The Cancer Research Society (CRS), with the Canadian Cancer Society (CCS) and the Terry Fox Research Institute (TFRI), are launching a new funding opportunity dedicated entirely to investigator-initiated oncology clinical trials in Canada. With partners – the Lotte & John Hecht Memorial Foundation, Génome Québec, Kindred Foundation and Childhood Cancer Canada – this program aims to enable… Read more »
The Cancer Research Society (CRS), with the Canadian Cancer Society (CCS) and the Terry Fox Research Institute (TFRI), are launching a new funding opportunity dedicated entirely to investigator-initiated oncology clinical trials in Canada. With partners – the Lotte & John Hecht Memorial Foundation, Génome Québec, Kindred Foundation and Childhood Cancer Canada – this program aims to enable… Read more »
This program aims to support graduate students who are pursuing a doctoral degree in cancer-related research at a Canadian institution. The Doctoral Research Award (DRA) provides funding of $35,000 per year over 2 years, totaling $70,000. Applications focused on research aimed at better understanding and/or addressing the underlying causes, pathophysiology, and brain-related health outcomes of brain cancer may be co-funded by Brain Canada. Click here to view the… Read more »
The Operating Grant program from the Cancer Research Society funds some of the most promising research projects in Canada. It supports researchers whose work advances essential knowledge to better prevent, detect, and treat all types of cancer. Selected through a rigorous peer review process, these projects help accelerate the discovery of concrete and innovative solutions to… Read more »
The impetus for the RISE competition (Research Impact in Survivorship and Engagement) is for individuals with lived experience of ovarian cancer (either as a patient or caregiver), to define national priorities for ovarian cancer survivorship research and care. These priorities – and how a patient’s quality of life throughout and beyond treatment is defined in… Read more »
Brain Canada is teaming up with the Cancer Research Society (CRS) and the Kindred Foundation to launch the 2025 Translational Research Grants in Brain Cancer. A national program to fund translational research that advances effective translation and application of knowledge of brain cancer across the expanse of pre-clinical, clinical and health services delivery domains to… Read more »
Brain Canada is teaming up with the Cancer Research Society (CRS) and the Kindred Foundation to launch the 2025 Translational Research Grants in Brain Cancer. A national program to fund translational research that advances effective translation and application of knowledge of brain cancer across the expanse of pre-clinical, clinical and health services delivery domains to… Read more »
The Doctoral Research Award (DRA) is an annual program open to PhD level trainees conducting their research at an eligible Canadian academic institution. This program aims to support graduate students who are pursuing a doctoral degree in cancer-related research. CIHR-ICR is partnering with CRS to co-fund DRA awards. Application deadline: April 23, 2024 Learn more.
The Next Generation of Scientists Award (NGS) is an innovative two-pronged award, consisting of a one-year postdoctoral fellowship followed by two years of operating grant funding. Part 1: Postdoctoral Salary Award – $50,000 for 1 year The one-year postdoctoral salary award is to enable talented postdoctoral trainees to secure a faculty position in an eligible Canadian… Read more »
The Defeating Embryonal Cancer in Young People Together (DECRYPT) Research Grant is designed to bolster the current childhood embryonal cancer landscape by providing funding for a research project that will address an unmet need for these pediatric brain cancers. This grant is possible thanks to the collaborative effort and shared values of several organizations: Kindred Foundation, Cancer… Read more »