Research News and Funding Information
Here are some useful research information and deadlines. If you would like to submit a news item for our researchers, please send it to domreas@ualberta.ca.
News and information
- DoM Internal Review for CIHR Project Grant Spring 2024 Competition
Researchers who would like to apply to this competition should notify the DoM Office of Research of their intent to apply via email to Jay Babiak, Grants Facilitator, no later than Friday, December 8. For more information. - Knowledge mobilization plans for grant applications: learn from the experts (Dec. 13). Knowledge mobilization (KMb) has become an important aspect of research grant applications. The Research Partner Network is pleased to host the virtual KMb workshop to help researchers develop a strong KMb plan. Learn from a knowledge mobilizer from Research Impact Canada, three U of A's Tri-Agency review committee members and an Indigenous researcher on making an impact with your KMb plan.
- U of A's Research Computing group provides access to digital research systems, services, and support for those research projects which need resources beyond what a phone, tablet, laptop, or desktop can provide. They also provide grant advice on digital research and digital research communities of interest. Consultations can be arranged by emailing research.support@ualberta.ca.
- Subscribe to the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry Research Bulletin
For in-depth information on research updates and resources, funding opportunities, clinical research updates, trainee updates, research awards, seminars and events, and more. - New process for adding a new supplier and updating supplier records. Learn more.
- Looking for a student to work on a research project? The Undergraduate Research Initiative can help with advertising the opportunity.
- ORCID: Open Researcher and Contributor ID - connects research and researchers
- View detailed instructions on how to register for an ORCID ID
- View detailed instructions on how to register for an ORCID ID
Sources for Funding Opportunities:
- U of A Research Administrative Services (RAS) Funding Opportunities Database
- U of A RAS Funding Deadlines Calendar
- FoMD Sponsor Listing (funding opportunities by specialty)
Funding and Award deadlines
For Principal Investigators and For Trainees
For Principal Investigators
Sponsor: Dec 5
The initiative is designed to stimulate both creative individual scientists and multi-investigator teams to approach healthy and adverse pregnancy outcomes using creative basic and translational scientific research methods.
RSO: Mar 13
Sponsor: Mar 20
This Program encourages innovative, unorthodox, and exploratory research that may be in the early and conceptual stages of project development but has potential for significant impact on our understanding of the brain.
Sponsor: Nov 30
Previous date:
RSO: November 23
The Canadian Hemophilia Society invites applicants to apply for basic scientific research grants in fields relevant to hemophilia A and B, von Willebrand disease, rare factor deficiencies, platelet function disorders (and platelet pathophysiology) and other congenital and acquired bleeding disorders.
Previous date:
RSO: November 23
The Canadian Hemophilia Society – Novo Nordisk Canada Psychosocial Research Program was created to engage professionals/graduate students from the allied health disciplines (i.e., Nursing, Physiotherapy, and Social Work) in research activities addressed to understanding the psychosocial impact of hemophilia and other inherited bleeding disorders and to improve the quality of life of persons and families whose lives are affected by these disorders.
RSO: Apr 11
Sponsor: Apr 18
Two new research networks in Canada will be established, each receiving $5M in funding over five years, to better understand women’s risk factors for heart and brain conditions and to improve diagnosis and treatment of conditions more common among women or less well studied.
DoM Internal Review for CIHR Project Grant Spring 2024 Competition
Researchers who will be (or are considering) applying to this competition should notify the DoM Office of Research of their intent to apply via email to Jay Babiak, Grants Facilitator, no later than Friday, December 1st, 2023.
Place in the subject line: Notice of Intent to Apply CIHR Project Grant Spring 2024_{Your Name}.
For more information.
Sponsor: Dec 4
Previous Date:
RSO: Nov 27
The ACG Clinical Research Awards program is to fund innovative patient-oriented research. While research that explores mechanisms of human disease is highly encouraged, the research projects should be translational in nature, with direct applicability to clinical care. Award is $50,000 for one year.
