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Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
Research Update
June 23, 2003

In this issue:

New Strategic Funding Opportunities through the HSF Research Fund

Through the Heart and Stroke Foundation Research Fund, the Foundation has joined with the CIHR and other organizations to launch a series of new strategic funding opportunities. The following six initiatives have just been launched. Through these initiatives, the HSF will invest over $6 million over the next 5 years.

1. Palliative and End of Life Care
2. Regenerative Medicine and Nanomedicine: Innovative Approaches in Health Research
3. Advancing Science to Reduce Tobacco Abuse and Nicotine Addiction
4. Sex and Gender Determinants of Circulatory and Respiratory Disease
5. Reducing Health Disparities & Promoting Equity for Vulnerable Populations
6. Obesity and Healthy Body Weight (New Emerging Teams and Planning Grants)
7. Vascular Health and Dementia (Operating Grants)

Please refer to the specific Requests for Applications (RFAs) for details on submission dates and eligibility criteria. Please visit the CIHR web site at http://www.cihr.ca for additional funding opportunities.

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1.  Palliative and End of Life Care

   New Emerging Team (NET) Grants (Canadian Breast Cancer Research Initiative, IA, ICR, ICRH, IGH, IG, IHSPR, IHDCYH, INMHA, Health Canada, Heart and Stroke Foundation, National Ovarian Cancer Association)
   Letter of Intent Deadline: September 1, 2003; Application Deadline: February 1, 2004.

   New Emerging Team grants are intended to support the creation or development of teams comprised of investigators undertaking collaborative, multidisciplinary research. The program is designed to promote the formation of new research teams or the growth of small existing teams of researchers in the area of palliative and end of life care. The HSF and the Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health (ICRH) are collaborating with other organizations in this initiative to support applications addressing research communication and decision making strategies related to palliative and end of life care - with particular emphasis on congestive heart failure, stroke and chronic obstructive pulmonary disorders. However, all relevant applications will be considered.

2.  Regenerative Medicine and Nanomedicine: Innovative Approaches in Health Research

   New Emerging Team Grant Program
   Letter of Intent Deadline: November 1, 2003; Application Deadline: May 1, 2004

   New Emerging Team grants are intended to support the creation or development of teams comprised of investigators undertaking collaborative, multidisciplinary research. The program is intended to promote the formation of new and previously nonexistent research teams or the growth of small existing teams of researchers in the areas of Nanomedicine, Stem Cells, and Tissue Engineering.

   Interdisciplinary Capacity Enhancement Grant Program
   Letter of Intent Deadline: November 1, 2003; Application Deadline: May 1, 2004

   Interdisciplinary Capacity Enhancement (ICE) Team grants are intended to provide support for new or existing groups conducting multi-disciplinary research on themes that align with this strategic initiative in the areas of Nanomedicine, Stem Cells, and Tissue Engineering. The grants will enable teams to build capacity and add expertise to their core capacities and develop strategies for knowledge translation.

3.  Advancing Science to Reduce Tobacco Abuse and Nicotine Addiction

   Interdisciplinary Capacity Enhancement Grant Program (CTCRI, CIHR, NCIC, CCS, HSF, Health Canada)
   Letter of Intent Deadline: September 15, 2003; Application Deadline: April 1, 2004

   A New partnership of CIHR, NCIC and CCS, HSFC, and Health Canada, led by the CTCRI, is pleased to offer Interdisciplinary Capacity Enhancement (ICE) Team grants in conjunction with the strategic initiative announcement, "Advancing the Science to Reduce Tobacco Abuse and Nicotine Addiction". ICE team grants are intended to provide support for new or existing groups who can demonstrate that they are committed to engendering a trans-disciplinary research culture and to attracting into, engaging and mentoring junior researchers (faculty and post-doctoral fellows not otherwise funded) or established researchers who have not worked extensively in health research in the past, within teams or networks working on themes that align with this strategic initiative in the areas of Tobacco Abuse and Nicotine Addiction.

