Funding, News and Announcements

The European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases (EJP RD) has launched a joint transnational call for rare diseases research projects (JTC 2020) focused on “Pre-clinical Research to Develop Effective Therapies for Rare Diseases”. This is an international component of the CIHR Personalized Health Initiative.

Eligibility for Canadian applicants: The Canadian applicant must be a researcher who, at the time of application, has held a full time, independent research appointment, for a period of 0 to 5 years (60 months).

CIHR Funding component: CAD 150,000 per year per project, over 3 years.

More details are available on the European Joint Programme – Rare Diseases website. Dal researchers are reminded to review the Country and Region-Specific Guidelines for Canada.

Researchers interested in applying should contact ORS (shelley.brown@dal.ca). 

Deadlines

Internal

Pre-proposals - February 11, 2020 at 4:30pm

Funder

Pre-proposals - February 18, 2020 at 2pm CET (9am AST)

Invitation to full proposal - Late April 2020

Full proposal submission deadline - June 16, 2020 at 2pm CET (9am AST)