOI), and July 15, 2018 (full application)
Maximum Award: $60,000 USD
Muscular Dystrophy Association’s mission to free individuals from the harmful effects of neuromuscular disease.
 
Deadline: June 15, 2018
Maximum Award: $25,000 CAD
To support early career psychologists pursuing innovative work in neuropsychology, intelligence and/or the assessment aspects of cognition.
 
Deadline: June 26, 2018
Maximum Award: $750,000 USD
The primary purpose of the Career Development Award is to attract qualified and promising scientists early in their faculty careers and to give them the opportunity to establish themselves in areas that reflect the JDRF research emphasis areas.
 
Deadline: June 26, 2018
Maximum Award: $750,000 USD
Intended for clinical researchers at a relatively early stage of their independent career in diabetes-related clinical investigation.
 

Health Funding Opportunities on Military Health-Related Issues, Muscular Dystrophy, Mental Health, Health Impact of Inactivity, Chordoma, HIV, Cancer Drug Discovery

 
Deadline: June 14, 2018 (pre-application), June 28, 2018 (full)
Maximum Award: $200,000 USD
The Department of Defense (DOD) is soliciting research applications for the 2018 Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program (PRMRP) Discovery Award to support innovative military health-related research projects of exceptional scientific merit that will provide new insights, paradigms, technologies or applications.
 
Deadline: June 15, 2018
Maximum Award: $100,000 USD
MDA Research Grants are awarded to independent, established investigators to accelerate progress toward understanding and treating muscle disease.
 
Deadline: June 16, 2018
The objective of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to encourage innovative pilot and feasibility studies into mechanisms of HIV transmission, persistence, pathogenesis and co-morbidities in the oral cavity
 
Deadline: June 19, 2018
Maximum Award: $100,000 CAD
Cancer Research Society has a new competition that supports drug-repurposing projects to accelerate the discovery of treatments for cancer patients.
 
Deadline: July 13, 2018
Maximum Award: $400,000 USD
The Psychosocial Research portfolio supports research that addresses the interrelation of behavior, social, psychological and other quality of life factors that will benefit people living with spinal cord injury.
 
Deadline: July 16, 2018
Maximum Award: $149,996 CAD
A special grant award focused on a rare cancer that occurs in the bones of the skull base and spine, called chordoma.
 
Deadline: July 24, 2018
Maximum Award: $200,000 CAD
New funding opportunity to support an inactivity study involving older adults (55-65 yrs) and astronauts to better understand the health impacts of inactivity, and to evaluate the impact and effectiveness of a specific countermeasure protocol.
 
 

Transnational and Global Team Grants on Cardiovascular Disease, Rare Disease, SPOR Data Platform, Personalized Medicine, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Foreign Affairs

 
Deadline: June 15, 2018
Maximum Award: $292,500 CAD
A transnational call to promote the co-operation and interchange between Early Career Scientists in Canada and partner European countries, with the goal to enable international collaboration and establishment of new consortia in cardiovascular disease (CVD) research
 
Deadline: June 19, 2018
Maximum Award: $375,000 CAD
The aim of the call is to enable scientists in different countries to build an effective interdisciplinary collaboration with clear translational research approach focused on hypothesis-driven use of multi-omic integrated approaches for discovery of disease causes and/or on functional validation in the context of rare diseases.
 
Deadline: June 19, 2018
Maximum Award: $39,000,000 CAD
This funding opportunity supports a pan-Canadian Data Platform that leverages Canada's unique international leadership in patient-oriented research to address major barriers and inefficiencies in accessing or using multi-jurisdictional/ national data for patient-oriented research.
 
Deadline: June 25, 2018
Maximum Award: $350,000 CAD
This call for proposals to support research efforts across countries and disciplines to more rapidly find causes, develop cures and identify better ways to care for people with neurodegenerative disease.
 
Deadline: June 26, 2018
Maximum Award: $225,000 CAD
The aim of this call is to support multinational, collaborative research projects that will address important questions related to mental health and mental disorders across the entire lifespan.
 
Deadline: July 10, 2018
Maximum Award: €450,000 EUR
This call for proposals is to support young people on both sides of the Atlantic in being more involved in bilateral policy processes by promoting cooperation between Canadian and European youth organizations, associations and networks engaged in areas of common interest.
 
 

Funding Opportunities on Integrating Sex/Gender Analysis in Health, Environmental and Community Based Research

 
Deadline: TBA. Should be in July 2018
Maximum Award: $300,000 CAD
This important opportunity promotes the integration of sex and gender analysis in research projects at an international level in research topics relating to United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
 
Deadline: July 16, 2018
This funding call supports Canadian researchers interested in investigating sex and gender in health to promote the integration of sex and gender analysis in research projects at an international level in research topics relating to United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
 

Funding Opportunities in Economics

 
Deadline: June 22, 2018
Encourages and supports research that will benefit Canadian capital markets and Canadian investors.
 
 

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