Funding Competitions
Thanks to the generous backing from the network’s public, academic, and industry partners, CanVECTOR offers four primary funding streams through yearly competitions.
Learn more about each of the funding streams:
Project Funding
Purpose
The purpose of the Pilot Study Funding competition is to build research capacity related to VTE and to enable CanVECTOR scientists and research teams to collect pilot data that will inform the conduct of larger multi-centre clinical trials and increase the ability to attract external peer-reviewed funding.
Competitions
The Pilot Study Funding competition is held annually in the fall and administered by the network’s Clinical Trials platform.
Status: Not accepting applications.
Purpose
Research start-up funding is intended to provide operating funds to support individual trainees’ research activities. These funds are intended to help trainees to achieve their research objectives. To this end, the funds may be used for start-up operating funds for a research project or preliminary/pilot work to strengthen their research, including services, materials, or supplies.
Competitions
The Research Start-up Awards competition is held annually in the fall and administrated by the network’s Training & Mentoring platform.
Status: Not accepting applications.
Salary Funding (Research Training Awards)
Purpose
The purpose of the CanVECTOR Research Training Awards: Fellowship Stream is to provide financial support for highly qualified, promising fellows to allow them to pursue research training in thromboembolism at a Canadian centre.
The area of training must:
- align with CanVECTOR priorities,
- be research focused, and
- be supervised by a CanVECTOR member
Eligible candidates: MDs that aim to become clinician scientists or clinician investigators in venous thromboembolism (VTE).
Competitions
The Fellowship Awards competition is held annually in the fall and administrated by the network’s Training & Mentoring platform.
Status: Applications closed.
Purpose
The purpose of the CanVECTOR Research Training Awards: Studentship Stream is to provide financial support for highly qualified, promising graduate students to allow them to pursue research training in thromboembolism at a Canadian centre.
The area of training must:
- align with CanVECTOR priorities
- be research focused
- be supervised by a CanVECTOR member
Eligible candidates: trainees enrolled in an MSc or PhD program who are interested in conducting basic science or translational VTE-focused research.
Competitions
The Studentship Awards competition is held annually in the spring and administrated by the network’s Basic & Translational Science platform.
Status: Not accepting applications.