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Graduate Training Award - Doctoral: Industry Partnered (2006-2007)

CIHR Research Translation Programs Branch - Innovation and Industry Programs

Request for Applications

Important Dates
Opportunity Launched	July 2006
Content Last Updated	(No updates since launch)
A - September 1, 2006 B - January 1, 2007	Registration Deadline - Registration packages must be courier stamped by this date.
A - October 1, 2006 B - February 1, 2007	Full applications must be courier stamped by this date.
A - February 28, 2007 B - April 30, 2007	Peer review will be completed by this date.
A - April 30, 2007 B - May 31, 2007	Anticipated notification of decision.
A - May 1, 2007 B - June 1, 2007	Earliest start date.
Additional Information	This funding opportunity has two (2) competitions: A and B. Applicants must choose the most appropriate CIHR research training award program for which they are eligible and may only submit an application to one of these programs. Applicants must wait until after they are notified of the decision for one application before they can submit to another training award opportunity.
Funds Available
CIHR's contribution to the amount available for this initiative is subject to availability of funds voted annually to CIHR by parliamentary appropriations, and the conditions that may be attached to them. The maximum amount awarded for a single award is $81,000 in total for up to three years: CIHR's contribution: $10,500 in stipend + $500 in research allowance per annum. Industry Partner's contribution: $10,500 in stipend + $500 in research allowance per annum. For awards held outside Canada, $5,000 is added to the annual stipend. This amount would be covered on an equal basis by CIHR and the Industry Partner. This award is non-renewable. The funding ratio for the program is 1:1 (CIHR: Industry).
Summary
CIHR Industry-Partnered Doctoral Research Awards are intended to provide special recognition and support to students who are pursuing a doctoral degree in a health related field in Canada or abroad, providing them with an opportunity to gain research experience. These candidates are expected to have an exceptionally high potential for future research achievement and productivity, providing a reliable supply of highly skilled and qualified researchers. Candidates must secure the sponsorship of an eligible company before a registration can be submitted.

Background
Partners
Objectives
Eligibility
Allowable Costs
Review Process and Evaluation Criteria
General CIHR Guidelines
Conditions of Funding
Communications Requirements
Monitoring, Performance Measurement and Evaluation
How to Apply
Contact Information

Background

CIHR's Innovation and Industry Programs are designed to help the academic community interact with Canadian companies with an interest in health research and development. The programs promote a wide variety of peer-reviewed research and training projects jointly funded by Canadian companies and CIHR. The research planned should be beneficial to both parties, while improving the quality of health of Canadians.

There are two main arms to CIHR's Innovation and Industry Programs: the CIHR/Rx&D Collaborative Research Program and the CIHR/SME (Small and Medium Enterprise) Research Program.

To learn more about industry-partnered programs you can visit the Innovation Programs web site.

Partners

The applicant must secure the sponsorship of an eligible company before a registration can be submitted.

A company is eligible provided that it:

is federally or provincially incorporated in Canada (exceptions will be considered upon receipt of documentation that a researcher has been unable to develop a collaboration with a suitable federally or provincially incorporated company in Canada);
demonstrates adequate resources to meet its commitment to a program; and
has a demonstrable ability to apply the results of research and development itself or through agreements with other companies having the capacity to produce and market products and processes.

Objectives

The broad goals of the partnership include:

encouraging and facilitating university-industry collaborations in health research;
stimulating incremental Rx&D research activity in Canada;
developing and training new scientists to meet the human resource needs of academia, industry, government, clinical and financial communities;
stimulating jobs and growth in the Canadian economy;
enhancing communications between senior management in industry and universities;
creating attractive and stimulating jobs in Canada for the researchers who are being developed/trained in our universities;
stimulating the health research programs of start-ups, university spin-offs and SMEs; and,
facilitating the translational research objectives of CIHR, with particular interests in clinical research Clinical research combines discoveries from the basic science laboratory incorporating the observations and insights of health professionals (a key aspect of translational research). It is the creation of new health knowledge and the translation of that knowledge from the research setting into applications where it ultimately impacts on the health of Canadians.

