Opportunities

Autism Speaks Request for Applications - Treatment Research Grants

Opportunity Type: 
Funding
Application Deadline: 
Thu, 02/23/2012 - 5:00pm

Autism Speaks invites both Full- and Pilot-Level Treatment research grant applications to conduct innovative clinical studies of novel interventions for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) throughout the lifespan. These may include medical approaches including complementary and alternative forms of health care and pharmacological treatments, as well as behavioral and/or psychosocial interventions, and evaluation of the efficacy, safety or therapeutic benefits of all types of interventions. Also appropriate are animal model studies that test the effects of novel compounds for reducing autism symptoms.

Autism Speaks Invites Research Grant Applications - Basic & Clinical Research Grants

Opportunity Type: 
Funding
Application Deadline: 
Wed, 02/29/2012 - 5:00pm

Autism Speaks invites both Full- and Pilot-Level Basic & Clinical research grant applications to conduct innovative biomedical and behavioral research into the causes, diagnosis, treatment, prevention and dissemination of evidence-based practices for Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD).

Training Institute for Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health

Opportunity Type: 
Training
Application Deadline: 
Fri, 03/02/2012 - 11:59pm

The goal of this 5-day training institute is to provide participants with a thorough grounding in conducting dissemination and implementation research in health. Faculty and guest lecturers will consist of leading experts (practitioners and teachers) in theory, implementation and evaluation approaches to D&I, creating partnerships and multi-level transdisciplinary research teams, research design, methods and analyses appropriate for D&I investigations and conducting research at different and multiple levels of intervention (e.g., clinical, community, policy).

KT Canada Strategic Training Initiative in Health Research (STIHR) Training Program

Opportunity Type: 
Funding
Application Deadline: 
Thu, 03/15/2012 (All day)

This is a funding opportunity for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in the field of Knowledge Translation.

 

KT Canada's Research Project Stipend

Opportunity Type: 
Funding
Application Deadline: 
Thu, 03/15/2012 - 11:59pm

KT Canada is once again offering the Student Research Project Stipend funding opportunity. This stipend is open to all registered KT Canada Graduate students (Masters and PhDs) and Post-Doctoral Fellows. The funding is to be used for research purposes only and is intended to assist with some of the costs associated with completing student-led research: thesis-related research by Graduate Students and research projects by Post-Doctoral Fellows.

KT Canada Summer Institute 2012

Opportunity Type: 
Training
Application Deadline: 
Thu, 03/15/2012 - 11:59pm

The Knowledge Translation (KT) Canada Summer Institute will be held in Ottawa from June 4-6, 2012. The purpose of this Summer Institute is to provide participants with the opportunity to increase their understanding of knowledge translation research as well as opportunities and challenges in this field. The Summer Institute will provide participants with the chance to network with colleagues including national and international KT experts.

The theme of the 2012 Institute is "Developing KT Leaders/Practitioners of Tomorrow".

2012 Taubman Prize For Excellence in Translational Medical Science

Opportunity Type: 
Funding
Application Deadline: 
Sun, 04/01/2012 - 11:59pm

Description:
This award is presented annually by the A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute at the University of Michigan. It is meant to recognize work in the crucial field of translational research being conducted by the clinician-scientist who has done the most to transform laboratory discoveries into clinical applications for patients suffering from disease.

National Neuroscience Recruitment Drive - University of Calgary

Opportunity Type: 
Training
Application Deadline: 
Sat, 09/01/2012 (All day)

Description: