MONTREAL, October 6, 2023 – The Network is pleased to announce the launch of three Fall 2023 funding competitions:
- The Fall 2023 Fellowship Awards
- The Fall 2023 Research Start-up Awards
- The 2023 Pilot Study Funding Opportunity
Fellowship Awards
The purpose of the Research Training Awards is to provide financial support for highly qualified, promising fellows to allow them to pursue research training in thromboembolism at a Canadian Centre. CanVECTOR's Fellowship Awards are training awards geared towards MDs aiming to become clinician scientists and investigators in venous thromboembolism (VTE).
Quick Facts
- Fellowship winners may receive a maximum of $50,000 (CAD).
- Priority for fellowship awards will be given to new applicants. If additional funding is available, renewal applications will be invited and considered in the subsequent competition.
- Administered by CanVECTOR's Training, Mentoring, & Early Career Development Platform.
- Application deadline: Monday, November 20, 2023.
Application Submissions
For competition details, please see the Application Instructions.The application form & attachment of all required documents must be submitted online by Monday, November 20, 2023 at 11:59 PM. Inquiries can be addressed at info@canvector.ca.
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Research Start-up Awards
The purpose of the Research Start-up Awards is to help trainees achieve their research objectives through start-up operating funds for a research project or preliminary / pilot work to strengthen their research, including services, materials, or supplies.
This funding is not intended to provide salary support for trainees and the requested funds must not overlap with funding that’s available from other sources. Research start-up funding is not intended to provide support for travel relating to any academic experiences (e.g., presentation of research work at a scientific conference).
Quick Facts
- Amount: Up to $2,500 (CAD)
- Eligible applicants must be trainees (medical student, resident, graduate student, fellow) conducting research under the supervision of a CanVECTOR member. Applicants are encouraged to apply for membership when applying.
- Priority will be given to applicants who have not received CanVECTOR funding.
- Application deadline: Monday, November 20, 2023.
Application Submissions
For competition details, please see the Application Instructions.
The application form & attachment of all required documents must be submitted online by Monday, November 20, 2023 at 11:59 PM. Inquiries can be addressed at info@canvector.ca.
Pilot Study Funding Opportunity
The purpose of this funding opportunity is to build research capacity related to VTE and to enable CanVECTOR scientists to collect pilot data that will inform the conduct of larger multicentre clinical trials and increase the ability to attract external peer-reviewed funding.
Quick Facts
- A total of $100,000 is available to fund one or more pilot studies.
- Studies are eligible if they are designed to assess the feasibility of a planned full-scale (definitive) randomized controlled trial (RCT) that will be conducted at multiple CanVECTOR sites. Although pilot studies designed to inform definitive RCTs commonly use a randomized design that reflects the full-scale design (or parts or it) on a smaller scale, non-randomized studies are eligible and applicants are encouraged to justify the choice of a non-randomized study design.
- The research focus is to be related to prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of venous thromboembolism or its long-term effects.
- Pilot studies must include at least two CanVECTOR sites.
- The pilot study must involve prospective recruitment of participants.
- The project team for the pilot study will include an investigator triad (senior investigator, an early or mid-career investigator, and a thrombosis fellow or trainee). It is expected that the team will include a methods expert and a patient partner (or patient engagement strategy).
- At least one of the investigators in the triad must be a CanVECTOR member.
- Application deadline: Monday, November 20, 2023.
Application Details
For information about funding, eligibility, evaluation criteria, and application requirements, please see the competition Call for Applications & Application Form.
The Application form & attachment of all required documents must be submitted online by Monday, November 20, 2023 at 11:59 PM. Inquiries can be addressed to Nicole Langlois, Manager of Clinical Research, at info@canvector.ca.