Eligibility

Eligibility criteria for all CIHR research funding programs apply. The business office of the institution of an eligible Nominated Principal Applicant generally administers CIHR funds. Please refer to the Eligibility Requirements for CIHR Grants and Awards regarding the eligibility requirements for individuals and institutions.

Specific to CIHR industry-partnered programs, please refer to the General Guidelines for Industry-Partnered Programs.

Specific to CIHR training awards, please refer to the General Guidelines for Training Programs.

Specific Eligibility Requirements

Eligibility requirements specific to this Request for Applications include the following:

These awards are open to Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada at the time of application.
Only those students engaged in full-time research training in a graduate school are eligible for support. At the time of application, candidates must have completed at least 12 months of graduate study at the Masters or PhD level.
At the time of application, applicants holding a Master's degree cannot have been registered for more than 14 months as a full-time student in a PhD program OR applicants who have transferred directly from a Bachelor's degree to a PhD program cannot have been registered for more than 26 months as a full-time student in a PhD program.
Awards will take effect only after the recipient has registered in a full-time PhD program.
A candidate may not hold more than three years of federal award funding (e.g. SSHRC, NSERC, CIHR) to undertake and/or complete a PhD degree. The maximum duration of award funding from all federal sources to undertake graduate studies is four years. The only exception to this is in the case of a Health Professional funded through the CIHR Fellowships program. Individuals already holding a doctoral award from a federal source for a term of three years are not eligible to apply.
A recipient of a Doctoral Research Award (DRA) with a Health Professional degree may apply to the Fellowship program no earlier than during the last year of their DRA. If a recipient of a DRA with a health professional degree applies to the Fellowship program before the end of the DRA, funding for the currently-held DRA will be cancelled as of the first potential effective date of the Fellowship program, even if the application is not successful through this program.
Students pursuing a combined MD/PhD program are eligible to apply, but are encouraged to review the guidelines of the CIHR MD/PhD Studentships program.
Candidates must secure the sponsorship of an eligible company before a registration can be submitted.

Allowable Costs

The awards consist of a stipend and a research allowance.

For the research allowance, awardees should review the Tri-Agency (CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC) financial administration guidelines, Use of Grant Funds section for a complete listing and description of allowable costs and activities.

Review Process and Evaluation Criteria

CIHR peer review committees will evaluate the full applications. Committees may be drawn from CIHR's pre-existing committees or may be created specifically for this Request for Applications. Committee members are selected based on suggestions from many sources including the institute(s) / portfolio(s) and partner(s), following CIHR's Policy on Confidentiality, Conflict of Interest and Privacy Issues in Peer and Relevance Review (CCIP). Doctoral Research Awards are reviewed in accordance with the Guide for Reviewer - CIHR Doctoral Research Awards.

The following general criteria for evaluating Doctoral Research Award applications will be used:

Achievements and Activities of the Candidate
Characteristics and Abilities of the Candidate
Research Training Environment

General CIHR Guidelines

This Request for Applications will follow the CIHR General Grants and Awards Policies. Applicants are encouraged to demonstrate the use of gender and sex-based analysis in applications.

Conditions of Funding

All conditions specified in CIHR General Grants and Awards Policies shall apply to applications funded through this Request for Applications. Conditions cover areas such as Applicant and Institutional Responsibilities, Ethics, Official language policy, Access to Information and Privacy Acts, and Acknowledgement of CIHR Support. Successful applicants will be informed of any special financial conditions prior to the release of funds or when they receive CIHR's Authorization for Funding (AFF) document.

