Research Western
Funding Opportunites - Research
Further details regarding this announcement can be found at:
http://hsf.ca/research/en/emerging-research-leaders-initiative
Sponsor/Award: HEART & STROKE FOUNDATION CANADA - ERLI - EMERGING RESEARCH LEADERS INITIATIVE - 2015 FALL COMPETITION

Grant Amount: $50K/YR (MAX $150K FOR 3 YRS)
Deadline: Dean's: Contact your Faculty Research Office for deadline details.
Internal: Sep 07, 2015
Sponsor's: Sep 14, 2015

Subject Areas: Cardiology
Description:

The Emerging Research Leaders Initiative (ERLI) is an establishment grant program for researchers at the transition stage from post-doctoral fellow to early professional career stage in the areas of cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, and/or respiratory health research. This initiative aims to support successful early career launch of new investigators. Through this initiative, partners will provide establishment grant funds that will create a set of conditions conducive to the successful career launch of emerging research leaders in the cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, and/or respiratory health research domains. Establishment grant programs are intended to assist new investigators in establishing independent health research programs and achieving the research productivity necessary to obtain major funding from national and other external granting agencies.

The Emerging Research Leaders Initiative (ERLI) is an establishment grant program for researchers at the transition stage from post-doctoral fellow to early professional career stage in the areas of cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, and/or respiratory health research. This initiative aims to support successful early career launch of new investigators. Through this initiative, partners will provide establishment grant funds that will create a set of conditions conducive to the successful career launch of emerging research leaders in the cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, and/or respiratory health research domains. This support may be provided for a maximum of three (3) years. A limited number of ERLI grants will be supported by the HSF and the CLA at any given time. ERLI funds may only be used to support research conducted in Canada. All grants become tenable July 1 following announcement of the competition results.

Application Details:

At the time of submission, no more than five (5) years may have passed since the date of the first faculty appointment at the Assistant or Clinical Assistant Professor level or equivalent. This would include Adjunct positions in a research track for which the applicant is eligible to write a Grant-in-Aid/operating grant (as a Principal Investigator).

All applications for the Emerging Research Leaders Initiative (ERLI) program (including those to the CLA) must be post-marked/courier stamped no later than September 14, 2015 to the following address: Research Department Heart and Stroke Foundation 222 Queen Street, Suite 1402 Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5V9 A letter, co-signed by the Dean and Department Head (or institutional equivalents), must be submitted confirming institutional commitment to meet the following conditions for the duration of the grant.

INDIRECT COSTS ARE NOT LEVIED ON THIS PROGRAM

NOTE: All Letters of Intent and Full Applications must be processed through Research Development & Services for institutional approval. Requests for Institutional approvals should be received no less than 3 days prior to the posted Sponsor deadline. A ROLA Proposal (bearing applicant, Chair and Dean electronic approvals) is required for each submission.
Western Contacts: Moxey,Laura

Sponsor Contacts:

CAROLINE EVANS : CEVANS@HSF.CA
1402-222 Queen Street
OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada
613 241-4361