The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) announces the availability of three funding opportunities
for Research Fellowships in Transformative Pathology. These awards have been created to increase the
opportunities for training pathologists in the area of molecular diagnostic pathology in Ontario. Trainees
will be located either at an Ontario hospital or at OICR, and their training program will be established in
collaboration with the OICR Transformative Pathology Program.
The Transformative Pathology Fellowship has three streams:
1. Full Fellowship (three years)
2. Intermediate/CIP Fellowship (two years)
3. Introductory Fellowship (six months)

Full Fellowship:
• Must hold a medical degree and be currently enrolled in a speciality education program in
pathology in Ontario, or have recently completed a residency program in pathology; and/or
• Currently certified by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in a field of speciality
in pathology and have received an offer for a full-time faculty or equivalent position in an Ontariobased
institution.
Intermediate Fellowship:
• Applicants should be in postgraduate years 3-5; and
• Must be accepted into a Clinician Investigator Program at their host institution.
Introductory Fellowship:
• Applicants should be in postgraduate years 3-5; and
• Must receive formal approval to participate in the Transformative Pathology Fellowship Program
from their host institution prior to applying

Please distribute to students, faculty, and international contacts.

Mitacs is now accepting applications for competitive international research opportunities, including student travel to and from Canada. The deadline to apply is November 20, 2015, at 5 p.m. PST.

For students in Canada to do research abroad:

• Globalink Research Award – MHRD India
   
  • Open to senior undergraduate and graduate students
  • 12-week projects at one of seven Indian Institutes of Technology
  • $5,000 award and a local grant equivalent to $5,000
     
• Globalink Research Award – Campus France
   
  • Open to senior undergraduates and graduate students
  • 12- to 24-week projects at accredited universities in France
  • $10,000 award
     
• Globalink Research Award – Inria
   
  • Open to graduate students
  • 12- to 24-week projects at an Inria Research Centre in France
  • $5,000 award and a monthly stipend
     
• Globalink Research Award – MHESR Tunisia
   
  • Open to senior undergraduates and graduate students
  • 12- to 24-week projects at accredited universities in Tunisia
  • $7,000 award
     

For students in France to do research in Canada:

• Globalink Research Award – Campus France
   
  • Open to M2 and PhD students in France
  • 12–24-week research projects at Canadian universities
  • $10,000 award
     
• Globalink Research Award – Inria
  • Open to PhD students at Inria Research Centres in France
  • 12–24-week research projects at Canadian universities
  • $5,000 award, a PhD stipend, and airfare

To learn more, visit the Globalink web page or contact Mitacs International at international@mitacs.ca.

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) has issued a new call for proposals under its 2016-17 Contributions Program, which funds independent privacy research and related knowledge translation initiatives.

The Office invites proposals for projects that advance its new strategic privacy priorities:

• The economics of personal information
• Government surveillance
• Reputation and privacy
• The body as Information

This year’s call is putting particular emphasis on innovative approaches that seek to better understand and address issues related to our priorities.  The maximum amount that can be awarded for any single project is $50,000 and a maximum of $100,000 can be awarded per organization.

All proposals must be submitted by December 2, 2015.

Visit our website to learn more about the OPC Contributions Program or go to the 2016 Applicant’s Guide to see how to apply.

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are:

• to develop clinically applicable personalized pharmacotherapy approaches to medicine for immune mediated inflammatory musculoskeletal diseases
• to develop novel approaches to patient identification, classification, and stratification in immune mediated inflammatory musculoskeletal disorders
• to accelerate the translation of basic research discoveries into daily clinical practice
• to evaluate outcomes of interventions based on novel personalized medicine paradigms to demonstrate impact
• to generate country specific economic analyses based on novel personalized medicine approaches

To achieve the objectives and to add value to the research enterprise, the Network will:

