The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) is now accepting proposals for the 2021 Grants Program Strategic Initiative: Occupational Asbestos Exposure and Development of Gastro-intestinal Cancers (Systematic Review)

Proposal deadline: Monday, May 31, 2021

To express interest and obtain an application form, please email grants@wsib.on.ca.

New Funding Opportunity

The WSIB is seeking applications for a new funding competition. The WSIB Grants Program will be awarding one successful application for a systematic review of the scientific evidence examining if occupational asbestos exposure causes gastro-intestinal cancers.

Outcomes from the systematic review may be considered by the WSIB to determine whether the scientific evidence meets the recommended standards for scheduling, policy development or to underpin adjudicative support in case-by-case decision-making.

The review must address:

• Gastro-intestinal cancers and the individual cancers (i.e. cancers of the esophagus, stomach, small bowel, colon and rectum)
• Individual types of asbestos (i.e. chrysotile, crocidolite, amosite, tremolite, actinolite and anthophyllite) where possible
• Identification of

o   Any dose-response relationships

o   Interdependent causes or synergistic relationships

o   Subgroups of workers who have an increased risk of developing gastrointentinal cancers and/or any of the individual cancers

• Examine any evidence for a minimum interval (latency) between the first exposure to asbestos and the diagnosis of gastrointestinal cancer and/or any of the individual cancers

For more information about the strategic initiative and the application process, please visit our website.To express interest and obtain an application form, please email grants@wsib.on.ca.

Sincerely,

The HFSP fellowship program supports proposals for frontier, potentially transformative research in the life sciences. Applications for high-risk projects are particularly encouraged. The projects should be interdisciplinary in nature and should challenge existing paradigms by using novel approaches and techniques. Scientifically, they should address an important problem or a barrier to progress in the field.

HFSP postdoctoral fellowships encourage early career scientists to broaden their research skills by moving into new areas of study while working in a new country.

Two different fellowships are available:

Long-Term Fellowships (LTF) are for applicants with a PhD in a biological discipline, who will broaden their expertise by proposing a project in the life sciences which is significantly different from their previous PhD or postdoctoral work.

Cross-Disciplinary Fellowships (CDF) are for applicants with a PhD from outside the life sciences (e.g. in physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering or computer sciences).

Applications for the 2022 HFSP Long-Term and Cross-Disciplinary Fellowships (to start in 2022) will follow a new two-step submission process via the online submission platform ProposalCentral.

Firstly, applicants will be asked to submit a Letter of Intent from which the review committee will select the best proposals. In a second step, successful applicants will be invited to submit a full application.

Engaged Research Grants support research partnerships that empower those who have historically been among those researched in anthropology, rather than researchers themselves.   Designed in alliance with individuals who have born the impact of various kinds of marginalization, these partnerships bring together scholars and their interlocutors in the mutual production of anthropological knowledge aimed at combatting inequality and promoting the flourishing of human and more than human worlds.  The program supports projects that promise to make a significant contribution to anthropological conversations through collaborations in which engagement is a central feature of a project from the very start.

These grants further advance/translate projects with proof of concept and protected IP. Maximum request: $150,000 for one year, 1:1 matching required.

These grants fund partner-led initiatives to advance a partner challenge. Maximum request: $150,000 for one year, with possibility of one year renewal, 1:1 matching required.

These grants offer funding opportunities for clinicians to validate glycomics data from clinical studies. Maximum request: $50,000 for one year.

Partnership Engage Grants are expected to respond to the objectives of the Insight program and the Connection program. However, Partnership Engage Grants cannot respond exclusively to the objectives of the Connection program.

These grants provide short-term and timely support for partnered research activities that will inform decision-making at a single partner organization from the public, private or not-for-profit sector. The small-scale, stakeholder-driven partnerships supported through Partnership Engage Grants are meant to respond to immediate needs and time constraints facing organizations in non-academic sectors. In addressing an organization-specific need, challenge and/or opportunity, these partnerships let non-academic organizations and postsecondary researchers access each other’s unique knowledge, expertise and capabilities on topics of mutual interest.

