CIHRs 13 Institutes

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CIHRs 13 Institutes
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Four Research Pillars of CIHR

• Biomedical
• Clinical
• Health services and health systems
• Health of populations, societal and cultural
  dimensions of health, and environmental
  influences on health
• (also focus knowledge translation ethics)

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CIHR FUNDING

• Operating Team Grants (50)
• Salary Awards (25)
• Strategic Initiatives-RFAs (25)
• (mostly Institute-based eg nanomedicine,obesit
  y)

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CIHR SALARY AWARDS

• Investigators awards
• Individual Studentships Fellowships
• PhD level 25,000 per year/4 years
• PDFs 40,000 per year/3 years
• Also awards to support clinicians-residents
  involved in research

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Canada CIHR NEW AWARDS

• Canada Studentship Awards
• (PhD level 30,000-35,000 per year for up to
  4 years)
• Federal Budget Feb 08
• Vaniers Studentship Awards
• PhD level 50,000-60,000 per year for 4
  years. Up to 400 of them-International

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Strategic Training Initiativein Health Research
Program

• The Strategic Training Initiative in Health
  Research (STIHR) was implemented by CIHR as a way
  for Canada to increase its competitiveness
  internationally in attracting new, bright,
  creative research talent and to ensure innovation
  and excellence in the next generation of Canadian
  health research training programs.

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STIHR Program Objectives

• Increase the capacity of the Canadian health
  research community, including areas where it can
  be demonstrated that there is a need to develop
  capacity
• Enable recruitment and retention of highly
  qualified individuals from Canada and abroad to
  undertake health research training in Canada.
• Support the development of innovative, effective,
  transdisciplinary, and internationally
  competitive training programs.
• Engage new mentors and educators in the
  development and evolution of training strategies.
  

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STIHR Program Objectives

• Encourage programs that
• Embrace diverse research disciplines and
  methodological approaches to resolve major health
  issues and scientific challenges.
• Integrate training and discussion on the ethical
  conduct of research and related ethical issues.
• Develop and measure the individual's
  communication, teamwork, and leadership skills
  including  grant writing and peer review.
• Incorporate effective research strategies that
  translate knowledge into practice.
• For more info. visit http//www.cihr.ca/e/22174.h
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Strategic Training Initiativein Health Research

• First competition 2001
• CIHR central and Institutes supported
• 51 teams funded
• 8 of them related to INMHA
• 300K per year for 6 years
• Cross-pillars and multi-centres favoured

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Strategic Training Initiativein Health Research

• First Competition 2001-2002
• Teams related to INMHA
• Cameron (Waterloo) Tobacco Research
• De Koninck (Laval) Neurophysics Setting new
  frontiers in neurosciences with material
  sciences and photonics
• Fenster (UWO) Vascular and cerebrovascular
  transdisciplinary training program
• Houry (Toronto) Protein folding. Principles and
  diseases
• McGrath (Dalhousie) Pain in child health
• Reithmeier (Toronto) Structural biology of
  membrane proteins linked to disease
• Salter (Toronto) Pain research. From molecules to
  community
• Vincent (UBC) Neurobiology and behaviour

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Strategic Training Initiativein Health Research

• Second competition 2002
• Funded by each Institute
• INMHA received 15 LOI
• With internal and external (FRSQ, NAAR) external
  partners INMHA is associated to 10 successful
  applications
• Funding for six years started in April 2003

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Strategic Training Initiative in Health Research
Second Competition 2001-2002

• Antel (McGill) Integrated Training Program in
  basic and clinical aspects of
  neuroinflammation
• Chaudhuri (McGill) McGill integrative
  neurobehavioral training program focus on
  regenerative medicine and early life events
• Fombonne (McGill) Training program in autism
  research
• Goldner (UBC) Building capacity in mental health
  and addiction services and policy research
• Holden (Queens) Transdisciplinary
  inter-institute training program in autism
  spectrum disorders
• Kirmayer (McGill) Culture and mental health
  services
• Meaney (McGill) Genes, environment and health
  training program
• Mishara (UQAM) Formation interdisciplinaire en
  recherche sur le suicide et sa prévention
• Selby (Toronto) Tobacco use in special
  populations
• Wilson (York) CIHR strategic training program in
  vision research

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STIHR Current Competition

• December 2007 Opportunity Launched
• April 1, 2008 Letter of Intent Deadline (over
  185 LOIs received 25 related to INMHA)
• July 1, 2008 Anticipated notification of
  decision for Letter of Intent
• November 1, 2008 Full applications submitted
• March 2009 Anticipated notification of decision
  for full applications
• April 1, 2009 Anticipated start date.

