Applications Invited for Queen’s SARS CoV-2/COVID-19 Research Funding Competition 2020

About the Organization:

Queen’s University is highly-ranked in Canada for student experience, taking an inclusive approach and offering learning beyond the classroom. Their mission is to stimulate, enhance and facilitate ethical research and scholarship at Queen's by providing leadership, support and services to advance Queen's position as a research-intensive university, while raising awareness of the excellence of Queen's research and providing accountability to our stakeholders.

Queen’s SARS CoV-2/COVID-19 Research Funding Competition

The Queen’s SARS CoV-2/COVID-19 research funding competition is a $200,000 Vice-Principal (Research) initiative to fund and support research projects that will contribute to urgent efforts to accelerate the development, testing and implementation of medical or social countermeasures to mitigate the rapid spread of the SARS CoV-2 virus and its negative consequences on people and communities in Canada and globally.

To a large extent this opportunity mirrors the recent SARS CoV-2/COVID-19 funding opportunity available through CIHR and will support research across all disciplines: health sciences; natural sciences and engineering; and social sciences and humanities.

Eligible Applicants:

• The Principal Investigator must be Queen’s tenured, tenure-track, or clinical faculty with protected research time.
• Co-investigators must hold a faculty appointment at Queen’s.
• Other team members may be Queen’s tenured, tenure-track, or clinical faculty with protected research time, adjuncts, research associates, students, post-doctoral fellows, etc.

Funding: $10,000-$50,000 per project (total available is $200,000)

Assessment Criteria:

Two criteria are assessed as pass/fail:

• The proposed project is aligned with the objective of the competition.
• The proposed project is aligned with the selected countermeasure(s).

An additional four criteria are assessed equally (25% weight each):

• Effectiveness of the proposed approach (i.e., extent to which the approach is likely to lead to meeting the objectives of the proposed research).
• Ability of the project team to carry out the proposed research.
• Ability of the project team to marshal sufficient resources, including infrastructure and the funding from this competition, to successfully carry out the proposed research in the required timeframe.
• Potential impact of the proposed project.

Important Dates:

Competition 1

• April 17, 2020 - Full applications due
• April 27, 2020 - Decisions released
• October 31, 2020 - Project Spending Deadline

Competition 2

• May 15, 2020 - Full applications due
• May 25, 2020 - Decisions released
• December 31, 2020 - Project Spending Deadline

Please send all questions to research@queensu.ca

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