Sponsor: Dec 4
Previous Date:
RSO: Nov 27
To assist promising clinical researchers in developing research careers that have a direct bearing on clinical gastrointestinal practice. This includes assistance to a junior faculty investigator to ensure that a major portion of the investigator's time is protected for research. This grant is designed to support research that is principally focused on digestive or liver diseases. Award is $450,000 for three years.
RSO: March 21
Sponsor: Mar 28
A major emphasis in the SCOR grant program is on clinical translation of scientific results. Ideally, a SCOR application will propose a combination of basic and translational laboratory research that will lead to eventual clinical translation.
This award recognizes an FoMD faculty member (or a group of FoMD members) who has successfully planned and implemented a significant curricular innovation. Open to all levels of GFT, Clinical faculty members, and FSO faculty members and may be seen as a part of the pathway to national or international recognition.
This award recognizes the achievements of an individual who has made a major and long-term contribution to the educational leadership and scholarship in the FoMD.
RSO: Jan 3
Sponsor: Jan 10
This funding by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society supports research that addresses gaps in our knowledge of the underlying biology of CNS remyelination in MS, the factors or processes that modulate this process, and methods to measure remyelination. Additionally, research into neuroprotective mechanisms with the potential to prolong neuronal viability for remyelination is encouraged. Funding is up to $1M USD for up to 3 years.
RSO: Feb 26
Sponsor: Mar 4
Previous date:
Pre-application: Sept 29
LLS Discovery Grant Program
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) Discovery Grant Program is a research award program designed to encourage basic research, technological innovation, and informatics pipeline development. Also known as the Blood Cancer Discoveries Grant Program, it hopes to gain better understanding of blood cancer disease mechanisms, to help develop improved methods for detecting and monitoring cancer progression, and to help identify novel therapeutic targets.
Pre-application: Mar 8
RSO: Mar 29
Sponsor: Apr 5
CIORA is a unique granting organization committed to being a catalyst for improving the care of Canadians living with all rheumatic diseases. CIORA's grant program supports sustainable projects related to rheumatic diseases that promote: awareness/advocacy/education; early access for rheumatic disease patients; and multidisciplinary care teams.
RSO: Aug 29, 2024
Sponsor: Sept 5, 2024
Previous dates:
RAS: Oct 17
Pre-application: Oct 24
Tri-Agency Institutional Programs Secretariat: New Frontiers in Research Fund - Transformation Competition
The objective of the Transformation stream is to support large-scale, Canadian-led interdisciplinary research projects that address a major challenge with the potential to realize real and lasting change. The challenge may be fundamental, leading to a scientific breakthrough, or applied, with a social, economic, environmental or health impact. Projects are expected to be world-leading, drawing on global research expertise, when relevant.
Sponsor: Nov 15
Previous dates:
RSO: November 8
Two awards are being offered and will be awarded based on scientific merit and relevance to building knowledge, innovation or advancement of clinical practice that ultimately may reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease.
China Scholarship Council (CSC) Scholarship for PhD and Visiting PhD students & Postdoctoral Fellows
Update: Principal investigators may not be required to pay the difference between CSC and the required funding for a PDF. This does not apply to PhD students and PhD Visitors.
If you are interested in recruiting a CSC PhD and/or PDF candidate, email Jay Babiak, Grants Facilitator, Department of Medicine, with the following:
- Full Name and Division
- Preference of Trainee: PhD, PDF or both
- Area of Research
- Source of research funding to cover minimum stipend rates and potential additional costs for CSC trainees
CSC Information for Professors and CSC Information for Prospective Students.
Sponsor: Nov 30
The Canadian Hemophilia Society will award $6,000 stipends to interested Canadian Medical or Science students to work for up to 4 months during the Summer of 2024 on a research project relevant to inherited bleeding disorders.
The Canadian Hemophilia Society will award $6,000 stipends to interested Canadian Medical or Science students to work for up to 4 months during the Summer of 2024 on a research project relevant to inherited bleeding disorders.
RSO: Mar 22, 2024
Sponsor: Mar 29
Previous dates:
LOI Sponsor: Nov 17
A program to support innovative projects designed to benefit patients of the Kaye Edmonton Clinic and the University of Alberta Hospital.