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PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY. Dear Colleagues, Please take just 3 minutes to complete our survey http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/B95FLKX regarding CIHR proposed reforms. We need your answers, and as many as we can get, to build a strong Faculty-wide response to CIHR. We thank you very much for taking the time. Attached also is a summary of the CIHR [...]

Killam Research Fellowship Please reply to: Jessica Keating (jessica.keating@utoronto.ca) The Canada Council for the Arts has announced a call for the 2013 Killam Research Fellowship. The Killam Research Fellowships are awarded annually, on a competitive basis, to support scholars doing research in any of the following fields: humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, health sciences, engineering, [...]

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation New Grant Opportunities Please reply to: Laura DeBartolo (laura.debartolo@utoronto.ca) The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and its funding partners in the Grand Challenges family of grant programs are inviting innovators to apply for three new grant opportunities: 1. Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative to encourage innovative and unconventional global health [...]

PLEASE NOTE: The location has been changed to Room 3154 Medical Sciences Building, 1 King’s College Circle **************************************************************************** Dear Colleagues, The CIHR released a Design Discussion Document on Proposed Changes to CIHR’s Open Suite of Programs and Peer Review on its web-site on February 9, 2012: http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/44761.html Also see attachment: http://www.psychiatry.utoronto.ca/News12/feb/Feb9-2012-CIHR-DesignDiscussDoc.pdf or http://tinyurl.com/7rcb2p8 The changes [...]

2012 Genome Canada Competition for Genomics and Personalized Health Genome Canada has now launched the 2012 Large Scale Applied Research Project Competition in the area of Genomics and Personalized Health. This competition intends to support applied genomics health research that will contribute to a more evidence-based approach to health and a more cost-effective health-care system. A [...]

Recently received updates and information: Week of January 23, 2012 There are several recently received updates, from the following sources. Please go to Faculty of Medicine Research and International Relations website for details: http://www.medresearch.utoronto.ca/fmro_whats_new.html 1. Ontario Genomics Institute: Pre-commercialization Development Fund 2. Prostate Cancer Foundation: Honorable A. David Mazzone Special Challenge Award Research Program 2012 [...]

MEMORANDUM TO:         PDAD&C FROM:     Professor Paul Young, Vice President, Research DATE:     August 24, 2011 RE:         Ontario Research Fund – Research Excellence, Round 6  ________________________________________________________________________ The Ministry of Research & Innovation has just released information on Round 6 of the Ontario Research Fund-Research Excellence (ORF-RE) program. The ORF-RE program promotes research excellence of strategic value to [...]

MEMORANDUM TO:       PDAD&C FROM:     Professor Paul Young, Vice President, Research DATE:     August 22, 2011 RE:       Early Research Award 2011 (Round 8)  Please bring this information to the attention of eligible faculty in your department. The Ministry of Research and Innovation has announced the 2011 competition for Early Researcher Awards (ERA).  This program helps promising, recently-appointed Ontario researchers [...]

The Department of Psychiatry’s Annual Report for 2009-2010 is now posted. View Annual Report

Correction: June 16th  is a Thursday, not a Wednesday:  Message to Department Chairs, Extra-Departmental Unit Directors, Business Officers, Hospital Research Institute Vice Presidents, Hospital Research Institute Administrators, Hospital and MedRes (VDRIR) Listserv ************************************************************************************************************* Please forward as appropriate. Save the date!  Faculty of Medicine CIHR Grant Writing Workshop: Thursday, June 16, 2011, 1 – 5pm The Faculty of Medicine will [...]