The Betty Havens Award for Knowledge Translation in Aging
The CIHR IA is pleased to recognize individual(s), team(s) or organization(s) that have advanced the translation of research in aging. The Betty Havens Award for Knowledge Translation in Aging honors the distinguished life and career of the late Betty Havens, a pioneer in gerontology.
IA and Partners build the Mobility in Aging Initiative
The long-term goal of the Mobility in Aging Initiative is to address research and knowledge translation needs within the range of intrinsic and extrinsic challenges (from biological to environmental) associated with mobility of older Canadians. The initiative includes several funding opportunities led by CIHR IA and/or its partners.
IA & IMHA Planning and Development Grants - Mobility in Aging and Physical Activity, Mobility and Health
In partnership with the Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis, this Request for Applications provides opportunities for the support of planning and/or development activities in Mobility in Aging that normally precede complex, multi-stakeholder and/or team research programs.
IA Research Syntheses in Mobility in Aging
In partnership with the Institute of Gender and Health and the CIHR Knowledge Translation Branch, the purpose of this Request for Applications is to identify research and knowledge translation gaps and further strengthen knowledge translation by supporting research synthesis in order to provide for evidence-informed decision-making.
IA Research on Aging Advancement Program (RAAP)
RAAP supports activities that will build and sustain the Canadian research on aging community and lead to excellence in research and knowledge translation within its priority topics. Three application deadlines are available: September 30, January 1 and May 1.
IA relaunches its regular funding opportunities
The IA Funding opportunities page provide links to its regular funding opportunities (also listed below) as well as those aforementioned, and others relevant to the IA community.
CIHR and its partners' programs are announced regularly on a June and December cycle. The December 2005 program launches are now posted. Also please check regularly for off-cycle opportunities.
The Canadian Nurses Foundation (CNF) and the Best Practice Research Unit have formed a partnership to build additional research capacity and fund projects in the area of best practice guidelines. Deadline: March 1, 2006
Western Regional Training Centre for Health Services Research offers studentships to qualified graduate students to undertake broad multi-disciplinary training in health services research. Contact Faye Pedersen, Program Coordinator, for information on the following opportunities:
Partnerships for Health System Improvement Competition
CIHR and its partners are pleased to announce the results of the Partnerships for Health System Improvement Competition. Within this competition, IA funded the work of Margaret Denton, Jenny Ploeg et al., from McMaster University, on "Older adults' access to community support services: Service awareness and information sources".
The Institute of Aging is pleased to announce the most recent Age plus prize winner [http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/26987.html]. All awardees have received a $1,000 prize and a certificate of excellence.
June 2005 - Xiulian Sun (University of British Columbia), for her article "Distinct transcriptional regulation and function of the human BACE2 and BACE1 genes" published in The FASEB Journal (2005) 19, 739-749;
July 2005 - Danielle St-Arnaud-McKensie (Université de Montreal), for her article "Hunger and aversion: Drives that influence food intake of hospitalized geriatric patients" published in the Journal of Gerontology, (2004) Vol. 59A, No. 12, 1304-1309;
August 2005 - Christina Siwak (University of California Irvine), for her article "Chronic antioxidant and mitochondrial cofactor administration improves discrimination learning in aged but not young dogs" published in Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry (2005) 29, 461-469;
September 2005 - Darren DeLorey (University of Western Ontario), for his article "Effects of prior heavy-intensity exercise on pulmonary O2 uptake and muscle deoxygenation kinetics in young and older humans" published in the Journal of Applied Physiology, (2004) 97:998-1005;
October 2005 - Jie Zheng (Queen's University), pour his article "Differential patterns of apoptosis in response to aging in Drosophila" published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, (2005) vol. 102 no. 34, 12083-12088;
For more details on the winners or on how to apply for this prize, please consult the Institute's website.
2006 Summer Program in Aging (SPA)
IA in partnership with the Quebec-based Strategic Training Program in Aging, Formation interdisciplinaire en recherche Santé et Vieillissement (FormSaV), in association with the Réseau québécois de recherche sur le vieillissement (RQRV) of the FRSQ, is pleased to hold the inaugural Summer Program in Aging (SPA) June 4 to 8, 2006, at the Centre de Villégiature Jouvence, Mount Orford Provincial park.
