the summer program in aging (spa) is the institute of aging’s (ia) flagship training program. it aims to provide graduate 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 and postdoctoral fellows involved in aging research with a program of advanced training that crosses disciplines, sectors, institutions, and geography. the program will bring together approximately 40 research trainees and numerous academic mentors to participate in interactive learning sessions. the focus of spa 2021 is on longitudinal studies in aging, and will be led by dr. parminder raina, scientific director for the mcmaster institute for research on aging (mira).

longitudinal population-based studies of aging have established scientific value for evaluating extrinsic and intrinsic exposures in relation to healthy aging, psychosocial, and disease outcomes. the prospective cohort design is unique in its ability to measure the occurrence of exposure before the onset of the outcome, and to evaluate numerous exposures and outcomes in a single study. longitudinal cohorts like the canadian longitudinal study on aging (clsa) are instrumental in spurring mechanistic and translational research activities. the epidemiologic transition over the last century has resulted in a shift in disease burden from infectious diseases towards morbidity and mortality due to chronic diseases. this, coupled with low infant mortality rates, low fertility rates, and increasing life expectancies, has resulted in health and social care debates across the developed world that require quality population-based longitudinal data to not only address the needs of the current aged population but to provide ongoing insight into the needs and requirements of future aging cohorts.

objectives

the specific objective of this funding opportunity is:

• to provide entry for trainees to the spa 2021 program.

he objectives of the grant are:

• to promote the creation of new knowledge that is relevant to communities affected by hiv and other stbbi in canada;
• to promote the dissemination of new knowledge and uptake of evidence into action to enhance the community response to the hiv epidemic and other stbbi;
• to develop partnerships between researchers and affected communities;
• to build capacity in the knowledge user community to engage in research and use evidence in their everyday business;
• to build the next generation of hiv/aids and other stbbi cbr researchers through meaningful engagement of trainees in high quality cbr projects; and
• to reduce the incidence of new hiv infections and/or other stbbi in high-risk groups by focusing research on prevention efforts.

for examples, applicants can visit cihr's funding decisions web site to search for projects previously funded under a cihr hiv/aids and stbbi cbr operating grant competition.

the intersection of space-based and terrestrial food production

food is a critical component of all human space exploration missions; but even more so for future missions to the moon and mars. as space missions increase in duration and extend further away from earth there is a need to reduce the resupply of food from earth while at the same time provide astronauts enjoyable, yet nutritious foods, to ensure they remain at their physical and psychological best. innovative food systems that maximize safe and nutritious food outputs, with minimal inputs, will be key for sustainable human presence on the lunar surface and for future missions to mars.

how can food production innovations benefit both people on earth and astronauts in space?

food security is a significant chronic challenge on earth in urban, rural, northern and remote communities, and within “harsh” environments. through this challenge, innovators will develop compact and novel advanced food production solutions that have the potential to further enhance local production, reduce food supply chain shortages, and reduce the impact on the resources needed for food production in extreme environments, disaster-affected areas and resource-scarce regions.

the deep space food challenge is a joint prize competition launched in parallel by the canadian space agency (csa), the national aeronautics and the space administration (nasa) centennial challenges program, and their allied organization, the methuselah foundation.

international collaboration has been key to the success of countless space missions. this challenge represents a first of its kind collaboration between csa and nasa in the organization of a prize competition to support the space policies of the government of canada and the united states government while having broader terrestrial benefits.

the canadian component of the deep space food challenge is intended to incentivize canadian innovators to advance food production technologies to support long-duration missions in space and to improve the accessibility of nutritious food across canada, including the north.

the challenge

the deep space food challenge seeks to create novel food production technologies or systems that require minimal inputs and maximize safe, nutritious, and palatable food outputs for long-duration space missions, and which have potential to benefit people on earth.

phases

the deep space food challenge is a stage-gated challenge and is expected to be comprised of three phases:

• phase 1: design report – challenge launched on january 12, 2021. applications are open until july 30, 2021. teams will provide a detailed explanation of a design for a novel food production technology that meets the challenge goals and performance criteria.
• phase 2: kitchen demonstration – beginning in fall 2021, semi-finalists selected in phase 1 will move on to phase 2, where they will need to build a food production technology prototype (equivalent to a trl 4) and have their prototype take part in a kitchen-level demonstration with samples of food outputs. those who are successful in this phase will move on as a finalist in phase 3.
  note: new interested applicants may be able to apply and participate directly in phase 2. further details will be provided prior to the launch of phase 2.
• phase 3: full system demonstration – at this stage, selected finalists will have 12-18 months to build a full-scale food production technology and demonstrate the technology at an appropriate facility, and will be competing to be the grand prize winner of the challenge.
• canadian grand prize winner for the deep space food challenge – announced in spring 2024.

for u.s. and other international applicants, note that at this time, nasa has only released official rules for phase 1. for additional details on the nasa-managed competition, visit deepspacefoodchallenge.org.

neurodegenerative diseases are debilitating and largely untreatable conditions that are strongly linked with age. worldwide, there are estimated to be 47 million people suffering from alzheimer’s disease and related disorders, the most common class of neurodegenerative diseases. this figure is expected to double every 20 years as the population ages. the total direct and informal care costs of alzheimer’s, parkinson’s and related disorders are in the range of €105-160 billion per year across the european union and about us$ one trillion worldwide. existing treatments for neurodegenerative diseases are limited in effect and mainly address the symptoms rather than the cause or the progressive course. with this in mind, jpnd has identified a pressing need for investment aimed at enabling research projects on linking pre-diagnosis disturbances of physiological systems to neurodegenerative diseases.

