Breathing as One – Boehringer Ingelheim Canada/CIHR-ICRH: COPD Catalyst Grant – Application
Well-being, Health and Biomedical Discovery
Deadlines
Academic Unit: Inquire with your unit
Memorial Deadline: Friday 15th, January 2021
External Deadline: Friday 22nd, January 2021
Description
SIRI will be offering support with application development for this opportunity. Prospective applicants are encouraged to contact Jennifer Stevens (v5js@mun.ca) early during the development process to discuss the services available to them.
The Breathing as One – Boehringer Ingelheim Canada/CIHR-ICRH: COPD Catalyst Grant competition promotes innovative research related to the treatment/quality of life, mechanism of disease, and health care services for COPD. Catalyst grants are scalable research studies that can be pilot studies, feasibility studies, translational studies, and novel and innovative approaches.
Applicants should be creative and think broadly. To this end, submissions to this grant competition should only be made for new project ideas and not the continuation of an existing project.
Even though your long-term goals for the project may extend beyond the means and timeline of this grant, within one year, the results of the catalyst projects should enable the development of funding proposals that are eligible for submission to national or international peer-reviewed competitions.
Funding Available
Funding for this competition has been provided by a donation from Boehringer Ingelheim Canada to The Lung Association’s Breathing as One campaign for lung research and a partnership with the CIHR–ICRH. Boehringer Ingelheim Canada is not involved with adjudication or the funding decisions for this competition.
The partnership with Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)-Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health (ICRH) increased the total funding amount available for the 2020 competition to $120,000. The maximum amount per grant is $30,000. The funding is for one year and is non-renewable.
Of this $120,000:
- $60,000 is available to fund 2 grants for nominated principal applicants who are Early Career Investigators (ECIs). An ECI is defined as a researcher who has held an independent research appointment for a period of 0 to 60 months at the competition deadline date. All those who held ECI status as of March 1, 2020—or who secured their first academic appointment after this date—will have their status extended by one year.
- Any remaining funds will be applied to the next highest ranked application.
Additional information can be found here.