IA Regional Seniors' Workshops on Research
The Ontario Seniors' Workshop on Research was held November 4-5, in Toronto, ON. With over 60 regional participants from across Ontario, the workshop discussions revealed common issues related to research on aging from the perspective of seniors, policy-makers, practitioners, non-governmental organizations and researchers, as well as group-specific issues. The IA is thankful for the contributions of the Ontario Regional Implementation Committee led by co-Chairs: Elizabeth Esteves and Debby Vigoda. Members included: Joan Barham, Max Beck, Amy Go, Melanie Hess, Roland Lecomte, Mary Lou Kelly, Richard Mayer, Judy Muzzi, Douglas Rapelje, and Linda Stebbins.
IA Canadian Research Forum on Aging at the 2005 Canadian Association on Gerontology Conference
The CAG meeting was held October 20-22, in Halifax. As part of the Canadian Research Forum on Aging, the CIHR Institute of Aging sponsored two Special Joint CAG/CIHR Institute of Aging Symposia:
Additional activities of the Canadian Research Forum on Aging at CAG included a CIHR Grant Crafting Workshop, a Breakfast Meeting for Directors of Canadian Research on Aging Centres, Meet the CIHR Institute of Aging Director, Announcement of CIHR IA Special Recognition Prize Awards, and a CIHR IA Student Poster Competition.
CIHR IA Special Recognition Prize Awardees announced at Canadian Research Forum on Aging at CAG were:
The winners of the CIHR IA Student Poster Competition announced at the Canadian Research Forum on Aging at CAG were:
CIHR launches an E-Newsletter: CIHR Health Research News. The newsletter is published on a monthly basis.
Canadian Health Research Awards of 2005
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), in collaboration with the Health Charities Coalition of Canada, Research Canada: An Alliance for Health Discovery (formerly the Council for Health Research in Canada) and provincial health research organizations, is proud to present the 2005 Canadian Health Research Awards, in recognition of Canada's best and brightest health researchers.
This first workshop hosted by the BC Network for Aging Research (BCNAR) will focus on Dementia Research in BC: Past, Present and Future. January 26, 2006, 8:30 - 4:30, Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre Campus, Vancouver. Deadline for poster abstract submission: January 16, 2006.
Call for Abstracts: TRANSED 2007 11th International Conference on Mobility and Transport for Elderly and Disabled Persons. Montreal, Canada, June 18-21, 2007 Theme: "Benchmarking, Evaluation and Vision for the Future". The deadline for submission of abstracts is February 15, 2006.
Promising Practices series announced by the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation highlights organizations that are finding innovative ways to increase their capacity to use research for evidence-based decision-making through investments in people, processes, or structure.
The Proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the Seventh Framework programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) describes activities under Health which include research on the brain and related diseases, human development and ageing (to explore the process of healthy ageing and the way genes and environment interact with brain activity, under normal conditions, as well as in brain diseases).
January 26-28 International Symposium: Obesity in the Elderly Rome, Italy
January 30-February 3 Geriatrics: Issues in Primary Care Medicine Sarasota, Florida, USA
February 2-4 International Conference on Aging, Disability and IndependenceSt. Petersburg, FL, USA
February 3-5 International Congress on Gait and Mental Function: the Interplay between walking, behaviour and cognition. Madrid, Spain
February 9-12 The 5th World Congress on the Aging Male Salzburg, Austria
February 22-26 World Parkinson Congress New-York, NY, USA
March 10-13 American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry's 2006 Annual Meeting San Juan, Porto Rico
March 29-April 01 3rd International Conference on Functional Genomics of Ageing Palerme, Sicily, Italy
April 02-06 Geriatrics 2006 "International Congress of Elderly Health" Istanbul, Turkey
April 05-08 British Geriatrics Society Spring Meeting Gateshead, Newcastle, England
April 07-08 7th Annual Integrated Care Conference Integrated Care Montreal, Canada
April 20-22 2006 Canadian Geriatrics Society Annual Scientific Meeting Vancouver, Canada
April 26-27 25th Ontario Gerontology Association Annual Conference Toronto, Canada
May 05-06 2nd International Conference on Creative Expression, Communication and Dementia (CECD 2006) Vancouver, Canada
