2020-21 Training Graduate PhD Salary Award (TGP)
Well-being, Health and Biomedical Discovery
Deadlines
Academic Unit: Inquire with unit
Memorial Deadline: Monday 27th, April 2020
External Deadline: Thursday 30th, April 2020
Description
Online Research Grants Portal: Late February 2020
Full Application deadline: April 30, 2020, 5:00 PM EST
Notification of decision: Mid-August 2020
Funding start date: September 1, 2020
Salary awards are offered to graduate students who are undertaking full-time research training in an area of clear relevance to arthritis and the Arthritis Society’s new Strategic Plan 2020-2025: Accelerating Impact – Research Strategy which aims to identify research avenues that focus on areas of highest priority to patients and achieve the highest levels of scientific excellence and rigour. Applications must focus on innovative research efforts in the following priority areas.
- Pain research in:
- Improving our understanding of the underlying mechanisms of pain
- Translating basic science discoveries into practice
- Improving techniques to measure pain
- Developing new and more personalized treatment approaches
- Alternative approaches to pain management including research on medical cannabis from basic science, clinical, health services and policy perspectives
- Improving self-management tools and technology enables to help manage and communicate about pain
- Osteoarthritis (OA) research in:
- Improving our understanding of what cause different forms of OA, including the underlying biological mechanisms and how the disease progresses
- Understand sex and gender differences in patients with OA
- Developing new and more personalized treatment approaches
- Developing more effective self-management tools
- Improving health services and systems
- Reducing health disparities in vulnerable and hard-to-reach populations
- Inflammatory arthritis (IA) research in:
- Improving our understanding of what causes different forms of IA, including the underlaying biological mechanisms and how the disease progresses
- Developing new and more personalized treatment approaches
- Improving strategies to manage symptoms
- Developing more effective methods to support patient-physician communications
- Improving health services and systems
- Reducing health disparities in vulnerable and hard-to-reach populations
- Childhood arthritis research in:
- Improving our understanding of what causes childhood arthritis, how to detect it earlier, and diagnose it most effectively
- Developing new and more personalized therapies that are safe and effective
- Innovations to improve transitions in care as children navigate from pediatric to adult healthcare settings and improve unique quality of life issues through other life changes (e.g. education, employment)
- Work-related research in:
- Providing a strong evidence base to inform workplace policies and accommodations
- Ensuring that employees and employers have effective tools and resources to communicate how to manage chronic conditions in the workplace
- The prevention of workplace disability and the most effective accommodations
- Applications are to be completed and submitted by the candidate under the close supervision of the proposed supervisor. The supervisor must be an arthritis researcher who qualifies as a Principal Investigator as defined by the Arthritis Society. The training program must include actual involvement in conducting research. Students enrolled in programs oriented toward clinical training with no research thesis are NOT eligible for this award.Successful applicants will also be invited to participate in the Arthritis Society’s Trainee Workshop or attend the Canadian Arthritis Research Conference. The intent is to augment the young investigators’ training by providing a forum to share their research, gain knowledge on select topics such as consumer engagement in research, and provide networking and mentorship opportunities.
Additional information can be found here.