CIHR’s Institute of Aging

Description

The Summer Program in Aging (SPA) is the Institute of Aging’s (IA) flagship training program. It aims to provide graduate students and postdoctoral fellows involved in aging research with a program of advanced training that crosses disciplines, sectors, institutions, and geography. The program will bring together approximately 40 research trainees and numerous academic mentors to participate in interactive learning sessions. The focus of SPA 2021 is on…

Pre-announcement: Implementation Science Teams – Strengthening Pandemic Preparedness in Long-Term Care Funding Opportunity

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) is pleased to pre-announce the partnership and launch of the Implementation Science Teams – Strengthening Pandemic Preparedness in Long-Term Care Funding Opportunity. This initiative is being supported by the CIHR Institutes of Aging (IA), Circulatory and Respiratory Health (ICRH), Gender and Health (IGH), Health Services…

JPI MORE YEARS BETTER LIVES

Equality and Wellbeing across Generations

Call for Proposals

Major demographic change is taking place internationally, potentially increasing inequality and altering the relationship between generations. By providing an opportunity for European and Canadian transnational collaboration, this call seeks to enhance our understanding of the effects of demographic change on the contract between…

Launch of Operating Grant: COVID-19 Rapid Research Funding Opportunity (May 2020)

The Government of Canada is pleased to announce the launch of a new rapid research funding opportunity to continue to mobilize science to fight COVID-19. This funding opportunity is a partnership between the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, Alberta Innovates, the Saskatchewan Health Research…

A funding opportunity offered by: CIHR’s Institute of Health Services and Policy Research (IHSPR), with collaboration from the Institute of Aging (IA), Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health (ICRH), the Institute of Infection and Immunity (III), the Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes (INMD), the Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction (INMHA), the Institute of Population and Public Health (IPPH), and the Healthy Cities Research Initiative (HCRI), in…

The CIHR Institute of Population & Public Health is contributing funding towards four pools related to our strategic priority areas in the 2020 Health System Impact Fellowship call.

The Health System Impact (HSI) Fellowship (for doctoral trainees and post-doctoral fellows) provides highly-qualified doctoral trainees and post-doctoral fellows with a unique opportunity to apply their research and analytic talents to critical health challenges that are being addressed by health system and…

The Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) intends to release new data in 2019 in addition to previously released alphanumeric data from baseline and follow-up 1 (FUP1), baseline biomarkers related to clinical chemistry, genome-wide genotyping, and images from retinal scans, DEXA and carotid ultrasound.

This grant will support research projects that use the available CLSA data in order to better understand how (individually and in combination) the biological, medical, psychological, social,…

The Mitacs Globalink Research Internship (GRI) is now accepting faculty submissions for summer 2020. GRI pairs faculty in Canada with international undegrads for 12-week research projects from May to October. 

• All disciplines are eligible
• Top-ranked seniors undergrads travel from Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, SAR, India, Mexico, Tunisia, United Kingdom, and Ukraine
• Faculty can submit multiple projects and re-submit projects from previous years

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The CIHR Institute of Aging will provide funding for applications that are determined to be relevant to the following research priority areas described below:

• The life trajectory as a determinant of active, and satisfying aging;

• Adding life to the late years;

• Interventions appropriate to the complexity of older people’s state of health; and

• Health care and services that combine and integrate continuity, innovation and efficiency.

Funding Available
The maximum amount for…