CIHR Programs

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CIHR Programs

• Research Grants
• Operating Grants
• Collaborative Programs
• CIHR Groups
• IHRTs
• CAHR
• Equipment Grants
• Maintenance Grants
• Clinical Trials

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CIHR Programs

• Awards (Training and Salary Support)
• Burroughs Wellcome Awards
• Doctoral Research Awards
• MD/PhD Program
• Postdoctoral Fellowships
• Senior Fellowships
• Clinician Scientists
• New Investigators, Investigators and Senior
  Investigators

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Operating Grants

• Objective Excellence in research, one or a small
  group of investigators, investigator-initiated
• Budgets no limits, average award ? 90K annually
• Renewal paradigm
• Application pressure
• 1100-1400 applicants/competition
• Cut-offs
• 3.8-4.0 same for new and renewal application
• 2 competitions per year Sept. 15 and March 1st
• Peer review 32 committees, 10-18 members each

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Last competition results

• New Operating Grant Success Rate is 25
• Renewal Success Rate is 54
• Average values are 90,186 and 95,981
  respectively
• 3 IHRTs out of the 10 approved are related to our
  Institute
• 3 CAHR out of the 19 approved are related to our
  Institute

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CHIR Budget
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Four Research Pillars of CIHR

• Biomedical
• Clinical
• Health services and health systems
• Health of populations, societal and cultural
  dimensions of health, and environmental
  influences on health

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CIHRs 13 Institutes
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Scientific Directors

• Aboriginal Peoples,
• J. Reading, U. Toronto
• Cancer
• P. Branton, McGill
• Circulatory
• B.M. McManus, UBC
• Gender
• M Stewart, U. Alberta
• Genetics
• R. McInnes, U. Toronto
• Health Services
• M.L. Barer, UBC
• Healthy Aging
• R. Hébert, U. Sherbrooke

• Human Development
• J. Challis, U.Toronto
• Infection and Immunity
• B. Singh, UWO
• Musculoskeletal
• C. Frank, U. Calgary
• Neurosciences, Mental Health, Addiction
• R. Quirion, McGill
• Nutrition
• D. Finegood, SFU
• Population
• J. Frank, U. Toronto

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How to get in touch with us?

• Rémi Quirion, Scientific Director
• quirem_at_douglas.mcgill.ca
• Tel [phone] ext. 2934
• Fax [phone]
• Richard Brière, Assistant Director
• briric_at_douglas.mcgill.ca
• Tel [phone] ext. 3930
• Fax [phone]
• Astrid Eberhart, Institute Liaison in Ottawa
• aeberhart_at_cihr.ca
• Tel [phone]

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Key Issues for our Institute

• Buy in by all scientists
• IAB representativity
• Size / inventory
• Same budget as all the other institutes
• Joint Ventures
• Support from public and lay organizations

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Institute Budget

• Direct
• Institute Support Grant
• Strategic Initiative Envelop
• Indirect
• allocation of investigator initiated grants and
  awards
• ongoing projects

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Institute Support Grant

• 1 million
• fixed ongoing costs
• salaries (Scientific Director 2 positions)
• operating costs (rent, etc.)
• travel
• Institute Advisory Board operations
• Institute Development
• workshops, international collaborations,
• BrainStar Program, etc.

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Institute Development

• Examples
• seed funding of novel, high risk research
• development of training or conference setting
• directed communications initiative
• workshop and on-going network support
• sponsorship for international engagement
• strategic research indentification
• support for partner initiatives
• development stage for strategic initiatives
• BrainStar program

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BrainStar Program

• To recognize the excellence of the research done
  by trainees in all fields covered by our
  Institute
• 1,000 per award preferably used to present at a
  scientific meeting
• Attributed every 2 weeks by a small committee of
  4-5 members of the IAB including the Scientific
  Director
• Based on a research article recently published
  (less than 6 months) as first author in a high
  impact journal
• Cross-pillar is a plus

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Strategic Initiative Envelop

• 2001/2002 - April 1st, 2001
• Budget of 2.5 M? 800 000 / Institute
• subject to confirmation by Governing Council
• Rules of engagement need to be established
• e.g. multi-institute initiatives
• training grants
• RFA development
• accountability

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What are Strategic Initiatives?

• Requests for Proposals - peer review
• Training Grant
• Research
• Workshops
• Program or strategy development
• Partnership engagement
• Network building and on-going support
• International coordination
• Communications

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Potential RFA Generating Process

• Training Grant - Spring 2001
• Training Center Grant
• Aim for 250,000 x 2 foci
• 500,000 partner contributions
• 4-year grant with mid-term review

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Ground Rules for Training Grants

• Involve Training Centers or Groups of Training
  Centers
• Must include at least 2 of the 4 themes
• Could involve but not necessary to be
  cross-institute
• Must show innovation, value-added
• Fills a gap -should increase training capacity
  for students and teaching capacity for
  Faculty-Institute

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Conditions for RFA Grants

• Institute Grants
• 2 or more researchers who pool their expertise,
  different perspectives, and resources to address
  or resolve an important health research issue
• At least 2 of the 4 themes must be represented
• Multi-university and multi-centre

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Examples of RFAs

• Suicide
• Schizophrenia
• Consciousness
• www.douglashospital.qc.ca/fdg/hc/
• Nature-Nurture
• Addictions

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Interdisciplinary Health Research Teams

• IHRTs 5 researchers who pool their expertise,
  different perspectives, and resources to address
  or resolve an important health research issue
• At least 2 of the 4 themes must be represented
• 179 LOIs received, 32 applications invited, 10
  funded
• Average of 11 investigators from 5 institutions
  per application

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Interdisciplinary Health Research Teams relevant
to INMHA

• B. Fischer, CAMH, U of Toronto
• 694,733 (OP), 22,465 (EQ)
• Illicit opiate addiction, treatment and policy
  in Canada a cross-disciplinary, comprehensive,
  and concerted research initiative
• J. Holden, Queens University
• 882,626 (OP), 100,000 (EQ)
• Unravelling the mysteries of autism from
  genotyping and phenotyping to prospective
  identification and prevention

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Interdisciplinary Health Research Teams relevant
to INMHA

• W. Yong, CBBA, University of Calgary
• 1,416,685 (OP), 39,630 (EQ)
• Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) in Multiple
  sclerosis Environment influence, biology,
  pathology, and therapeutic strategies

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Community Alliances in Health Research

• CAHR extends community involvement with
  university, hospital and institute-based
  researchers into the fields of health and health
  care. Community partner directly involved in the
  planning, design and dissemination of the project
• 178 LOIs received, 40 applications invited, 19
  funded
• Average of 19 institutions reaching 26
  communities per application

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Community Alliance for Health Research relevant
to INMHA

• P. McGrath, Dalhousie University
• 2,041,458
• Family Help CAHR Research-driven primary mental
  health care for children and adolescents
• B. Mishara, UQAM
• 1,960,000
• Partenariat entre le Centre de recherche et
  d intervention sur le suicide et leuthanasie et
  organismes communautaires en prévention du suicide

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Community Alliance for Health Researchrelevant
to INMHA

• D. Goodman, Simon Fraser University
• 1,431,703
• Mild head injury in youth hockey There really
  is cause for concern

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KEY STEPS NOW

• IAB
• Training Grant Program
• First RFA
• Second RFA

• Approximately
• mid-February 2001
• Spring 2001
• Summer 2001
• Winter 2002

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Proposed Timeline
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www.cihr.ca inmha_at_cihr.ca