Deadline: 15 March 2018
Banting Research Foundation is inviting applicants for its Discovery Award Program that is a one-year grant of up to $25,000 for innovative health and biomedical research projects by outstanding new investigators at universities and research institutes in Canada who are within the first three years of their first academic appointment.
The intent is to provide seed funding so that applicants are able to gather pilot data to enhance their competitiveness for other sources of funding. They are usually able to fund about 6 projects per year.
Funding Criteria
- Funds can be used to purchase equipment and for general operating expenses specified in the budget proposal, including salaries for technicians, postdoctoral fellows and students.
- Funds may not be used to pay the salary of the applicant, overhead, or travel expenses.
- Equipment purchased with grant funds is the property of the institution at which the grant is held.
- Any unexpended funds are to be returned to the Banting Research Foundation.
Eligibility Criteria
- This competition is open to new investigators at any Canadian university or affiliated research institute who will be within the first three years of the date of their first career academic appointment at the application deadline date of March 15, 2018,
- Applicants have not been awarded by their institution more than $150,000 in start-up funding (exclusive of support from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation),
- Applicants have not been awarded more than $50,000 per annum in external operating funds at the application deadline date. (An applicant who has been awarded more than $50,000 per annum in external operating funds may submit a request for less than $25,000, such that the total sum of operating funds received from all sources during the funding year, should the application to the Banting Research Foundation be successful, not exceed $75,000.)
- Institutional Support
- The application must be accompanied by a letter of nomination from the applicant’s host department or division head that:
- confirms that all eligibility criteria have been met,
- details the operating and the institutional start-up funds available to the applicant, and
- confirms that the candidate has been provided the space and access to institutional infrastructure necessary to conduct the proposed research.
How to Apply
Applicants can apply via given website.
Eligible Country: Canada
For more information, please visit Discovery Award Program.