Simon Fraser University
Engaging the World

These are upcoming funding opportunities from April to June spring 2019 in the area of medical and health science:

Visionary Grants
American Psychology Foundation (US)
Deadline: April 1, 2019
The APF Visionary Grants seek to seed innovation through supporting research, education and intervention projects and programs that use psychology to solve social problems.

Rapid Response Canada
Weston Brain Institute
Deadline: April 1, 2019
These opportunities provide funding for novel, high-risk, high-reward, translational research that will accelerate the development of therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases of aging.

Transformational Research
Weston Brain Institute
Deadline: April 1, 2019
To provide funding for translational research that will accelerate the development of therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases of aging.

CIHR Early Career Investigators in Maternal, Reproductive, Child and Youth Health
CIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health Research)
Deadline: April 2, 2019
The program supports early career investigators on research projects that has the potential to have a significant impact on maternal, reproductive, child and youth health outcomes.

Team Grant, Food Security and Climate Change in the Canadian North
CIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health Research)
Deadline: April 3, 2019
This funding opportunity supports multidisciplinary teams (of researchers, knowledge users and partners) to gain deeper understanding of food security and climate change in the Canadian North, and to facilitate the development of effective ways to address this issue.

Operating Grant : CEEHRC (Epigenetics) 2019
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Deadline: April 9, 2019
This funding opportunity is a key component of the second phase of the Canadian Epigenetics, Environment and Health Research Consortium (CEEHRC); a multi-agency, pan-Canadian initiative led by CIHR. CEEHRC is Canada's contribution to the International Human Epigenome Consortium (IHEC). The national research consortium networks all of the funded CEEHRC components, and expands their reach to the broader health research community in Canada and internationally.

Grand Challenges Solving global health and development problems for those most in need
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (US)
Deadline: April 10, 2019
The Grand Challenges family of initiatives fosters innovation to solve key health and development problems.

Health Professional-Investigator Competition
Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR)
Deadline: April 17, 2019
The MSFHR Health Professional-Investigator (HP-I) Program is intended to help close the gap between health research and its implementation by supporting practicing health professionals in applying/conducting research that leverages their practical knowledge in patient care in order to improve the patient experience and outcomes.

Team Grant : Transnational Cardiovascular Research Projects- Full Application
CIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health Research)
Deadline: April 29, 2019
CIHR and European funding partners are releasing the third 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. Areas of interest: hypertensive, ischaemic, pulmonary heart diseases and diseases of pulmonary circulation, other forms of heart disease, diseases of arteries, arterioles and capillaries and congenital malformations of cardiac chambers and connections and cardiac septa (analogues to ICD-10).

Team Grant : Transnational Cardiovascular Research Projects
CIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health Research)
Deadline: April 29, 2019
CIHR and European funding partners are releasing the third transnational call (JTC2019) 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. Areas of interest: hypertensive, ischaemic, pulmonary heart diseases and diseases of pulmonary circulation, other forms of heart disease, diseases of arteries, arterioles and capillaries and congenital malformations of cardiac chambers and connections and cardiac septa (analogues to ICD-10).

Team Grant, Indigenous Component of Healthy Life Trajectories (I-HeLTI)
CIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health Research)
Deadline: May 1, 2019
This funding opportunity will support teams to build infrastructure and capacity along the continuum of care and prevention from preconception to pregnancy, infancy and early childhood.

CIHR Barer-Flood Prize for Health Services and Policy Research
CIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health Research)
Deadline: May 1, 2019
Recognizes an outstanding contribution to health services and policy research, policy and/or care delivery in Canada.

Spinal Cord Injury Research on the Translational Spectrum [LOI]
Craig H. Neilsen Foundation
Deadline: May 6, 2019
Focuses on research designed to improve understanding and advance the current treatment of acute and chronic spinal cord injury.

Operating Grant : ECI grants in Maternal, Reproductive, Child & Youth Health- Full Application
CIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health Research)
Deadline: May 14, 2019
The objective of this funding opportunity is to support early career investigators in initiating and conducting independent research in the area of maternal, reproductive, child and youth health.

CIHR Early Career Investigators in Maternal, Reproductive, Child and Youth Health
CIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health Research)
Deadline: May 14, 2019
The program supports early career investigators on research projects that has the potential to have a significant impact on maternal, reproductive, child and youth health outcomes.

FY18 Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP)
Department of Defense (DOD), USA, Office of Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP)
Deadline: May 15, 2019
Applications to the Fiscal Year 2018 (FY18) Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP) are being solicited for the Defense Health Agency (DHA) to support research projects that will address the urgency of ending breast cancer.

Rapid Response Canada
Weston Brain Institute
Deadline: May 15, 2019
These opportunities provide funding for novel, high-risk, high-reward, translational research that will accelerate the development of therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases of aging.

Operating Grant, Active and Assisted Living Program
CIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health Research)
Deadline: May 24, 2019
CIHR in partnership with Active and Assisted Living Program offers a funding opportunity to support international collaborative projects in developing eHealth solutions to promote healthy ageing. The solutions need to be driven and co-created by end users to address a specific challenge.
 

Operating Grant, Network Environments for Indigenous Health Research (NEIHR)
CIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health Research)
Deadline: June 4, 2019
The purpose of the Network Environments for Indigenous Health Research (NEIHR) Program is to establish a national network of centres focused on capacity development, research and knowledge translation (KT) centred on Indigenous Peoples (i.e., First Nations, Inuit and Métis).

Team Grant, Human Immunology Initiative Research Teams
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Deadline: June 4, 2019
This funding opportunity will support projects in human immunology, in the field of autoimmune diseases, relevant to the following research areas: 1) normal immune function and dysfunction in relation to autoimmune diseases, including sex-related mechanisms and differences in prevalence and disease severity among at-risk populations; and 2) novel therapeutic strategies for autoimmune diseases, including new targets, efficacy and potential toxicity.

High Priority HIV/AIDS Research within the Mission of the NIDDK (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
National Institutes of Health (NIH, US)
Deadline: June 5, 2019
This funding opportunity supports research to study HIV AIDS comorbidities related to gastrointestinal, metabolic, endocrine, kidney, hemtatological and urological dysfunction (please refer to high priority topics as described in NOT-OD-15-137: NIH/HIV Research Priorities and Guidelines for Determining AIDS Funding.)

Other, Network for Global Governance Research on Infectious Diseases
CIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health Research)
Deadline: June 6, 2019
This funding opportunity will support the development of interdisciplinary research networks to inform effective global governance systems in order to be better prepared to respond to infectious threats and related challenges.

Preliminary Announcement, Call for Proposals, European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases
CIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health Research)
Deadline: June 11, 2019
The aim of this call is to enable scientists in different countries to build an effective collaboration on a common interdisciplinary research project in the area of rare disease mechanism, progression and diagnostics.

Next Generation Networks for Neuroscience (NeuroNex)
CIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health Research)
Deadline: June 14, 2019
This opportunity supports Canadian researchers in establishing collaborative networks comprised of international teams of disciplinarily-diverse researchers to build on existing global investments in neurotechnologies to address overarching questions in neuroscience

Operating Grant : Joint Programme on Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND) 2019- Full Application
CIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health Research)
Deadline: June 25, 2019
CIHR and funding partners in the EU Joint Programme – Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND) has launched a new call for proposals to support multi-national and multi-disciplinary collaborative research projects that address health and social care delivery at the macro level (system and infrastructures) as well as at the individual level. The end goal is to coordinate research efforts across countries and disciplines to more rapidly find causes, develop cures and identify better ways to care for people with neurodegenerative disease.