Canadian Frailty Network is pleased to announce a Catalyst Grant Competition focused on Medication Optimization in collaboration with the New Brunswick Health Research Foundation (NBHRF) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). 

The number of prescription medications used by Canadians increases as we age often leading to polypharmacy.  Polypharmacy increases the risk of adverse drug side-effects and drug-drug interactions, and as well as the development of drug-induced frailty…

CIHR Operating Grant : Secondary Data Analysis (Secondary Data Analysis – Dynamic Cohorts)

Important Dates:
Program Launch Date: 2017-07-06
Application Deadline: 2017-10-03
Anticipated Notice of Decision: 2018-02-28
Funding Start Date: 2018-03-01

CIHR and the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) have partnered to create a dynamic cohort of complex, high system users. The Dynamic Cohort was developed using CIHI’s in-house datasets to facilitate cross-jurisdictional research.…

New Funding Opportunity
 CIHR’s SPOR Innovative Clinical Trials – Multi-Year Operating Grant

Six multi-year operating grants of up to $1.5 million each over four years are available from CHIR’s Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) to build capacity in innovative clinical trials: CIHR's SPOR Innovative Clinical Trial Multi-Year Grant (2017)

CIHR LOI Deadline: Sept 12, 2017

Alberta Innovates will consider contributing towards matching funds for applications either led by an…

Overview:

1) Program related information
    National research platform holds answers to health aging

2) Funding opportunities
    Funding opportunities posted between June 27 and July 26, 2017 by CIHR and its partners

3) Application and funding policies
    Changes to paid parental leave for students and postdoctoral fellow research trainees

4) Upcoming webinars
    a) Webinars on the Foundation Grant: 2017-2018 Application
    b) Webinars on the Project Grant: Fall 2017 application

• Expected launch date: August 2017
• Expected application deadline: November 2017
• Funding start date: March 2018

Overview

Through this Call for Concepts, the Labour Program is launching the second round of the Workplace Opportunities: Removing Barriers to Equity (Workplace Opportunities) grant and contribution program. Workplace Opportunities is designed to support employers subject to the Employment Equity Act (the Act) in their efforts to improve designated group representation in areas of low representation through partnerships and industry-tailored strategies.

Through a competitive process,…

CIHR Training Modernization Post-doctoral Health System Impact Fellowship

The University of Manitoba (located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) is now accepting applications for a 14-month Postdoctoral Fellowship year, funded by the CIHR Training Modernization Start-up Grant in Health Services and Policy Research. The fellowship is being offered in partnership between the University of Manitoba Max Rady College of Medicine; and Manitoba Health, Seniors and Active Living (MHSAL). University of…

CIHR has decided to delay the Project Grant submission deadline from June to September 15.

The official announcement from CIHR is below:

Announcement: Delay of next Project Grant Competition

May 5, 2017

Dear Colleagues,

As you know, we have recently completed Stage 2 of peer review for the current Project Grant Competition. This experience has confirmed that the current reformed project grant competition process is unsustainable on many levels. As a consequence, it is clear that…