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Institute of Cancer Research - Institut du cancer
ICR’s Activities in ICR’s Activities in Cancer ImagingCancer Imaging
Institute of Cancer Research - Institut du cancer
Funding Sources for Imaging Research in Funding Sources for Imaging Research in CanadaCanada
Federal• Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)• Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)• Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI)• National Research Council (NRC)• Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
• Canada Research Chairs (CRC)• Canada Excellence Research Chairs (CERC)• Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE)• Centres of Excellence for Commercialization and Research(CECR)
Other• Cancer – Canadian Cancer Research Alliance (CCRA)
Provinces (Alberta Innovates, OICR); NGOs (CCS, TFRI)
CIHRCIHR
Created in 2000 to replace the Medical Research Council CIHR is Canada’s federal funding agency for health research CIHR’s mission is to create new scientific knowledge and to enable its
translation into improved health, more effective health services and products, and a strengthened Canadian health care system.
CIHR supports more than 13,200 health researchers and trainees across Canada
CIHR funds both investigator-initiated research as well as research on targeted priority areas
CIHR builds research capacity in under-developed areas and training the next generation of health researchers
CIHR focuses on knowledge translation that facilitates the application of the results of research and their transformation into new policies, practices, procedures, products and services
CIHR operates with a $1 billion annual budget CIHR has 13 virtual Institutes
Institute of Cancer Research - Institut du cancer
Institute of Cancer Research - Institut du cancer
Canadian Institutes of Health Research Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)(CIHR)
Outcomes of the first workshopOutcomes of the first workshop
• Brought the oncology, cardiology and neurology imaging communities together
• Provided a series of recommendation for addressing the challenges in imaging
• Led to $10M, in Budget 2010, to support the first national imaging clinical trials network – MITNEC
• MITNEC now coordinating clinical trials on the new products produced in the Isotope initiative
Institute of Cancer Research - Institut du cancer
Imaging Workshop – Canada/US/UKImaging Workshop – