This funding information has been circulated via the Research Chairs and email distribution lists. Please circulate the following announcements to interested faculty members as appropriate.
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1. Alive & Thrive (A&T) Small Grants Program
Sponsor Deadline - Letters of Interest (LOIs): September 14, 2010
The A&T Small Grants Program aims to fund operational research projects that will identify novel approaches and overcome key barriers to improving infant and young child feeding (IYCF) at scale in low and middle-income countries. Awards for small grants will generally be in the range of $50,000-100,000 USD.
Selected applicants will be asked to submit a full proposal.
More information can be found at: http://www.aliveandthrive.org/grants/LOI-application-instructions
2. National Institutes of Health (NIH): New R01 Research Grants
Internal deadline: September 28, 2010
Application deadline: October 5, 2010
NIH Research Grant information and resources are available on our website at:
www.research.utoronto.ca/for-researchers-administrators/funding-sources/funding-opps/international/nih/?showopp=233
3. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Grand Challenges Explorations, Round 6
Internal deadline: October 29, 2010. Provide a copy of the application and a completed and signed RIS form to Debbie Bilinski.
Application deadline: November 2, 2010, 11:30 a.m. Pacific Time
This initiative encourages innovative and unconventional global health solutions. Applicants can be at any experience level, in any discipline, and from any organization, including colleges and universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations and for profit companies. Initial grants will be US $100,000 each, and projects showing promise will have the opportunity to receive additional funding of up to US $1 million.
Grant proposals are being accepted online on the following topics:
• New! The Poliovirus Endgame: Create Ways to Accelerate, Sustain and Monitor Eradication
• New! Create the Next Generation of Sanitation Technologies
• New! Design New Approaches to Cure HIV Infection
• Create New Technologies to improve the Health of Mothers and Newborns
• Create Low-Cost Cell Phone-Based Applications for Priority Global Health Diseases
Full descriptions of the new topics and application instructions are available at: http://www.grandchallenges.org/Pages/default.aspx
During the application process, you may be required to provide the University of Toronto Institutional Officer's information. The Institutional Officer is the person authorized to sign the grant agreement on behalf of the university. Please contact Debbie Bilinski to obtain this information if you are submitting an application.
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Please contact me if you are planning to apply to any of these funding opportunities.
Thank you,
Debbie
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Debbie Bilinski
Research Funding Manager - US & International Programs
Research Services Office
University of Toronto
McMurrich Building, 3rd floor
12 Queen's Park Crescent West
Toronto, ON M5S 1S8
Phone: 416-978-7118 / Fax: 416-971-2010
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