Senior Scientist Research Training Awards

Program details

Application deadline: on hold; no new awards for 2012/2013

Application forms

Review process

Cystic Fibrosis Canada Grants & Awards Guide
 

Recent award competition results:
Dr. Robert E.W. Hancock, The University of British Columbia
Novel genetic screen employing mouse homozygous knockout ES cells
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK
September 2011 – August 2012, $29,116

Annual financial reports

Progress reports

Purpose

Senior Scientist Research Training awards provide support to a limited number of established CF investigators by offering them an opportunity to obtain additional training that will enhance their capacity to conduct research directly relevant to CF. This award can be used for sabbatical support for qualified individuals.

Eligibility

Applicants must have held a recognized, full-time faculty appointment in a relevant discipline at a Canadian university or hospital for at least six years. In addition, applicants must hold major research grant funding from recognized granting agencies.

Term

Senior Scientist Research Training awards are awarded for a minimum of three months to a maximum of one year. Frequency of application should be reasonable; once every five years.

Value

The amount of the award, to a maximum of $30,000, will be determined by the Medical/Scientific Advisory Committee, following a review of the application.

Criteria

Decisions concerning the award, are made by Cystic Fibrosis Canada's Medical/Scientific Advisory Committee, on the basis of the following considerations:

• the quality and scientific merit of the proposed research program;
• the relevance of the proposed research to cystic fibrosis;
• the qualifications of the applicant, along with the host named in the application, to conduct the proposed research;
• the availability to the applicant of the resources necessary to conduct the proposed research;
• the potential of the proposed work to produce significant results.

Application requirements

Applications must be received by Cystic Fibrosis Canada no later than October 1/April 1. Incomplete and/or late applications will be returned to the applicant. All investigators must submit all required institutional approvals for experiments involving human and/or animal subjects, and/or biohazardous materials by December 1 of the year in which the application is submitted.

Applicants may hold only one Cystic Fibrosis Canada personnel award concurrently.

Use of funds

Funds may be awarded in support of salary (including fringe benefits), travel to the host institute for the applicant (but not for family members nor for transportation of household belongings), accommodation, and for research supplies and expendables.

Senior Scientist Research Training awards do not provide support for indirect or overhead costs.

Terms and conditions

1. Payment of awards

   Senior Scientist Research Training awards will be paid, through the institution, in a single payment for those awards less than six months in duration, and will be made at the beginning of each fiscal quarter, and will coincide with the fiscal year of most universities: April 1 through March 31, for those awards of six months duration or greater.

2. Accounting, unexpended funds and over-expenditure

   An accounting of expenditures must be forwarded to Cystic Fibrosis Canada’s office within 90 days of the termination of an award. Unexpended funds must be returned to Cystic Fibrosis Canada. Any commitment incurred by a recipient in excess of the amount of the Senior Scientist Research Training award is not the responsibility of Cystic Fibrosis Canada.

3. Reports

   A final report (not to exceed two pages) must be forwarded to Cystic Fibrosis Canada’s office within 30 days of the termination of an award.

4. Patents and royalties

   All award recipients must agree to the terms of Cystic Fibrosis Canada's policy on patents and royalties.

Reviewed/updated: 2011-12-08