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2024 End Diabetes Awards

Diabetes Canada is proud to be a leading supporter of diabetes research in Canada. End Diabetes Awards fund research to enhance our understanding of diabetes and its prevention, treatment, management, and cure. Diabetes Canada accepts funding proposals from all four pillars of health research, to ensure that we are funding the best in biomedical, clinical, health services, and/or population health research towards the vision of a world free of the effects of diabetes.

Objectives

• To support the discovery of the biomedical, clinical, health services, and/or population health factors that lead to the onset and progression of all types of diabetes and related complications.
• To develop solutions aimed at the prevention, management, and finding a cure(s) for diabetes and its complications. 
• To address challenges in diabetes health services, and design and implement solutions that improve healthcare delivery, health policies, and access to care for all communities and populations affected by diabetes.

Learn more about the types of research that Diabetes Canada funds here.

Funding

New in 2024, in response to applicant feedback Diabetes Canada is increasing the funding available per award. Applicants can request up to $150,000 per year for 3 years for a total of $450,000 per grant. Diabetes Canada will award approximately $6 million through the 2024 End Diabetes Awards.

Eligibility

The Nominated Principal Applicant must be an independent researcher. The Nominated Principal Applicant and Co-Applicant(s) must have an academic or research appointment with an eligible Canadian institution.

Nominated Principal Applicants are only eligible to hold one End Diabetes Award at any time. If a previous End Diabetes Award will be completed and the funds fully spent by December 2024, you can apply for a 2024 End Diabetes Award. If a previous Award is still underway or will require a no cost extension into 2025, you are not eligible. Partnered grants awarded through another funder are not included in this limit.

Awards Guildelines

Please review the 2024 End Diabetes Awards Guide before applying. This guide includes full details on the award being offered, including eligibility and assessment criteria, the application process, application and award policies, and review process and evaluation.

How to Apply

Application submission will be available online through ResearchNet at the beginning of April. ResearchNet is a secure internet portal which allows the applicant to electronically submit grant applications and obtain funding-related information.
Please note, Diabetes Canada reserves the right to reject incomplete applications without appeal. It is the responsibility of the applicant to ensure the application is complete prior to submission.

Application Components

Additional information for each application section will be available at the beginning of April on ResearchNet and in the 2024 End Diabetes Awards guidelines.

• Lay title and lay summary (300 words max.)
• Roles and responsibilities of Nominated Principal Applicant and Co-Applicant(s) (1 page each)
• Research proposal (5 pages max.)
• Research proposal appendix - relevant tables, charts, figures, photographs, and accompanying legends (5 pages max.)
• Summary of research proposal (1 page max.)
• Plan for people with diabetes lived experience engagement, and knowledge mobilization (500 words max.)
• Impact for people affected by diabetes (250 words max.)
• Summary of Progress - Renewal applications: summarize progress under your most recent Diabetes Canada grant; New application submissions: summarize any previous work relevant to this proposal (1 page max.)
• Response to Reviewers - for resubmissions only (2 pages max.)
• Budget Information (2 pages max.)
• Diabetes Canada Academic Common CV and supporting Contribution and Publication documents
• Other optional application materials include: Letters of collaboration and support, relevant publications, questionnaires and consent forms, etc.

Review Process and Evaluation

Each application goes through a rigorous review process. A multidisciplinary review panel, consisting of scientific and clinical experts in the diabetes field, along with lived experience in diabetes will be assembled. Funding decisions are made based on the review process and the expert recommendations of Diabetes Canada’s National Research Council (NRC).

Timelines

• Competition launches (application available on ResearchNet): Beginning of April, 2024
• Application submission deadline: June 7, 2024, 8:00pm EDT.
• Peer-review period: July–November 2024
• Notification of funding decisions: December 2024
• Funding begins: January 2025

2024 Research Collaboration Support

New funding opportunity! Researcher Collaboration Grants support researcher-led activities that foster sharing of ideas and development of new knowledge and solutions. These activities could include: meetings, networking events, lecture series, or training sessions.

Objectives

The objective of the Research Collaborations Grants are:

• To support investigator or network-initiated collaboration activities to bring researchers together.
• To support collaboration among researchers, and between researchers and the broader diabetes stakeholder community (including people with lived experience).
• To foster sharing of research ideas and development of new knowledge and solutions.

Funding

Applicants can request between $3,000 and $20,000 per research collaboration activity. Diabetes Canada will award $100,000 through this program in 2024.

Eligibility

The Nominated Principal Applicant must be a researcher. The Nominated Principal Applicant and Co-Applicant(s) must have an academic or research appointment with an eligible Canadian institution. The Nominated Principal Applicant can only apply once per year but can be a Co-Applicant on more than one application.
This funding initiative will support collaboration activities that are diabetes-focused and include a broad audience, events for one institution are not eligible.

How to Apply

This funding initiative is aimed at supporting researcher-led research collaboration activities. Review the 2024 Research Collaboration Program Guide for full details on the grant being offered, including eligibility and assessment criteria, grant policies, and the application requirements.

Application submissions are made by responding to the questions in the 2024 Research Collaboration Grant Application Form, and submitting this as a single PDF file attachment to research@diabetes.ca. All submissions must follow this application form template and provide all the information requested.

Applications can be submitted to support research collaboration initiatives up to one year in advance of the planned event start date. The applications will be reviewed quarterly by Diabetes Canada’s National Research Council.

Application Components

• Roles and responsibilities of Nominated Principal Applicant and Co-Applicant(s) (1 page total)
• Collaboration Activity/Event Name
• Describe the Collaboration Activity (1-2 pages)
• Describe collaboration group/audience (250 words max.)
• Budget (1 page max.)

Review Process and Evaluation

All applications determined to be eligible will be reviewed by Diabetes Canada’s National Research Council. The NRC will conduct a thorough review and score the application based on rationale and impact.

Timelines

• Competition launches (application available): Beginning of April, 2024
• Application submission deadlines: Quarterly in 2024 - April 22, June 1, July 18, October 10
• Notification of funding decisions: approximately one month following application deadlines
• Funding begins: as required in application

Upcoming

Research Trainee Awards

Diabetes Canada intends to offer trainee funding beginning in 2025. This program will support the research strategy by strengthening capacity to conduct relevant and impactful diabetes research. The stage of trainee and type of support will be shared when the program is closer to launching.

Diabetes Impact Funds

Diabetes Canada intends to offer larger grants focused on priority research topics. This program will support the research strategy by advancing knowledge and solutions that address the issues and challenges identified by the diabetes community. More information will be shared when the program is closer to launching.
 

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Diabetes Canada Chair in Diabetes Management

The Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, at Western University, is inviting applications for the position of Diabetes Canada Chair in Diabetes Management. Full details can be found here.

Team Grants: Embracing Diversity to Achieve Precision and Health Equity

This funding opportunity is led by the CIHR Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes, and Diabetes Canada is a funding partner. Diabetes Canada is providing $1,000,000 in total over 5 years to co-fund two (2) applications. This funding opportunity aims to inspire a paradigm shift in health research whereby biological, behavioural, social and environmental diversity and structural determinants of health are considered and integrated. This approach will lead to a better understanding of how individuals stay healthy and help develop effective interventions and policies to improve the health of all people in Canada.

Learn more here.