CIHR Team Grant : Bringing Biology to Cancer Prevention – Registration
Well-being, Health and Biomedical Discovery
Deadlines
Academic Unit: inquire with unit
Memorial Deadline: RIS review not required for registration
External Deadline: Tuesday 1st, April 2025
Description
Webinar
CIHR will be hosting webinar(s) to support participants with the requirements of this funding opportunity and to answer questions. To find out more information, visit the Webinars page.
Cancer remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Approximately 2 in 5 Canadians will be diagnosed with cancer during their lifetime, and 1 in 4 will die of their disease.1 An estimated 247,100 Canadians are expected to be diagnosed with cancer in 2024, with 88,100 deaths.2 Cancer poses a significant burden on both the people affected and the healthcare system. From a societal perspective, the economic burden of cancer in Canada is substantial – cancer-related costs were estimated to be CA$26.2 billion in 2021, with 30% being borne by patients and their families.3
Cancer is a complex and constantly evolving disease defined by a multitude of cancer types, each characterized by unique biological mechanisms linking host (e.g., sex, age, germline mutations, microbiome), lifestyle, environmental, social (e.g., gender, income, education, employment, race, ethnicity, culture, place) and other intersecting factors that contribute to cancer development and progression. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that between 30%-50% of cancer deaths are related to modifiable risk factors, suggesting that implementing evidence-based prevention strategies could be impactful in reducing cancer incidence and burden on individuals, families, and communities.4
To date, investment in cancer prevention research in Canada has been relatively limited.5 As such, enhancing support for research focused on cancer prevention and early detection in Canada is essential to generate evidence that will drive the development of improved diagnostic tools, precision approaches to cancer screening, and more effective risk reduction measures, which will help inform public health efforts that will promote uptake of these strategies. By accelerating research in this area, we can work towards reducing cancer incidence and significantly altering the trajectory of this disease for many individuals across Canada and beyond.
Purpose
The Team Grants: Bringing Biology to Cancer Prevention aims to unite interdisciplinary research teams to advance the biological and mechanistic understanding of cancer etiology, genesis, and risk, linked with host, lifestyle, environmental, social, and other factors, to identify new targets and approaches for cancer prevention, risk reduction, and early detection. Collaborations between traditional cancer prevention researchers (e.g., population and public health researchers, epidemiologists, social scientists) and those from other disciplines (e.g., biologists, immunologists, geneticists, drug developers) or who are new to the field are strongly encouraged. Collectively, these research teams will develop and disseminate evidence-based solutions to enable improvements in cancer prevention, risk reduction, and early detection at the individual and/or population-level.
A Cancer Data and Bio-Resource Hub funding opportunity may be launched in the future to fund an interdisciplinary research team that will support collaboration, data management and sharing, sharing of biosamples, protocols, and tools, as well as open science approaches across the funded teams within this current funding opportunity. Research teams that are funded through this current funding opportunity will be strongly encouraged to collaborate with the Cancer Data and Bio-Resource Hub.
See ResearchNet for more information.
| Competition | 202506BBC |
|---|---|
| Registration Deadline | 2025-04-01 |
| Application Deadline | 2025-06-19 |