the ams postdoctoral fellowship provides support to promising researchers at a pivotal time in their careers. candidates should be embarking on a period of full-time post-phd degree studies and wish to add to their experience by engaging in research in canada or abroad. the fellowships are intended for emerging scholars to complete work already started on projects featuring the study, analysis, and interpretation of past practices, philosophies, and/or epistemologies related to human health, health care and/or disease, or the education of health professionals, or to begin a new project in the field.

the project grant program supports small-budget proposals for research projects in the history of medicine and allied disciplines such as science and technology studies, sociology, anthropology, and classics. projects must strive to advance the history of health, healthcare and disease, or the education of health professionals.

our grants support and encourage legal writing that is of value to canadian lawyers, notaries and judges in their day-to-day work in the law and in the administration of justice. our grants are generally in amounts greater than $5,000 and less than or equal to $10,000.

eureka clusters celtic‑next, eurogia, itea4, smart and xecs have launched a call for proposals for joint research and development (r&d) projects focussed on sustainable industry with the sub‑topics green information and communications technology (ict) and space‑earth‑ocean integrated systems.

participating countries include austria, belgium (brussels and flanders), canada, denmark, finland, hungary, ireland, luxembourg, portugal, singapore, south africa, south korea, spain, sweden, turkey, and the united kingdom.

please contact jill sherman, international research facilitator at intl.research@lakeheadu.ca for more information.

the specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to:

• establish a multi-stakeholder pediatric cancer consortium which covers the cancer control continuum from prevention to diagnosis, treatment to survivorship that encompasses the breadth of stakeholders and knowledge-users with a transparent, inclusive multi-jurisdictional recruitment and membership process, meaningful engagement with partners and innovative international research collaborations.
• advance pediatric cancer research through platforms and projects in high priority areas.
• improve the research pipeline for the development and further access to drugs for children affected by cancer and their families, by working in the context of regulatory frameworks (health canada) for drug approval processes and, with engagement of people with lived/living experience (pwle), influencing system improvements through research and knowledge mobilization. 
• advance equitable access to new and promising therapies regardless of geography, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status.
• build capacity for the next generation of pediatric cancer researchers through training and mentorship opportunities embedded and interconnected across the consortium and capacity for people with lived and living experience to engage meaningfully in the research ecosystem.
• maximize research impact and knowledge mobilization within and beyond the consortium to help ensure evidence is integrated in and used to inform health policy, decision making and planning.

to further protect and restore the great lakes, the ontario government is investing $1.9 million in the second round of funding to support local projects that have a positive environmental impact on the great lakes, with an emphasis on projects that also have social and/or economic benefits for their communities.  

the great lakes local action fund will provide funding for individual projects to protect and restore coastal, shoreline and nearshore areas of the great lakes and their connecting rivers. these project may be led by groups such as:

• community-based organizations
• environmental non-profits
• indigenous communities
• small businesses
• conservation authorities
• municipalities

this program will help community projects and actions to make direct environmental improvements and help the great lakes community to take local action to restore and reconnect with these vital waterways.

the petroleum research fund is an endowed fund, managed by the american chemical society that supports fundamental research directly related to petroleum or fossil fuels at nonprofit institutions (generally colleges and universities) in the united states and other countries.

acs petroleum research fund (acs prf) grants are intended as seed money, to enable an investigator to initiate a new research direction. the investigator should not have published or received financial support from another funding agency for the proposed research. also, proposals that the acs prf committee feels are a logical extension of an investigator’s previous research may be denied as “not a new direction.”

since the first acs prf grants were approved in 1953, several grant programs have evolved to serve segments of the scientific community, including “new investigator” grants and grants to support researchers in departments that do not award doctoral degrees.

scope of the fund

proposals must be for fundamental research in “the petroleum field,” which is defined in our founding document as “petroleum, natural gas, coal, shale, tar sands and like materials.” fundamental research encompasses the properties of these materials, whereas the petroleum industry undertakes “applied research,” which is outside the scope of acs prf.

the next submission window will be from monday, february 14, 2022 to friday, march 11, 2022 and the submitted proposals will be considered at the october 2022 acs prf committee meeting.

•  please contact jill sherman, international research facilitator, if this opportunity is of interest at intl.research@lakeheadu.ca

the chan zuckerberg initiative invites applications from collaborative teams bringing together patient-led rare disease organizations and research teams for 4-year research projects aimed at advancing our understanding of the fundamental science of rare diseases. the patient-partnered collaborations for rare neurodegenerative disease rfa aims to advance the understanding of the pathophysiology and mechanistic underpinnings of rare neurodegenerative and neurological disorders.

•  please contact jill sherman, international research facilitator, if this opportunity is of interest at intl.research@lakeheadu.ca

the chan zuckerberg initiative invites applications from collaborative teams bringing together patient-led rare disease organizations and research teams for 4-year research projects aimed at advancing our understanding of the fundamental science of rare diseases. the patient-partnered collaborations for single-cell analysis of rare inflammatory pediatric disease rfa aims to support the application of single-cell biology methods to rare inflammatory pediatric diseases that will clarify cellular mechanisms of disease, understand disease heterogeneity, and improve biomarker identification or diagnostics.

•  please contact jill sherman, international research facilitator, if this opportunity is of interest at intl.research@lakeheadu.ca