Grants and Contributions

This funding opportunity is expected to:

• Advance knowledge through the analysis of existing cohorts, data platforms and/or administrative datasets specific to one of the research areas above.

Through the Institute's programs, researchers address a wide range of health concerns related to infection and immunity including disease mechanisms, disease prevention and treatment, and health promotion through public policy.

This funding opportunity is expected to:

• Advance knowledge through the analysis of existing cohorts, data platforms and/or administrative datasets specific to one of the research areas above.

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to:
1.Provide women’s health researchers and trainees with operating funds to perform clinical research;
2.Support capacity building in women’s health among the next generation of health researchers; and
3.Start positioning Canada as a leader in women’s health research.

The “Catalyst Grant: Addressing Musculoskeletal Conditions and Arthritis in Canadians” is expected to:

• Support original, high quality projects that have the potential to generate innovative research, research tools, techniques, devices, inventions, or methods that will translate into a clinical or health services improvement for Canadians within 5-7 years;
• Facilitate team formation and build patient-oriented research capacity by encouraging partnerships amongst patients, patient communities, patient organizations and health charities, researchers, health care professionals and health system decision makers or policy makers;
• Generate preliminary observations, data or knowledge to stimulate research in areas where there is a substantial burden of disease in musculoskeletal conditions and arthritis in Canada, as identified by the respective communities.

This funding opportunity is expected to:
•Catalyze patient-oriented research aligned with the SPOR Patient Engagement Framework and SPOR Capacity Development Framework by:
¿Developing partnerships amongst patients and patient communities, researchers, health care professionals and health system decision-makers or policy-makers;
¿Mobilizing the above partnerships to develop and conduct a patient-oriented research project or projects; and,
¿Informing future applications for more comprehensive patient-oriented research grants.

Examples of activities that might be conducted under this request for applications are (but are not restricted to):
•Facilitation of dialogue between communities and researchers in order to establish research partnerships;
•Workshops to design a research project and/or develop a proposal for a future CBR operating grant;
•Planning and execution of pilot projects or feasibility studies to generate preliminary data, proof of concept; and/or
•Development and/or validation of new interventions, tools, methodologies, protocols, theoretical models or frameworks.

For examples, applicants can visit CIHR's Funding Decisions web site to search for projects previously funded under a CIHR HIV/AIDS CBR Catalyst Grant.

The CIHR Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health (ICRH) and the Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction (INMHA) in partnership with the Canadian Sleep Society (CSS), will provide funding for applications that are determined to be relevant to the research priority area as described below.

Biomedical research in sleep and/or circadian rhythms that align to the priorities of CIHR-ICRH, CIHR-INMHA, and/or CSS.
Applications that address health equity, sex and gender and/or Indigenous health and wellness issues are encouraged

This funding opportunity is expected to:
•Catalyze patient-oriented research aligned with the SPOR Patient Engagement Framework and SPOR Capacity Development Framework by:
¿Developing partnerships amongst patients and patient communities, researchers, health care professionals and health system decision-makers or policy-makers;
¿Mobilizing the above partnerships to develop and conduct a patient-oriented research project or projects; and,
¿Informing future applications for more comprehensive patient-oriented research grants.

To provide recognition and funding to academic researchers; to provide a reliable supply of highly skilled and qualified researchers.