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CIHR STHIR

• SOME
• EXAMPLES

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Settings new frontiers in Neuroscience with
Material Sciences and Photonics
OBJECTIVES To enhance the number of Highly
Qualified Personnel from the fields of Material
Sciences and Photonics with expertise in
Neuroscience to create a generation of
researchers with the ability to apply and develop
novel approaches derived from the fields of
Physics and Chemistry for the study of molecular
mechanisms in live neuronal cells.

• Combines expertise from three research centres
• Centre de recherche Université Laval
  Robert-Giffard (CRULRG), Laval
• Y. De Koninck, P. De Koninck, M. Deschênes, C.
  Gravel, A. Parent
• Centre dOptique, Photonique et Laser (COPL),
  Laval S.L. Chin, D. Côté, M. Piché, R. Vallée
• Centre for the Physics of Materials (CPM),
  McGill P. Grütter, B. Lennox, P. Wisemann

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Thematic and characteristics

• Scientific challenges
• Break the barriers set by the properties of light
  to detect, measure, manipulate and follow
  molecular events in living cells
• Design novel materials for molecular tracking in
  neurons
• Develop novel tools to measure and manipulate
  electrochemical events both at the single
  macromolecule level in isolated live nerve cells
  and in the intact whole brain.

Current enrolment 37 trainees, 27 graduates, 10
PDFs

• Special features
• Dual mentorship
• Projects presenting challenges/questions relevant
  to both the physical sciences and the biology
• Scale 12 PIs (2 X 6)-three research centres in
  two universities, relatively nearby
• Hands-on Summer Schools

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Impact on funding

• Strategic Research Training Program from the
  Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR
  1.8M)
• New Tools Grant from CIHR (300K)
• CIHR NET Grant Nanotools for Neuropharmacology
  (1.5M)
• Québec Ministry for Economic and Regional
  Development and Research (MDERR) (3.3M)
• Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI)(11.8
  M)
• International Human Frontier Science Program
  (HFSP) (1.0 M)
• Canadian Institute for Photonics Innovation (200
  K)
• Private donors (2.0 M)
• Several Projects in partnership with the National
  Institute of Optics (INO)
• Universities Research Centres
• Laval University
• McGill University
• Centre dOptique, Photonique et Laser (COPL)
• Centre de Recherche Université Laval
  Robert-Giffard (CRULRG)
• Centre for the Physics of Materials (CPM), McGill
  University

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Example of projects
Two-photon microscopy using an axicon
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Pascal Dufour
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Example of projects
Combining electrical recording with optical
recording deep within the tissue
Yoan LeChasseur
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Strategic Training ProgramPain in Child HealthA
Cross-Canada Research Training Consortium

• Principal Investigators
• Patrick McGrath, Ken Craig, Allen Finley,
  Celeste Johnston, Bonnie Stevens, Carl von Baeyer
• Research mentors
• 30 researchers
• Activities for Trainees in Pain in Child Health
• Visits to other labs
• Web based courses on pain
• Annual summer/fall institute
• International speakers series
• Newsletter/ listserv
• Trainee membership open to graduate students,
  clinical fellows, and senior undergraduate
  trainees, in any discipline

Universities
Health Centres
Other sponsors
www.dal.ca/pich/
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Unique features of PICH

• International PICH
• Most trainees supported by external awards
• High productivity of our trainees
• Monthly lab meetings

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International PICH

• Intense interest in PICH internationally
• From first Institute held in connection with
  International Forum on Pediatric Pain in NS
• Approach to MAYDAY to fund international trainees
• Funded for 3 years (39,900US per year)
• All privileges but no stipends
• USA, Australia, Belgium, Spain, England, Portugal

