Details
| Opportunity Name | Pre-Clinical Acceleration Team Awards |
| Agency | Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) |
| Value | Up to $250,000 |
| Indirect Costs | Eligible at 30% |
| Duration | Up to 3 years |
Deadlines
Mandatory registration (Letter of Intent)
| LOI due to FSc RO at sciapps@yorku.ca for full review | 10-30-2023 |
| LOI and fully signed ORS checklist due to FSc RO at sciapps@yorku.ca for mandatory review | 11-06-2023 |
| LOI and fully signed ORS checklist due at ORS for mandatory review | 11-09-2023, by 9:00AM |
| Application due at agency | 11-13-2023, by 5:00PM |
Full application
| Application due to FSc RO at sciapps@yorku.ca for full review | 01-04-2024 |
| Application and fully signed ORS checklist due to FSc RO at sciapps@yorku.ca for mandatory review | 01-11-2024 |
| Final application and fully signed ORS checklist due at ORS for mandatory review | 01-16-2024, by 9:00AM |
| Application due at agency | 01-18-2024, by 5:00PM |
Objective
To support practice-changing research in biomarkers and therapeutics that will advance early detection and intervention research and have a clear path to the clinic and clinical impact.
OICR is inviting applications to the following stream:
Pre-Clinical Acceleration Team Awards (Pre-CATA): Supports pre-clinical projects with a clear path to the clinic, with a focus on pre-clinical development of biomarkers, diagnostics and therapeutics.
Eligibility
- OICR invites applications from investigators at Ontario academic centres, hospital research institutes or other government research institutions.
- OICR funding is only tenable in Ontario.
- For profit entities are not eligible to receive OICR funding.
- Applicants are eligible to submit a single Pre-CATA application as the Principal Investigator (PI) or Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI).
- PI/Co-PIs may participate on separate Pre-CATA applications as Co-Investigators or Collaborators.
How to Apply
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.