Opportunity
The purpose of this Request for Applications (RFA) is to investigate environmental exposures, such as chemicals or toxic emissions, that increase the risk of PD and/or influence disease progression.
Applications should focus on studies that achieve the following goals:
- Analyze large epidemiological datasets to identify environmental risk factors, such as exposure to chemicals, toxic emissions, air pollutants, and dietary contaminants, which are associated with an increased risk of PD.
- MJFF is especially interested in funding projects that utilize large longitudinal datasets and will prioritize collaborative efforts that bring together teams of investigators with access to multiple diverse datasets.
This program is not appropriate for studies that require additional or prospective data collection.
Eligibility
Applications may be submitted by researchers or clinicians in:
- U.S. and non-U.S. biotechnology/pharmaceutical companies, or other publicly or privately held for-profit entities; and
- U.S. and non-U.S. public and private non-profit entities, such as universities, colleges, hospitals, laboratories, units of state and local governments and eligible agencies of the federal government.
- Post-doctoral fellows are not eligible to apply as principal investigators. As projects may require many kinds of expertise, MJFF encourages industry and academic collaborations when appropriate.
Funding Available
Up to $400,000 for up to two years
Internal Contacts
For proposal development/substantive review, please contact Heloise Emdon.
Deadlines
| Faculty Deadline | Consult Heloise Emdon. |
| OVPRI Approval Form Deadline | April 16, 2020 |
| Submission to Sponsor | April 23, 2020 by 5 pm (Pre-Proposal) |
Submitting Your Application
- Step 1) Submit an internal Carleton Approval Form
Submit an internal Approval Form through our central awards management database CUResearch:
https://ovpri.research.carleton.ca/Romeo.Researcher/Administrator/Default.aspx
For a user’s guide on submitting an Approval Form, click here. - Step 2) Submit an external application to the granting agency
Submit an external application to the corresponding grant or award agency. For further details about funding categories, eligibility criteria and deadlines for this opportunity, click here.