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External support

• 80 of our 49 active PICH trainees are externally
  supported
• Agencies include CIHR, Order of Nurses of
  Quebec, MSFHR, AstraZaneca, FQRSC, SSHRC,NIH,
  NSERC, Michael Smith Foundation, Bloorview
  Childrens Centre, Restracomp, CNS-NP

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Monthly lab meetings

• Lab meetings via Horizon Live
• Slides, audio, typed or oral questions
• Trainees present research
• Follow up discussion on email
• Discussant
• 25 presentations

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High productivity

• PICH trainees published
• 180 peer reviewed articles
• 85 other papers
• New collaborations developing
• Second generation PICHers
• Faculty members at York, U of T
• students are about to join PICH

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Behavior, Gene Environment Training Grant
Program

• Michael Meaney
• Douglas Hospital Research Center
• Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Mission

• The Gene, Environment and Health Training Program
  provides
• a sophisticated appreciation of the biological
  and social approaches required to form hypotheses
  that respect the complexity of development and
  the importance of multiple levels of analysis
• familiarity with techniques and analytical
  approaches to the study of gene X environment
  interactions
• state-of-the-art training in bioinformatics with
  large data sets derived from studies such as
  those using gene/protein arrays or neuroimaging

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Objectives

• Training of High Qualified Personnel which
  bridges biological and social sciences and
  establishes Canada as a world-leader in research
  that reflects an integrated approach to health
  science
• Contribute to the development of a culture of
  innovative, transdisciplinary research in Canada
  with training directed towards graduate student
  and post-doctoral fellows, as well as medical
  students/residents and allied health disciplines

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Background of Trainees

• Trainees coming from McGill University,
  University of Toronto, Université de Montreal,
  Carleton, Laval
• Trainees involved in Genetics, Zoology,
  Physiology, Psychology, Neuroscience, Biochemistry

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Currently funded Trainees

• 24 graduate students
• 8 Postdoctoral fellows
• 3 Foreign students
• Of the students funded, 5 have since obtained
  CIHR / FRSQ funding (20)

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Website

• www.bge.mcgill.ca

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Structure of Program

• Based at McGill, with International Visiting
  Faculty
• Administrative Committee, Coordinator, Advisory
  Board
• Students recruited through faculty advertising
• Students admitted to M.Sc. in psychiatry or other
  degree programs at university in Montreal
  (McGill, U de M, UQAM, Concordia

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Contents of Program

• McGill Summer Program in Social Cultural
  Psychiatry
• Psychiatric Epidemiology
• Cultural Psychiatry
• Qualitative Research Methods
• Quantitative Research Methods
• Community-Based Participatory Research

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Contents of Program

• Mentoring research supervision
• Weekly meetings
• Culture mental health services seminar
• Research team meetings (JGH, MCH, Douglas)
• Cultural Consultation Service

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Integrative Seminar

• Year 1
• Culture, race and ethnicity social capital
  social suffering
• Cultural competence culture in medicine
  psychiatry ethical issues in research
• Year 2
• Identity, community, and globalization
• Stigma and social integration ethical issues in
  clinical work
• Year 3
• Trauma resilience Refugees forced migration

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Research Projects

• Post-migration experiences of recent immigrant
  women from India and Pakistan
• Social support and belonging among Filipino
  immigrant adolescents in Montreal
• Culture and the clinical alliance with
  adolescents with conduct disorders
• Explanatory models of mental illness among Inuit
• Research methods for eliciting illness narratives
  in health research
• Multidimensional models of acculturation
• Explaining medically unexplained symptoms in
  primary care

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Interdisciplinarity

• Faculty
• anthropology, bioethics, family medicine,
  psychiatry, psychology, public health, social
  work, sociology
• Students
• anthropology, psychiatry, psychology, sociology

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Research Methods

• Training in the use of qualitative research
  methods in health services research
• Workshop on publication (use of lab meetings to
  mentor)
• Development of new course in psychiatry
  (postdoctoral fellows contribute discourse
  analysis, life history methods

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CIHR SUMMARY

• Multiple Salary awards to support trainees
  (BrainStar awards Web site-www.thebrain.mcgill.ca
  )
• Some focus on team training grants (STHIR)
• Open to International Students Fellows
• Current government aims to attract the very best