Overview

Arthur B. McDonald Fellowships recognize early-stage academic researchers in the natural sciences and engineering and support them to enhance their research capacity, so that they can become leaders in their field and inspire others. NSERC awards up to six McDonald Fellowships each year.

Who can apply?

If you are an early-stage academic researcher, meaning that you have held an independent academic position for 10 years or less as of June 1 of the year of the competition and currently hold a grant from NSERC, you can prepare a nomination for this award.

An independent academic position is a position that:

• is a university faculty appointment (adjunct, non-tenured or tenured)
• requires that the researcher engage in research that is not under the direction of another individual
• authorizes the researcher to supervise or co-supervise the research of students registered in an undergraduate or graduate degree program, or postdoctoral fellows

A candidate submitting a nomination in June 2021 would have been hired on or after June 1, 2011. The 10-year eligibility window is adjusted to take into account eligible delays in research or periods of inactivity (e.g., due to parental leave, bereavement or illness). For example, a candidate submitting a nomination in June 2021 who took a seven-month parental leave after starting their appointment must have been hired on or after April 1, 2010, in order to be eligible. That is, the eligibility window is increased by two months for every month of eligible delay. For delays related to COVID-19, the eligibility window is also increased by two months for every month of delay. You must identify any such periods in the Delays in research activity section of your personal data form (Form 100), and the impacts of the research delay should be clearly and fully described.

If this award is of interest, please contact Dr. Batia Stolar, Associate Vice-President, Research & Graduate Studies, at avp.research@lakeheadu.ca for more information.

The specific objective of this funding opportunity are to:

• provide the base/infrastructure funding to the CRISM Phase II Regional Nodes that will allow research teams to organize and collaborate to address critical research in the area of substance use, and to allow them to:
  • identify and develop clinical and community-based prevention or treatment interventions and guidelines, including harm reduction, for substance use
  • provide evidence to decision makers, providers and stakeholders, to support the enhancement of prevention or treatment services, as well as policy development, regarding substance use
  • engage Indigenous Peoples in Canada in research and KT efforts in a manner respecting the rights of Indigenous Peoples and Indigenous self-determination and self-governance, such as following the First Nations Principles of OCAP® (i.e., Ownership, Control, Access and Possession)¹, or employing a distinctions-based approach, (see Additional Information)
  • support the improvement in the quality of care and quality of life for Canadians with substance use disorder
  • involve individuals with lived and living experience throughout the research process 
• conduct a Controlled Trial for management of methamphetamine use disorder aligned with the NIDA CTN

Environment and Climate Change Canada’s Climate Action and Awareness Fund (CAAF) has opened a request for proposals (RFP) for Advancing Climate Change Science and Technology Research. 

The RFP will fund up to $59M for projects that will strengthen Canada’s science capacity to understand, identify, accelerate, and evaluate actions towards achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

To be eligible for funding under this RFP, lead applicants must be one of the following:

• not-for-profit non-government organizations (NGO, e.g., environmental community groups),
• Indigenous organizations, or
• universities and academic institutions.

Lead applicants are encouraged to develop collaborative proposals and partner with other academic institutions and organizations, including federal, provincial, territorial, or municipal government partners.

There is a two-step application process, consisting of a Letter of Intent (LOI) phase open to all eligible applicants, followed by an invitation-only full proposal phase. The Applicant Guide and Application Form are attached, however applications will be accepted only through the Grants and Contributions Enterprise Management System. The deadline to submit a LOI is June 10, 2021.

The projects funded by this request for proposals must fall under one of the following themes:

Theme 1: Informing Carbon Sink Enhancements: Nature-Based Climate Solutions
Theme 2: Understanding the Potential for, and Implications of, Negative Emission Technologies
Theme 3: Understanding City- and Municipal-level GHG Emissions and Mitigation Effectiveness
Theme 4: Understanding Multiple Benefits of Integrated Mitigation Approaches for Greenhouse Gases and Air Pollutants
Theme 5: Understanding and Quantifying Transportation Sector Emissions in Canada

For more information, please visit the Climate Action and Awareness Fund webpage.

Applications can be submitted to this competition by institutions, not by individuals.  If you are interested in applying to this opportunity, please contact Andrew Hacquoil at ahacquo1@lakeheadu.ca.