Research Western
Funding Opportunites - Research
Further details regarding this announcement can be found at:
http://www.psifoundation.org/ForApplicants/PSI%20Funding%20Guidelines%20-%20New%20Investigator%20Grant%20October%202014
Sponsor/Award: PHYSICIANS SERVICES INC FOUNDATION - NEW INVESTIGATOR GRANT - 2014 FALL COMPETITION

Grant Amount: $250,000 OVER THREE YEARS
Deadline: Dean's: Contact your Faculty Research Office for deadline details.
Internal: Dec 24, 2014
Sponsor's: Dec 31, 2014

Subject Areas:
Description:

The PSI New Investigator Grant will fund Clinical Research, Medical Education Research and Health Systems Research for a investigators who are College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario licensed MD with an academic appointment and therefore eligible to apply for her/his own research grants as an independent investigator and within five (5) years of their first academic appointment. --OR -- A fellow who is a College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario licensed MD and who has a supervising co-Principal Investigator for the research project. The supervising co-Principal Investigator must have an academic appointment and will therefore provide the necessary research supervision and infrastructure (including administering the grant at their sponsoring institution). Fellows must include with their application a letter of support from this supervising co-Principal Investigator.

For the New Investigator Grant, the PSI requires two letters of support: one from the Research Mentor, and one form the Department/Division Head. Please see guidelines for details.

Application Details: The PSI Foundation no longer has deadlines. You may submit an application at any time. All requests for funding must be submitted using PSI's application package. PSI`s internal review committee will consider your application at its next meeting following the peer review process. You will receive a decision within 6 months. The application forms are posted on the website at www.psifoundation.org.Email a PDF file format attachment of the complete application to psif@psifoundation.org. The file attachment must not be a scanned copy. Please note the file attachment in PDF format must be less than 5 MB in size. PSI no longer requires a hard copy of the application; therefore, please include all signatures in the PDF. You may need to email the signature page separately, if dictated by file size.
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:

Sponsor Contacts:

PSIF@PSIFOUNDATION.ORG
5160 YONGE STREET
SUITE 1006
NORTH YORK, Ontario, Canada
416 226-6323