Research Western
Funding Opportunites - Research
Further details regarding this announcement can be found at:
http://www.cancer.ca/en/research/grants-and-awards/current-funding-opportunities/career-development-awards-in-prevention
Sponsor/Award: CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY RSRCH INST - CAREER DEVELOPMENT AWARDS IN PREVENTION - 2017 COMPETITION

Grant Amount: $75K / YR FOR 3 YEARS
Deadline: Dean's: Contact your Faculty Research Office for deadline details.
Internal: Mar 25, 2017
Sponsor's: Apr 01, 2017

Subject Areas:
Description:

Career Development Awards in Prevention have been created to establish or maintain the career development of post-doctoral fellows, clinical fellows or junior investigators in the area of cancer prevention/risk reduction research and community-based clinical research in cancer prevention by providing protected research time and research funds. Applications are invited from researchers in the fields of social/psychosocial and behavioural science, health policy, population health, health promotion, health services, cancer etiology, health economics and genetics aimed at improving cancer prevention.

This award is meant to primarily support the salary of the individual therefore at least $50,000 must be used for salary support, except where it exceeds the institution salary scale.

Application Details:

At the time of application, applicants for this award must be either a: postdoctoral or clinical fellow with at least one year of postdoctoral training completed, or Assistant professor within the first five years of their appointment. **Please review sponsor guidelines regarding institutional commitments for applicants.** Applicants must identify an accomplished investigator as a supervisor/mentor who will assist in the development and direction of the research program.

Your application will be submitted using EGrAMS. As this is primarily a salary award, if successful, the resulting research project will be managed at the Department level.

INDIRECT COSTS ARE NOT ELIGIBLE EXPENSES

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: Moxey,Laura
Kilianski,Louise
Hancock,Jennifer Anne

Sponsor Contacts:

CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY
10 Alcorn Avenue, Suite 200
Toronto, Ontario, Canada