4.  Sex and Gender Determinants of Circulatory and Respiratory Health

   Sex and Gender Determinants of Circulatory and Respiratory Health (IGH, ICRH, Heart and Stroke Foundation).
   Letter of Intent Deadline: September 1, 2003; Application Deadline: February 1, 2004

   The purpose of this RFA is to build capacity among teams of investigators who are poised to conduct research and translate new knowledge regarding gender and sex determinants of circulatory and respiratory health. The funding associated with this RFA, in addition to supporting excellent research, is intended to enhance the capacity of groups of researchers to: (a) address key strategic research themes through the creation of strong intra- and inter-institution mentoring arrangements, and (b) develop team strategies for knowledge translation. This research capacity-building program will help forge multidisciplinary teams around any of the three strategic research themes (see Background section) and attract researchers from relevant disciplines including those who have not been primarily or previously involved in health research.

5.  Reducing Health Disparities & Promoting Equity for Vulnerable Populations

   Research Program Development Grants (CIHR, Health Canada, National Secretariat on Homelessness, The Heart and Stroke Foundation)
   Registration Deadline: August 15, 2003; Application Deadline: September 15, 2003

   This program tool will build research capacity by enabling interdisciplinary groups of researchers in health and other sectors to develop programs of research that describe, investigate and ultimately reduce health disparities. Although there is no current mechanism that would facilitate the transition from this development phase into a long-term program of research; there are opportunities within scientific councils (e.g. CIHR, which will permit researchers to pursue subsequent opportunities to seek funding for components of their programs. Teams of researchers are encouraged to apply for future competitions (e.g. CIHR Open Competitions) in order to obtain longer-term funding.

   Pilot Project Grants (CIHR, Health Canada, National Secretariat on Homelessness, The Heart and Stroke Foundation)
   Registration Deadline: August 15, 2003; Application Deadline: September 15, 2003

   Pilot Project Grants are intended to build research capacity by supporting innovative, high risk, pilot or feasibility research focused on reducing health disparities and promoting equity for vulnerable populations. Grants will allow investigators with novel ideas and observations to conduct pilot studies and/or gather evidence necessary to determine the viability of new research directions. Applicants who conduct successful pilot projects are encouraged to continue their research by applying to regular funding opportunities such as, Investigator-Initiated Open Competitions.

   http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/services/15986.shtml

6.  Obesity and Healthy Body Weight(Planning Grants and New Emerging Teams)

   Planning and Development Grant - Environmental Approaches to Physical Activity, Healthy Eating, and Healthy Body Weight (INMD, IMHA, HSF)
   Registration Deadline: October 15, 2003; Application Deadline: November 1, 2003

   The purpose of this Request for Applications (RFA) is to provide opportunities for the support of planning and/or development activities that normally precede complex, multi-stakeholder research initiatives addressing physical activity and healthy eating in relation to healthy body weights.

   New Emerging Team (NET) Grants (INMD, HSF)
   Letter of Intent Deadline: September 1, 2003; Application Deadline: February 1, 2004

   New Emerging Team grants are intended to support the creation or development of teams of investigators undertaking collaborative, multidisciplinary research. The program is intended to promote the formation of new previously nonexistent research teams or the growth of small existing teams of researchers undertaking research relevant to the strategic initiative Excellence, Innovation and Advancement in the Study of Obesity and Healthy Body Weight.

   Target Obesity - Personnel Awards
   Application Deadline: August 29, 2003 for New Investigators, October 31, 2003 for Doctoral Research Awards and Postdoctoral Fellows.

   To encourage more students, recent graduates and postgraduates, including health professionals, such as physicians, nurses, dietitians, exercise physiologists, to train in the area of obesity research, the Heart and Stroke Foundation and the CIHR Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes are collaborating to support personnel awards (Doctoral Research Awards, Postdoctoral Fellowships and New Investigator Awards).

7. Vascular Health and Dementia

   The Heart and Stroke Foundation and the Alzheimer Society of Canada, together with the CIHR Institute of Aging, the CIHR Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction, supported by fund/Rx&D Research Program and Pfizer Canada Inc. are pleased to announce a new funding opportunity in the area of Vascular Health and Dementia to support research operating grants in vascular health, vascular dementia, Alzheimer disease and related dementias.

   Letters of Intent due July 15, 2003
   Full proposals are due October 17, 2003

Sincerely,

Alison M. Stephen, PhD
Director, Research
Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada

Jennifer Gee Campbell
Manager, Research
Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada

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