The SickKids Foundation-CIHR-IHDCYH New Investigator Research Grants in Child and Youth Health program seeks to strengthen Canada’s capacity and knowledge to respond to children’s health challenges and needs. The grants are jointly sponsored by SickKids Foundation and the CIHR Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health (IHDCYH). New investigators (also referred to by CIHR as early career researchers) may obtain up to three years’ support for research in biomedical, clinical, health systems and services, population and public health sectors that has the potential for significant impact on children’s health outcomes.

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are:

• To understand and address the acute mental health and/or substance use needs of individuals, communities and/or populations, and/or the effects on related care systems, due to the COVID-19 pandemic; and
• To develop the evidence to better match access to mental health and/or substance use services with the people who need them the most, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Applications must be in alignment with both of the objectives to be deemed relevant to this funding opportunity.

The Azrieli Foundation is pleased to announce the “Back on Track from COVID19” funding opportunity for clinical and fundamental researchers working in the area of neurodevelopmental disorders. 

This opportunity addresses the interruption to biomedical research laboratories and clinical research as a result of the COVID19 emergency.

The funds are intended to cover costs to research incurred by facility shutdown or changes in work plans due to social distancing, assisting graduate student progress to complete research, and to mitigate the loss of promising discoveries and ideas.

The award (up to $CDN 10,000) will be used to supplement an already awarded peer-reviewed grant/project, and selection will prioritize Early Career Researchers.

To access the application form, instructions and timelines, please visit our website.

Please send inquiries to: science.grants@azrielifoundation.org

Connection Grants are expected to respond to the objectives of the Connection program.

These grants support events and outreach activities geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives. These events and activities represent opportunities to exchange knowledge and to engage on research issues of value to those participating. Events and outreach activities funded by a Connection Grant may often serve as a first step toward more comprehensive and longer-term projects.

Connection Grants support workshops, colloquiums, conferences, forums, summer institutes, or other events or outreach activities that facilitate:

• disciplinary and/or interdisciplinary exchanges in the social sciences and humanities;
• scholarly exchanges between those working in the social sciences and humanities and those working in other research fields;
• intersectoral exchanges between academic researchers in the social sciences and humanities and researchers and practitioners from the public, private and/or not-for-profit sectors; and/or
• international research collaboration and scholarly exchanges with researchers, students and non-academic partners from other countries.

NSERC is pleased to announce a jointly funded initiative with Environment and Climate Change Canada to support research that will increase scientific knowledge to achieve Canada’s zero plastic waste targets and to inform the advancement of policy and regulatory measures.

This call focuses on research to detect and characterize plastics in the environment, and exposure and effects of plastics on wildlife and human health. The funding will support a series of multidisciplinary, collaborative projects in an effort to increase research capacity, as well as collaboration, to help close the gaps in our understanding of plastic pollution and its impacts. The aim is to generate new knowledge to support policy and decision-making related to plastic pollution, as well as to the objectives of the Canada-wide strategy on zero plastic waste.

For more information about this funding opportunity, please refer to the Call for Proposals. For all questions, please contact RP-Initiatives-PR@nserc-crsng.gc.ca.

The FY20 Defense Appropriations Act provides funding to the Department of Defense Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Research Program (DMDRP) to support research addressing discovery and development of therapeutics, devices, and other interventions.  As directed by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, the Defense Health Agency J9, Research and Development Directorate manages the Defense Health Program (DHP) Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E) appropriation.  The managing agent for the anticipated Program Announcements/Funding Opportunities is the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) at the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command (USAMRDC).

The FY20 DMDRP Program Announcements and General Application Instructions for the following award mechanisms are posted on the Grants.gov website.    

https://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/dmdrp

Idea Development Award – Pre-application due August 12, 2020

Independent investigators at all academic levels (or equivalent).

• Supports the development of innovative, high-impact ideas that advance the understanding of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and ultimately lead to improved outcomes.
• Must address opportunities and challenges in the development of safe and effective macromolecular and cellular therapies that address primary pathology of DMD.  Eligible therapeutic strategies include: gene therapy, genome editing, oligonucleotide therapies, exon skipping, protein therapeutics, and cell therapies. Therapies that will be efficacious across the life-span, particularly in adolescents and adults are encouraged.
• Preliminary data are required.
• Clinical trials are not allowed.
• Maximum funding of $350,000 for direct costs (plus indirect costs).
• Maximum period of performance is 2 years

Translational Research Partnership Award – Pre-application due August 12, 2020

Investigators at or above the level of Assistant Professor (or equivalent)

• Supports the development of translational research collaborations between two independent investigators to address a critical problem or question in DMD and to accelerate the movement of promising ideas into clinical application.
• Partnerships where one partner in the collaboration is a research scientist and the other is a clinician are strongly encouraged.
• Must address one of the FY20 Translational Research Partnership Award Focus Areas
• Preliminary data are required.
• Clinical trials are allowed.
• Maximum combined funding of $1,200,000 for direct costs (plus indirect costs)
• Maximum period of performance is 3 years

A pre-application is required and must be submitted through the electronic Biomedical Research Application Portal (eBRAP) at https://eBRAP.org prior to the pre-application deadline.  All applications must conform to the final Program Announcements and General Application Instructions available for electronic downloading from the Grants.gov website.  The application package containing the required forms for each award mechanism will also be found on Grants.gov.  A listing of all CDMRP and other USAMRDC extramural funding opportunities can be obtained on the Grants.gov website by performing a basic search using CFDA Number 12.420. 