• possess world-class capacity to address the identified research problem(s), challenge(s), or opportunity(ies)
• build a critical mass of technical and scientific expertise on a national and international scale to provide research leadership and enhance impact by bringing together a unified group of investigators and other stakeholders
• identify key knowledge gaps and promote/create national and international collaborations among researchers from multiple research pillars (i.e., biomedical, clinical, health systems and services, population and public health) and with knowledge users to address those gaps in a coherent fashion
• integrate research and knowledge translation projects into a coherent program which will generate solutions that will be implemented to produce social and economic benefits for both countries
• promote and facilitate the sharing of ideas, tools, methods, and resources and the dissemination of research outcomes
• incorporate a training and career development component

Relevant Research Areas

The Network must strive to harness the potential from multiple population-based patient cohorts and registries; and use state of the art platforms and technologies in order to develop personalized medicine approaches for immune mediated inflammatory musculoskeletal diseases.

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are:

• To provide salary support for up to four years to clinician researchers working in a health system setting enabling them to conduct original research that is relevant and responsive to the health system where they are embedded.
• Contribute to generating a strong cadre of clinician researchers across the country that will play a role in transformative change and act as role models and mentors for a cadre of new health professional scientists.

The CIHR-IPPH Trailblazer Award in Population Health Solutions is a career achievement award that recognizes exceptional contributions in the area of population health intervention research. Applicants must have made substantial impacts on the field of population health and its use in policy and/or practice in Canada and/or internationally. The award also recognizes the leadership, mentorship, and innovative contributions of the recipients. Up to two awards will be given, for exceptional researchers at different career stages.

2016/17 Call for Notice of Intent and Full Application Submissions
Launch Date: September 1, 2015
Notice of Intent Deadline: October 5, 2015
Full Application Deadline: November 4, 2015

The Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MOHLTC) is pleased to announce the Call for Notice of Intent and Full Applications for the 2016/17 HSRF Calls for Targeted Research competition. The purpose of the HSRF Calls for Targeted Research is to solicit and fund focused research applications within the following three (3) MOHLTC priority areas: Nursing, Problem Gambling and Tobacco Control.

For each of the three (3) priority areas, key knowledge gaps related to current/anticipated policy development and program development were identified as targeted research areas of interest for policy makers and knowledge users through a consultative process.

Please refer to the Detailed HSRF Calls for Targeted Research Full Application instructions for definitions of targeted research priority areas and areas of focus.

As in the 2013/14 HSRF Calls for Targeted Research, applicants will be assessed on the extent to which sex and gender have been considered in their proposed research (i.e., rationale, methods and knowledge translation and exchange (KTE) plan). Four additional cross-cutting components have also been identified for HSRF awards and applicants are encouraged to incorporate any/all of these components into their projects where applicable and/or feasible. These cross-cutting components are:

• Equity
• Aboriginal Health
• Patient-Centred Care
• Implementation Science

Please refer to the HSRF Guidelines for definitions and selected examples of government initiatives and commitments related to each cross-cutting component.

Ontario is calling on community groups to help protect, restore and enhance the Great Lakes by applying for a Great Lakes Guardian Community Fund grant.

Now in its fourth year, the fund provides a grant of up to $25,000 to not-for-profit organizations, schools, First Nations and Métis communities and other local groups for projects that have a direct environmental benefit to the Great Lakes. Past projects and activities supported by the fund have included:

• Planting trees
• Creating rain gardens
• Restoring wetland habitat
• Controlling invasive species
• Cleaning up beaches or shorelines
• Naturalizing stream banks and shorelines.

Applications will be accepted until October 23, 2015.

The Mitacs Globalink Research Award provides funding to support senior undergraduate and graduate student research projects abroad.

• Up to $5,000 in research award to the Canadian supervisor for student travel expenses
• Open to all disciplines
• For joint projects with academic collaborators over 12-24 weeks abroad
• Partner countries: Brazil, mainland China, India, Mexico, and Vietnam
• Applications accepted any time.

Mitacs recommends applicants submit applications by September 28, 2015, for projects starting in Winter 2016. If you would like to travel in Fall 2015, please submit your application tointsubmission(at)mitacs.caas soon as possible.