Research Western
Funding Opportunites - Research
Further details regarding this announcement can be found at:
http://bantingresearchfoundation.ca/grants/guidelines/
Sponsor/Award: BANTING RESEARCH FOUNDATION - DISCOVERY AWARD - 2017 SPRING COMPETITION

Grant Amount: $25,000 FOR ONE YEAR
Deadline: Dean's: Contact your Faculty Research Office for deadline details.
Internal: Mar 08, 2017
Sponsor's: Mar 15, 2017

Subject Areas: Medical
Description:

The Banting Research Foundation Discovery Award grants up to $25,000 to outstanding new investigators in all areas of health and biomedical research who are within the first three years of their independent appointment at a university or research institute in Canada. The intent is to provide seed funding so that applicants are able to gather pilot data to enhance their competitiveness for other sources of funding.

The maximum duration of the grant is one year, from July 1 to June 30. Extensions may be considered and must be requested in writing at least 30 days prior to the grant end date. Grants are paid quarterly within the funding year, starting July 1. Grants are paid to the comptroller of the sponsoring institution.

Application Details:

This competition is open to new investigators at any Canadian university or affiliated research institute who will be within the first three years of the date of their first career academic appointment at the application deadline date and have not been awarded by their institution more than $150,000 in start-up funding and have not been awarded more than $50,000 per annum in external operating funds at the application deadline date.

Complete the application, convert to a PDF, and submit by email then mail/courier the original. To properly identify your application, use this naming convention: LastnameFirstname_BRFApplication_2017.pdf Attachments may be included with application document or compiled into a single document and named LastnameFirstname_attachments_BRF_2017.pdf Email the application and attachments to banting.foundation@utoronto.ca Mail or courier the original signed application to: The Banting Research Foundation 6 Queen's Park Crescent West, Rm 10 Toronto ON M5S 3H2 Emailed documents must be received no later than March 15, 2017, 5:00 pm ET. Please mail or courier your original hard copy immediately after this; we must have the original in hand to consider your application.

INDIRECT COSTS ARE NOT ELIGIBLE

NOTE: All Letters of Intent and Full Applications must be processed through Research Development & Services for institutional approval. Requests for Institutional approvals should be received no less than 3 days prior to the posted Sponsor deadline. A ROLA Proposal (bearing applicant, Chair and Dean electronic approvals) is required for each submission.
Western Contacts: Kilianski,Louise

Sponsor Contacts:

BANTING.FOUNDATION@UTORONTO.CA
C/O FACULTY OF MEDICINE
MCMURRICH BUILDING
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
TORONTO, Ontario, Canada
416 9784251