CanVECTOR in the News

CanVECTOR has awarded two trainees with Research Fellowship Awards in the Fall 2020 Research Training Awards competition. A total of $90,000 (CAD) in funding was granted in this competition to support research training in venous thromboembolism (VTE) at Canadian centres.

CanVECTOR has awarded six trainees with Research Start-up Awards in the Fall 2020 Research Start-up Awards competition. Competition winners were awarded up to $2,500 for VTE-related research projects for a total of $13,450 in competition funding.

MONTREAL - October 2, 2020 - The CanVECTOR Studentship Award Competition for Fall 2020 is postponed to Spring 2021 (deadline to be announced at a later date). As CanVECTOR enters Phase 2 (2020-2025), the co-leads of the Basic/Translational Science platform, Drs. Paul Kim and Ed Conway, along with the co-leads of the Training, Mentoring and Early Career Development platform, Drs. Sudeep Shivakumar and Leslie Skeith, will be taking time to review how to better engage all basic science members and grow the basic science membership nationally...

MONTREAL, September 16, 2020 – In July 2020 CanVECTOR launched a special call for proposals to support research projects to enable network scientists to collect data to improve the understanding of COVID-19 in relation to venous thromboembolism (VTE) risk, diagnosis, prevention, management, and pathogenesis. The competition was launched in response to the urgent need to better understand the pathobiology and clinical implications of the viral infection that leads to the thrombosis-related morbidity and mortality seen with COVID-19.

MONTREAL, September 9, 2020 – Today, CanVECTOR launched its Fall 2020 Research Start-Up Awards Competitions with a submission deadline of Friday, October 30, 2020. 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