This is to announce that the 2011 competition for the Terry Fox New Frontiers Program in Cancer will be launched in late March to mid April. The objective of the Terry Fox New Frontiers Program Project Grant funding opportunity is to support Canadian research programs in cancer that explore new frontiers in cure-oriented research (i.e. breakthrough and transformative biomedical/translational research providing information which may form the basis for innovative cancer diagnosis and/or treatment).
Deadline for submitting a Letter of Intent (LOI): July 1, 2011.
Invitations to submit a full application by January 6, 2012 will be sent to successful applicants by September 30, 2011. Funding of grants from the 2011 competition will start July 1, 2012.
The full description of the funding opportunity and instructions on how to apply will be posted on the CIHR web site. Please visit the ICR home page regularly to find out about the latest funding opportunities.
The Terry Fox Research Institute is pleased to announce a new competition for Terry Fox New Investigators. The purpose of this award is to provide outstanding young researchers with support as they develop their career as independent research scientists or clinician scientists and to undertake high-quality research into cancer in close collaboration with established Terry Fox research teams. The full RFA is available online at
http://www.tfri.ca/programs/foundation_programs.asp. Funding starts October 1st, 2011.
Deadline for Application Summaries: Friday, April 1st, 2011
Deadline for Full Applications: Wednesday, June 1st, 2011.
