Funder’s Website
The funder’s website can be found HERE.
Funding Value and Duration
CIHR and partner(s) financial contributions for this initiative are subject to availability of funds. Should CIHR or partner(s) funding levels not be available or are decreased due to unforeseen circumstances, CIHR and partner(s) reserve the right to reduce, defer or suspend financial contributions to grants received as a result of this funding opportunity. CIHR and the partner(s) are only responsible for paying their portion of a grant and cannot be required to pay the portion of a grant owed by the other party.
The total amount available for this funding opportunity is up to CA$32,000,000 and up to ¥380,000,000, enough to fund up to approximately sixteen (16) grants. This amount may increase if additional funding partners participate. The maximum amount per grant for Canadian Teams is CA$400,000 per year for up to five (5) years, for a total of CA$2,000,000 per grant.
Overview
The Team Grants: Bringing Biology to Cancer Prevention aims to unite interdisciplinary research teams to advance the biological and mechanistic understanding of cancer etiology, genesis, and risk, linked with host, lifestyle, environmental, social, and other factors, to identify new targets and approaches for cancer prevention, risk reduction, and early detection. 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.
A Cancer Data and Bio-Resource Hub funding opportunity may be launched in the future to fund an interdisciplinary research team that will support collaboration, data management and sharing, sharing of biosamples, protocols, and tools, as well as open science approaches across the funded teams within this current funding opportunity. Research teams that are funded through this current funding opportunity will be strongly encouraged to collaborate with the Cancer Data and Bio-Resource Hub.
Eligibility Criteria
CIHR Eligibility
For an application to be eligible, all the requirements stated below must be met:
- The Nominated Principal Applicant (NPA) must be an independent researcher affiliated with a Canadian postsecondary institution and/or its affiliated institutions (including hospitals, research institutes and other non-profit organizations with a mandate for health research and/or knowledge mobilization).
- The NPA must have their substantive role in Canada for the duration of the requested grant term.
- The Institution Paid must be authorized to administer CIHR funds by the funding start date.
- The research team must be interdisciplinary, and at a minimum, must include each of four (4) participant types listed below. Note that an individual can fulfill multiple participant types.
- A NPA or Principal Applicant (PA) from CIHR Pillar 1.
- A NPA or PA from CIHR Pillar 2, Pillar 3 or Pillar 4.
- An Early Career Researcher (ECR) as NPA, PA, or Co-Applicant. ECR eligibility status must be met by the full application deadline date.
- A knowledge user (including but not limited to PWLLE, practitioners, decision makers, policy makers, community leaders).
- For any research applications involving First Nations, Inuit, and Métis populations, research teams must include at least one applicant who self-identifies as Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit, or Métis) or provides evidence of having meaningful and culturally safe involvement with Indigenous Peoples (see How to Apply for more details).
- The NPA and all PAs must have successfully completed one of the Sex and Gender Training Modules available online through the CIHR Institute of Gender and Health and submit a Certificate of Completion by the full application deadline (see How to Apply for more details).
- An individual cannot submit more than one (1) application to this funding opportunity as an NPA. If the NPA submits more than one application, CIHR will automatically withdraw the subsequent application(s) submitted based on timestamp of submission.
- For the International Japan–Canada Geroscience Pool only:
- In addition to the requirements above, collaborative projects must include a co-lead from Japan. The Japan-based Principal Investigator (PI) must be listed as a Principal Applicant in ResearchNet.
AMED Eligibility (International Japan–Canada Geroscience Pool only)
- For additional eligibility requirements for the Japanese component of the application, refer to the AMED Call Supplemental Guidance for Japan-based applicants on the AMED website.
Internal Contacts
Potential applicants are encouraged to discuss this funding opportunity with their Faculty Research Facilitator.
Deadlines
| Faculty Deadline | Consult your Faculty Research Facilitator. |
| Registration Deadline | April 1, 2025 |
| OVPRI Approval Form Deadline | June 12, 2025 |
| Submission to Sponsor | June 19, 2025 |
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. To navigate to the funder’s website, click HERE