The European Union Joint Programme on Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND), a global research initiative with 30 member countries, has launched a transnational call for research projects on understanding the mechanisms of non-pharmacological interventions for Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, motor neuron disease and other neurodegenerative diseases.

Together, Brain Canada and Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) will support up to 3 projects (max. amount $333,000 per grant over 3 years). Brain Canada funds will go toward one project with a focus on Parkinson’s disease, and CIHR funds are available to support research relevant to any area of the JPDN call.

Evidence clearly shows that increasing equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in research environments enhances excellence, innovation and creativity. Brain Canada and CIHR are committed to excellence through equity, and we encourage applicants of diverse backgrounds to apply to our funding opportunities.

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Deadline for receipt of pre-proposals: March 1, 2022, at 6:00 a.m. ET

Deadline for full proposals: June 28, 2022, at 6:00 a.m. ET

For more information, please contact Jill Sherman, International Research Facilitator at intl.research@lakeheadu.ca

This funding opportunity will provide support for the creation of two networks: one in the priority area of Oral Health and one in the priority area of Bone Health. The aim of these networks will be to provide research leadership, foster innovative research and practices, build capacity and provide a forum that engages the research community and its partners (including but not limited to industry, charities, and patients and their careers). The networks are expected to serve as a resource for collaborating, capacity building, and knowledge mobilization.

While the distinct research communities in Canada served by this funding opportunity are each fairly large, an organized approach will enable each community to build capacity, share resources, and seek out international collaboration in a productive and beneficial way. Each network will bring diverse researchers together and enable work in this field to progress more efficiently. The success of each network will be defined by the ability of each community to build capacity and to further research through the sharing of resources and developing national and international collaborations.

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are:

• To promote the creation of new knowledge that is relevant to communities affected by HIV and/or other STBBI in Canada;
• To promote the dissemination of new knowledge and uptake of evidence into action to enhance the community response to HIV and/or other STBBI;
• To develop partnerships between researchers and affected communities;
• To build capacity in the knowledge user community to engage in research and use evidence in their everyday business;
• To build the next generation of HIV and STBBI CBR researchers through meaningful engagement of trainees in high quality CBR projects; and
• To reduce the incidence of new HIV infections and/or other STBBI in key populations by focusing research on prevention efforts.

The goal of the Data Analysis Grants is to use existing cohorts, data platforms and/or administrative datasets to advance healthy cities intervention research and implementation science specifically by addressing one or more of the following objectives:

• Evaluating the impact on health and health equity of interventions to the physical, social or policy environment (including health system–mediated interventions);
• Contributing analyses to directly inform the planning of physical, social or policy interventions with the purpose of improving urban population health or health equity;
• Addressing critical contextual questions related to the implementation of one or more interventions and scaling up (knowledge sharing) of evidence-based interventions (including health system-mediated interventions);
• Filling knowledge gaps that are critical for laying the foundation for future population health intervention research in urban areas. For example, increasing our understanding around how interventions may impact populations differentially according to gender, age, race, culture, ethnicity, income, or dis/ability;
• Developing and/or validating indicators and other data or evaluation tools that enable robust, comparable, replicable and equitable healthy cities intervention research and implementation science (including health system-mediated interventions).

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to:

• Support partnerships between communities affected by HIV and/or other STBBI in Canada and researchers to facilitate the conduct of Community Based Research (CBR); and/or
• Develop future applications for more comprehensive CBR grants in the area of HIV and/or other STBBI in Canada.

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are:

• to support planning activities, partnership development and to increase understanding of the health research landscape that will contribute to the advancement of research consistent with the mandate of CIHR;
• to support dissemination events and activities that focus on the communication of health research evidence to the appropriate researcher or knowledge-user audiences, tailoring the message and medium as appropriate; and
• to support activities and events that ensure the inclusion and meaningful representation of individuals who have historically faced barriers in the research ecosystem, including but not limited to those marginalized by gender, Indigenous Peoples, racialized minorities, persons with disabilities, and members of LGBTQ2S+ communities.

Brain Canada is pleased to be partnering with ALS Canada to launch the ALS Canada-Brain Canada Clinical Research Fellowship. The fellowship aims to support the further training of a clinician to develop the skills necessary to become a specialist in ALS and promotes experience in clinical or fundamental research relevant to the field.

One fellowship of up to $200,000 for up to two years will be awarded through this funding opportunity.

Evidence clearly shows that increasing equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in research environments enhances excellence, innovation and creativity. Brain Canada and ALS Canada are committed to excellence through equity, and we encourage applicants of diverse backgrounds to apply to our funding opportunities.

Click here to view the Terms of Reference.

Deadline for receipt of Applications: February 25, 2022, at 13:00 ET