CanVECTOR in the News

MONTREAL, August 23, 2021 – The Network is pleased to announce that registration is now open for the CanVECTOR 2021 Annual Conference - Create, Connect, Collaborate: Promoting Excellence in Knowledge & Practice to Prevent VTE to be held from Friday, November 5th to Saturday, November 6th, 2021 in partnership with Thrombosis Canada. 

MONTREAL, August 9, 2021 – Today, CanVECTOR launched its 2021 Pilot TrialsFunding Competition with a submission deadline of Monday, October 4, 2021. 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.

MONTREAL, July 16, 2021 – CanVECTOR has awarded two trainees with Research Fellowship Awards and eight trainees with Studentship Awards in the Spring 2021 Research Training Awards competition. 

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) recently announced the results of their Fall 2020 Project Grant competition, and the network is thrilled to announce that four CanVECTOR-led thrombosis studies were awarded project funding in this competition for a total of $2.78 million (CAD).

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.