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; and
• 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.

The Department of National Defence and Canadian Armed Forces (DND/CAF) are seeking innovative AI (Artificial Intelligence)-driven solutions that fuse heterogeneous multi-domain data streams to provide real-time, explainable, and policy-aware situational awareness for operational decision-making. By increasing situational awareness on the battlefield, this new technology will reduce system vulnerabilities and increase speed of decision making.

Led by the Cancer Research Society, with the Terry Fox Research Institute and Canadian Cancer Society as co-leads, this first-ever national program aims to empower Canadian doctors and researchers to design and conduct cutting-edge clinical trials. The program aims to foster the development of innovative treatments, improve patient care, and address priority clinical questions, including those related to rare and understudied cancers.

This award recognizes a young individual (student, postdoctoral fellow, researcher, entrepreneur, etc.) under the age of 35 who proposes an innovative and compelling evidence-based policy that will make a positive difference to Canadians. This award is designed not only to highlight innovative, evidence-driven policy ideas by policy students and young professionals, but also to encourage young people not currently studying, or working on, public policy to share their policy ideas.

Eligible recipients include all young Canadian residents under 35, regardless of their field of study or work.

The CSPC Trailblazer Awards recognize individuals who have positively and significantly impacted Science, Technology, and Innovation and Policy in Canada through leadership, vision, courage, and commitment in a novel and creative way. These individuals have been instrumental in boldly spearheading change via one or more transformative initiatives, while blazing a trail and inspiring others to follow in their footsteps. 

If you would like to be nominated for one of these awards, please contact the Office of Research (ahacquo1@lakeheadu.ca).

The Terry Fox New Frontiers Program Project Grants is a long‐standing program involving the best cancer researchers in Canada. This program supports Canadian research teams exploring new frontiers in cancer research (i.e., breakthrough and transformative biomedical, clinical and translational research which may form the basis for innovative cancer prevention, diagnosis and/or treatment).

The Terry Fox New Investigator Awards provide research operating grants to support future leaders as they develop their independent careers in cancer research. The award provides a single research grant of up to $525,000 for three years to investigators within the first five years of a first faculty-level appointment in Canada.