Details
| Opportunity Name | Team Grants – Bringing Biology to Cancer Prevention |
| Agency | Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) |
| Value | Up to $2,000,000 |
| Indirect Costs | Ineligible |
| Duration | Up to 5 years |
Deadlines
| Registration due at agency | Winter 2025 |
| Application due to FSc RO at sciapps@yorku.ca for full review | TBD |
| Application and fully signed ORS checklist due to FSc RO at sciapps@yorku.ca for mandatory review | TBD |
| Final application and fully signed ORS checklist due at ORS for mandatory review | TBD |
| Application due at agency | Summer 2025 |
Objective
This funding opportunity aims to:
- Strengthen and promote research capacity in cancer prevention, early detection, and risk reduction through interdisciplinary and experiential-based approaches.
- Advance the understanding of the biological mechanisms underlying cancer etiology, genesis, and/or risk linked with host, lifestyle, environmental, social, and other factors to enable improvements in cancer prevention, early detection, and risk reduction at the individual and/or population-level.
- Foster and enable interdisciplinary team science by connecting diverse researchers across discovery, clinical, health services, and population health research, and knowledge users and knowledge holders, whose collaborative efforts are required to achieve an improved understanding of the biological mechanisms and associated determinants of health that influence cancer risk and development.
- Bridge the gap between research and clinical/public health practice through knowledge mobilization.
Eligibility
Collaborations between traditional cancer prevention researchers (e.g., population and public health researchers, epidemiologists, social scientists) and those from other disciplines (e.g., biologists, immunologists, geneticists, drug developers) or who are new to the field are strongly encouraged. Collectively, these research teams will develop and disseminate evidence-based solutions to enable improvements in cancer prevention, risk reduction, and early detection at the individual and/or population-level.
How to Apply
To signal your intent to apply and to book a one-on-one meeting, please contact the SIRI team, in the Office of Research Services, by e-mail (siri@yorku.ca). Please include “CIHR Team Grant – Cancer” in the subject line.
York University researchers are reminded that all applications for external research funding, including Letters of Intent, must be reviewed and approved by the Office of Research Services before they are submitted to the granting agency. For internal approval, the application must be accompanied by a completed ORS Checklist, which requires the Dean’s signature. Please send the complete application, with the finalized budget and a completed ORS checklist to sciapps@yorku.ca, five days prior to agency deadline.
ORS is accepting electronic applications – the process is outlined here.