News and Announcements
Notification of Intent (NOI) for 2012 SSHRC Insight Grant Competition
The Notification of Intent (NOI) to apply for an Insight Grant is now mandatory. NOIs must be submitted directly by the applicants to SSHRC via the online system by August 15th, 2012. An applicant who has not submitted an NOI by this date will be ineligible to submit the full application in the October 2012 competition.
In addition to basic information, an applicant must submit a one-page Summary of the Proposed Research. This Summary must include the objectives of the research, the proposed methodology and the anticipated significance and impacts of the proposed research. The NOI form will be available on SSHRC's website by mid-June.
CIHR Site Visit
Memorial University of Newfoundland is very pleased to host Dr. Jane Aubin, Chief Scientific Officer and Vice-President (Research) of CIHR, on Wednesday, March 28th, 2012 for a CIHR Town Hall to discuss the Open Suite of Programs and Peer Review reforms and to seek feedback and exchange on CIHR's current thinking. For more information on the proposed reforms, please visit the website detailing the proposal process.
The March 28th Town Hall will be held in the Faculty of Medicine’s Lecture Theatre B, 1st Floor Health Sciences Centre (HSC) from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
I hope you can attend this session. Your awareness of these changes and your input into this discussion is vitally important. Please RSVP to Jan Hopkins by March 21st, 2012.
Access to Mutant Mouse Lines for Research
The NorCOMM2 project is notifying Canadian researchers about the opportunity to nominate genes for mutant mouse line production and phenotyping. Do you have one or more gene candidates for disease, development, or drug target validation for which you would like to get a mouse model, but don't yet have enough data to write that grant proposal? Do you need more information about the phenotypic consequences of gene dysfunction? If so, then the NorCOMM2 project may be able to help. NorCOMM2 is part of the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium, a program aimed at generating and phenotyping knock-out mouse lines derived from the International Knockout Mouse Consortium ES cell resource. NorCOMM2 aims to generate and phenotype 150 mouse lines over the next 3 years and we want to know what genes are of greatest interest to Canadian researchers to assist us with our selection process. All mouse lines generated as part of the NorCOMM2 project will be available for distribution from the Canadian Mouse Mutant Repository as soon as they are produced. Phenotype data will be posted publicly as soon as it has undergone internal quality control. Please go to http://www.norcomm2.org to learn more about the NorCOMM2 project and nominate your gene(s) of interest.
