Research Western
Funding Opportunites - Research
Further details regarding this announcement can be found at:
http://www.chairs.gc.ca/web/program/nominate_e.asp
Sponsor/Award: CANADA RESEARCH CHAIRS - TIER II CIHR CHAIR - 2009 FALL COMPETITION

Grant Amount: $100,000 ANNUALLY FOR FIVE YRS
Deadline: Dean's: Nov 03, 2009
Internal: Nov 10, 2009
Sponsor's: Nov 17, 2009

Subject Areas: Health Research, Medical
Description:

This Program offers the opportunity to nominate outstanding researchers for senior professorships to further the institution's overall research priorities & enable them to maximize their contributions as centres of research & research training.

Nominees for Tier 2 positions are intended to be emerging scholars. They must be assistant or associate professors, or possess the necessary qualifications to be appointed at these levels. Universities must justify nominating to a Tier 2 Chair a professor or a researcher who is more than ten years from the highest degree at the time of nomination. Tier 2 nominees should be excellent emerging researchers who have demonstrated particular research creativity and have demonstrated the potential to achieve international recognition in their fields in the next five to ten years.

Application Details:

Nominee must be outstanding researchers having made a major impact in their fields; be recognized internationally as leaders in their fields; have superior records of attracting and supervising graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.

The program follows a peer-review process governed by the College of Reviewers and the Interdisciplinary Adjudication Committee. Forms must be completed and submitted on the CRC website. Please contact RDS for more details.

INDIRECT COSTS MUST NOT BE LEVIED ON THIS PROGRAM

NOTE: Letters of Intent and Full Applications are to be processed through Research Development Services for institutional signatures, and are to be accompanied by a completed RDAF form (bearing applicant, Chair and Dean signatures). Requests for Institutional signatures should be received no less than 3 days prior to the posted Sponsor deadline.
Western Contacts:

Sponsor Contacts:

TERRY.CAMPBELL@CHAIRS.GC.CA
350 ALBERT STREET
PO BOX 1610
OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada