Grants and Contributions

The Understanding Disease Prevention and Risk Factor Modification Catalyst Grants are expected to:

• increase our understanding of factors that enable individuals to adopt or overlook known disease risk modification strategies;
• expand the evidence and further understanding that can lead to future intervention studies in prevention; and
• develop a knowledge base upon which to nuance evidence-based policy to improve the prevention of manageable diseases.

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 CIHR Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes (INMD) will provide funding for an application determined to be relevant to the broad INMD mandate as described below:
o CIHR-INMD supports research to enhance health in relation to diet, digestion, excretion, and metabolism; and to address causes, prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment, support systems, and palliation for a wide range of conditions and problems associated with hormone, digestive system, kidney, and liver.
• These grants afford principal investigators an opportunity to resubmit their research proposal without the loss of momentum, staff or trainees.

The objective of this funding opportunity is to catalyze and support research efforts of Canadian researchers to use the available CLSA data in order to better understand how (individually and in combination) the biological, medical, psychological, social, lifestyle and/or economic aspects of people’s lives have an impact in both maintaining health and in the development of disease and disability as people age.

• The Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction (INMHA) will fund an application that is determined to be relevant to the mandate and research priority areas of CIHR-INMHA
o The Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction supports (INMHA) research to enhance mental health, neurological health, vision, hearing, and cognitive functioning and to reduce the burden of related disorders through prevention strategies, screening, diagnosis, treatment, support systems, and palliation.

The objectives of this funding opportunity are to:
• Support the development, validation, harmonization and optimization of standardized methods, protocols, data collection and reporting standards as well as statistical techniques to study sex as a variable in basic cellular, tissue, and animal research at critical developmental periods including old age across broad research domains;
• Advance our understanding of basic mechanisms that drive sex differences across the lifespan;
• Support capacity building in age- and sex-related scientific techniques and grow the science among the next generation of health researchers; and
• Promote knowledge dissemination of standardized methods, protocols and techniques.

The objective of this funding opportunity is to catalyze and support research efforts of Canadian researchers to use the available CLSA data in order to better understand how (individually and in combination) the biological, medical, psychological, social, lifestyle and/or economic aspects of people’s lives have an impact in both maintaining health and in the development of disease and disability as people age.

The Operating Grant: Methamphetamine and related psychostimulant use is expected to:

• Generate new knowledge around prevalence, incidence, and distribution of methamphetamine use in Canada
• Increase the uptake and application of synthesized knowledge in evidence-based decision-making, health care and/or health services policy and practice in this space
• Support partnerships between researchers and knowledge users to rapidly inform policies related to prevention, harm reduction, and treatment of methamphetamine use
• Address the pressing intervention-related evidence needs of knowledge users in this space
• Encourage implementation science approaches that consider sub-populations and/or the biological and social determinants of methamphetamine use

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.

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.