Joint Canada-Israel Health Research Program (2018)
Well-being, Health and Biomedical Discovery
Deadlines
Academic Unit: Inquire with Unit
Memorial Deadline: Thursday 8th, February 2018
External Deadline: Tuesday 13th, February 2018
Description
The Joint Canada-Israel Health Research Program (the Program) seeks to support fundamental research at the cutting-edge of biomedical science. This fourth call for proposals is directed toward basic biomedical sciences in neurobiology, while building capacity and furthering the knowledge-base in low and middle income countries
The organizations funding this Program support the search for breakthroughs in health sciences that have the potential to bring about enduring changes across the globe, including in developing regions. The Program will support world-class research teams co-led by Canadian and Israeli investigators. The teams will be expected to integrate researchers from low and middle income countries (see Appendix A for list of eligible countries) to further their scientific capacity. In their capacity as collaborators or trainees, researchers in eligible countries will contribute to and benefit from their involvement in the Initiative.
Teams are encouraged to integrate sex and gender perspectives into their research, including where relevant Sex- and Gender-Based Analysis (SGBA). SGBA is an approach that systematically examines sex-based (biological) and gender-based (socio-cultural) differences, to promote rigorous science that is sensitive to sex and gender and has the potential to expand our understanding of health determinants for all people.
Research Areas
The fourth call of this program supports biomedical sciences with special emphasis on new frontiers in neurobiology. Potential topics may include, but are not limited to the following:
- molecular, genetic and epigenetic basis of neurological diseases
- developmental neurobiology
- neuroimmunology
- neuroendocrinology
- regenerative medicine in brain disease
- cellular and molecular basis of cognition
- modeling brain function
- imaging of neural processes
- brain-machine interface
- novel technologies in neurobiology