In addition to CIHR standard guidelines and requirements, the following special conditions shall apply:

Candidates must secure the sponsorship of an eligible company before a registration can be submitted.
The award for which support is being sought should be under the supervision of a researcher who holds research funds obtained through a recognized competitive peer review process. These awards are normally held at Canadian institutions, but applications may be made for awards to be held outside of Canada.
The contribution for funding support from the industry partner must be in cash and must meet the ratio of 1:1 (CIHR: Industry). It should be noted that CIHR funding cannot be levered against contributions provided in the past and/or for support of research that has already started or been completed.
Awards can be taken up on the first of any month for up to 12 months. The 12-month period begins following receipt of the official Offer of Award.

Access to Information Act and Privacy Act, and the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA)

All personal information collected by CIHR about applicants is used to review applications, to recruit reviewers, to administer and monitor grants and awards, to compile statistics, and to promote and support health research in Canada. Consistent with these purposes, applicants should also expect that information collected by CIHR may be shared as described in Use and Disclosure of Personal Information Provided to CIHR for Peer Review.

CIHR as a federal entity is subject to the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act, therefore the requirements of these two statutes will apply to all information located in CIHR's premises including, without limitation, cost-sharing agreements related to this Request for Applications and all matters pertaining thereto.

While respecting the application of the Privacy Act to federal entities, all signing parties involved in a collaborative agreement will also be bound by the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). All personal information (as identified by the PIPEDA) collected, used or disclosed in the course of any commercial activity under collaborative agreements related to the Request for Applications will be collected, used and disclosed in compliance with the PIPEDA.

Communications Requirements

Award recipients are required to acknowledge CIHR, its institutes and partners in any communication or publication related to the project. See CIHR General Grants and Awards Policies, Acknowledgement of CIHR's Support for details on CIHR's communication requirements. The contributing institutes / partners will be identified on the Authorization for Funding and decision letter.

Monitoring, Performance Measurement and Evaluation

CIHR is committed to demonstrating results to Canadians for the money invested in health research. Therefore, processes for monitoring progress and appropriate use of funds, as well as for performance measurement and program evaluation are in place. As a result, funding recipients must:

contribute to the monitoring, review and evaluation of CIHR's programs, policies and processes by participating in evaluation studies, surveys, workshops, audits and providing data or reports as required for the purpose of collecting information to assess progress and results;
encourage their associates, trainees and administration to participate in the monitoring, review and evaluation of CIHR's programs, policies and processes as required.

How to Apply

The application process is comprised of two steps: 1) Registration and 2) Full Application.

Review the application instructions provided in How to Apply for Funding.

Additional instructions must be followed for this RFA.

Complete the Innovation and Industry Program identification page form [ PDF (220 KB) ] and include it on the top of your application package.
In the Program(s) section of the Training Module cover page, select "Rx&D;" or "SME" under "Doctoral Research Award". Your selection will be dependent on the type of industrial partner involved. Reference "Who We Are" for more information.
In the Research Funding Programs section of the CIHR Training Module (page 3 when printed), select "Industrial Partner(s)" and enter the name(s) of the partner(s).
Provide a paragraph (free letter form) on how the application will ultimately contribute to the improved health of Canadians. How does the proposed research address the translational research objectives of CIHR? How can the proposed research be incorporated, developed or integrated into clinical research? Clinical research combines discoveries from the basic science laboratory incorporating the observations and insights of health professionals (a key aspect of translational research). This may include basic research endeavours that have not yet reached the clinic, per se.

Send the completed registration and application packages by courier to:

RE: "Doctoral Research Awards - Industry-Partnered"
Research Translation Programs Branch
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Room 97, 160 Elgin Street
Address locator: 4809A
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0W9

Contact Information

For questions on this initiative, CIHR funding guidelines, how to apply, and the peer review process contact:

Jacqueline Jorge
Program Delivery Officer, Innovation and Industry Programs
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Telephone: (613) 952-5728
Fax: (613) 954-1800
Email: jjorge@cihr-irsc.gc.ca

Created: 2006-07-14
Modified: 2006-07-14
Reviewed: 2006-07-14
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