For email notification when Program Announcements are released, subscribe to program-specific news and updates under “Email Subscriptions” on the eBRAP homepage at https://eBRAP.org.  For more information about the DMDRP or other CDMRP-administered programs, please visit the CDMRP website (https://cdmrp.army.mil).

Point of Contact:

CDMRP Help Desk
301-682-5507
help@eBrap.org

The FY20 Defense Appropriations Act provides funding to the Department of Defense Lupus Research Program (LRP) to support the full spectrum of research projects or ideas that specifically focus on scientific and clinical lupus issues, which, if successfully addressed, have the potential to make a major impact in lupus research.  As directed by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, the Defense Health Agency J9, Research and Development Directorate manages the Defense Health Program (DHP) Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E) appropriation.  The managing agent for the anticipated Program Announcements/Funding Opportunities is the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) at the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command (USAMRDC).

The FY20 LRP Program Announcements and General Application Instructions for the following award mechanisms are posted on the Grants.gov website.

Applications submitted to the FY20 LRP Idea Award and/or Impact Award must address one or more of the following Focus Areas:

• Understanding how lupus disease heterogeneity impacts risk of disease, disease presentation, clinical course, and outcomes; using a diverse range of research disciplines including, but not limited to, biopsychosocial studies, personalized medicine, variation in treatment studies, personalized medicine, variation in treatment studies, health economics, socioeconomic studies, environmental studies, and epidemiological studies
• Understanding lupus disease heterogeneity including, but not limited to, strategies and technologies to subtype patients and understanding lupus disease mechanisms
• Improving quality of life for individuals living with lupus including, but not limited to, access to healthcare resources, outcome research, symptom control, comparative effectiveness research, and issues and challenges that when addressed make day-to-day living with lupus easier and life more fulfilling
• Understanding how the underlying genetic components and gene-environment interactions of lupus relate to clinical disease characteristics using functional genomic studies
• Determining the pathobiology of lupus disease in target human tissues including, but not limited to, imagining studies, genomics of lupus in particular tissues, and metabolomics

Applications submitted to the FY20 LRP Transformative Vision Award must address the following Focus Area:

• Improving quality of life for individuals living with lupus including, but not limited to, access to healthcare resources, outcome research, symptom control, comparative effectiveness research, and issues and challenges that when addressed make day-to-day living with lupus easier and life more fulfilling

https://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/lrp

Idea Award – Letter of Intent Due August 25, 2020

All investigators at or above the level of postdoctoral fellow (or equivalent)

• Supports highly innovative, untested, potentially groundbreaking ideas in lupus research.
• Emphasis is on innovation
• Must address one of the Fiscal Year 2020 (FY20) LRP Focus Areas
• Clinical trials are not allowed
• Preliminary data are not required
• The maximum allowable funding for the entire period of performance is  in total costs
• The maximum period of performance is 2 years

Impact Award – Letter of Intent is Due August 25, 2020

Investigators at or above the level of Assistant Professor (or equivalent)

• Supports innovative, high-risk/high-reward research
• Emphasis is on impact
• Must address one of the FY20 LRP Focus Areas
• Clinical trials are not allowed
• Preliminary data are encouraged but not required
• The maximum allowable funding for the entire period of performance is $750,000 in total costs.
• The maximum period of performance is 4 years

Transformative Vision Award – Letter of Intent due August 25, 2020

Independent Investigators at or above the level of Assistant Professor (or equivalent)

• Supports high-risk, high-reward studies that have the potential to make a significant near-term impact on the quality of life of lupus patients
• Emphasis is on near-term impact to quality of life
• Must address the FY20 LRP TVA Focus Areas
• Clinical trials are allowed
• Animal studies are not allowed
• Preliminary data are required
• The maximum allowable funding for the entire period of performance is $2,500,000 in total costs
• The maximum period of performance is 4 years

A pre-application is required and must be submitted through the electronic Biomedical Research Application Portal (eBRAP) at https://eBRAP.org prior to the pre-application deadline.  All applications must conform to the final Program Announcements and General Application Instructions available for electronic downloading from the Grants.gov website.  The application package containing the required forms for each award mechanism will also be found on Grants.gov.  A listing of all CDMRP and other USAMRDC extramural funding opportunities can be obtained on the Grants.gov website by performing a basic search using CFDA Number 12.420. 

For email notification when Program Announcements are released, subscribe to program-specific news and updates under “Email Subscriptions” on the eBRAP homepage at https://eBRAP.org.  For more information about the LRP or other CDMRP-administered programs, please visit the CDMRP website (https://cdmrp.army.mil).

Point of Contact:

CDMRP Help Desk
301-682-5507
help@eBrap.org

The Canadian Wood Fibre Centre (CWFC) is seeking proposals to fund projects which address the objectives of the Canadian Wood Fibre Centre and Government of Canada priorities in the forestry sector.

The deadline for submitting applications is no later than 11:59 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time, Tuesday, July 14, 2020.

The Canadian Wood Fibre Centre is a research branch within Natural Resources Canada’s Canadian Forest Service. As part of the Forest Innovation Program, the CWFC supports research and development activities that contribute to bring innovative solutions to the Canadian forest industry. The objectives of the CWFC are to develop, improve and share wood fibre-related knowledge and tools in support of forest management decisions in three research areas:

Characterization of forest biomass and enhancement of fibre production for the bioeconomy

Modeling of growth and yield of trees under global change and adaptive silviculture

Development of innovative solutions for forest management 4.0

Information on the contribution process can be found here and in the Application Guide.

Should you require further information, please direct queries to the CWFC mailbox.