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Personalized Health Catalyst Grants

Information Webinar:
Friday January 27, 2017  
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET

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The purpose of the Personalized Health Catalyst Grant funding opportunity is to support researchers to maximize and leverage previous collaborative investments in personalized medicine, e-health and data platforms by driving evidence-based implementation of personalized health solutions that can contribute to more cost-effective and sustainable health care. 

Objectives:
The specific objectives of this Funding Opportunity are to:

• Optimize patient empowerment  in personalized health care approaches;
• Develop data integration and analysis tools that will optimize personalized health interventions;
• Assess the value of personalized health care for effective implementation and delivery.
• Increase researcher awareness about the importance of integrating sex- and gender-based analysis in assessing relative costs and benefits.

Research Areas:
This Funding Opportunity will support projects relevant to the following three identified priority areas:

• Development of novel e-health apps in the field of personalized medicine in partnership with a health information technology vendor for end-users to improve patient empowerment and facilitate shared decision-making.
• The development of predictive analytic models that can stratify patients by expected outcome and risk; and
• Identification of sex-drug-gene relationships associated with potential harm and benefit.

Funds Available:
The total amount available for this Funding Opportunity is $8,200,000 enough to fund approximately 41 grants. This amount may increase if additional funding partners participate. The maximum amount per grant is $100,000 per year for over a period of up to 2 years. Mitacs and CIHR are partnering together to provide additional funding and training for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in personalized health projects.

Important Dates:
Registration deadline: February 14, 2017
Application deadline: June 13, 2017
Funding start date: September 1, 2017

Contact information :
For more information please contact: 
613-954-1968 or support@cihr-irsc.gc.ca