the development of efficient treatments for most neurodegenerative disease is hindered by the fact that their detection intervenes at late stages in which the integrity of the nervous tissue is very compromised. poorly characterised early physiological disturbances are known to appear before unambiguous symptoms of each neurodegenerative disease are detected. these changes may include, among others, disruption of sleep, olfaction, hearing, vision, metabolic factors as well as social engagement. all these signs have the potential to be used as early indicators of later diseases, and in most cases have the advantage that they are measurable in natural everyday life environments. since some of these changes are very likely early indicators of nervous system dysfunction, the identification of the circuits and molecular pathways being affected might reveal promising targets for early interventions and therapies for neurodegenerative diseases.

this transnational call invites proposals for ambitious, innovative, multinational and multidisciplinary collaborative research projects with a view to promoting research aimed at the detection, measurement and understanding of early disease indicators related to neurodegenerative diseases, with potential for the development of new diagnostics or interventions.

funding: the total made available for this call is about 19 million euros.

call for nominations

nomination deadline: april 15, 2021, 8:00 p.m. (et)

the synergy awards for innovation honour outstanding research and development (r&d) partnerships between a university or college and industry, in the natural sciences and engineering. since 1995, the awards have showcased the value of pooling canadian research excellence and canadian industrial expertise to address challenges that provide tangible benefits to canada.

synergy awards include three categories for universities and one category for colleges, to highlight the impact and lasting benefits of their applied r&d collaborations with industrial partners.

winners of the synergy awards must show effective use of human, technical and financial resources, leading to tangible commercial and, where applicable, additional social or environmental benefits with their industrial partners. universities must demonstrate a sustained partnership, while colleges may focus on the impact of near-term applied research.

synergy awards are an opportunity to show the world what canadian ingenuity and collaboration can accomplish.

eligibility

the nominated partnership must be in the natural sciences and/or engineering, between a canadian university professor or group of professors, or a canadian college, and a canadian-based company or companies with commercial activities in canada, such as r&d and/or manufacturing. the guidelines for organizations participating in research partnerships should be consulted to determine the eligibility of the industrial partner(s). to be eligible, the partnering organization(s) must be at arm’s length from the nominee and co-nominee(s). refer to the conflict of interest guidelines for partner organizations for more details.

an individual, team of individuals or a college may be nominated for the synergy awards and other major nserc prizes in the same year but can receive only one such prize in a given year. there is no limit to the number of nominations for the synergy awards that a university or college can put forward in a given competition.

categories

nominations can be made in one of four categories:

for universities

• small and medium-sized companies: a partnership with a single company with less than 500 employees globally.
• large companies: a partnership with a single company with 500 employees or more.
• two or more companies: a partnership with two or more companies, of any size, or a consortium of companies

if you are interested in being nominated for this award, please contact dr. batia stolar, associate vice-president, research & graduate studies, at avp.research@lakeheadu.ca

under the next generation network program (ngnp), cengn, canada’s centre of excellence in next generation networks, is looking to fund innovative projects across northern ontario that demonstrate technology solutions that offer flexible, lower cost, higher performance residential broadband access for northern ontario communities. this program is designed to prove new technology approaches that can significantly improve business cases or new business models, be used to promote new field-proven innovations from technology applicants, offer an improved level of broadband access to unserved communities, develop new residential broadband ecosystems, and to share technical solutions with other northern ontario communities looking for access or improvements to residential broadband solutions in their community.

cengn will be providing funding for individual projects from its northern ontario residential broadband program as part of the ngnp. cengn is seeking technologies that address the requirement for specific technical problem statements that make it challenging to get broadband access to residences within northern ontario communities. with the increasing demand for on-line municipal services, email communications, on-line cultural development, social media, distance learning, tele-medicine, remote medical monitoring, on-line homework/assignment submission for 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 , support for on-line business, and increasing need for on-line options to work from home, there is urgent need for high-performance, low-latency residential broadband access in northern ontario communities.

in order to provide an environment to demonstrate the effectiveness of new residential broadband technology solutions, cengn will be encouraging community expression of interest (eoi) responses from northern ontario communities who are interested in hosting a technology project in their community. from the community eoi responses, at least one community will be selected for this project. the project will be designed to prove that a technology solution can be installed and tested while demonstrating a significantly improved level of residential broadband service to the community. this project will also seek to demonstrate a marked improvement in the business case for residential broadband access improvements for the community.

cengn will also be encouraging eoi responses from technology company applicants who are interested in providing equipment, technology, and support services to be used in the live 3 – 6 month monitored technology project. from the technology eoi responses, a number of candidate technology companies will be selected for each northern ontario residential broadband project to propose a technology solution that can be installed and tested to provide a significantly improved level of residential broadband service for the selected host community.

the purpose of the project will not only be to demonstrate a significant performance level improvement in residential broadband access in residences, but also to provide a well-tested, monitored, and documented implementation, that can be promoted and shared with other communities by the technology applicant(s), the community, and cengn. it is key that the proposed project infrastructure will be scalable, and that the technology applicant is willing to work with the host community, and any necessary local partners, to come up with a plan to extend or expand the project infrastructure to completely meet the wider residential broadband needs of the community following the project’s successful completion.

universities may participate in this program as a partner.

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.”

the faisal bin fahad global award for sport research supports rigorous, intellectually ambitious and technically sound research that is relevant to the most pressing questions and compelling opportunities in sports. the award seeks to financially support scholarly work by phd qualified researchers to develop new foundational knowledge, or build upon existing knowledge, that may have a lasting impact on the sports discourse in the context of saudi arabia.

the award allows phd qualified researchers to apply for funding of $80’000 usd to $120’000 usd to support their research project. a total of $1 million usd will be awarded.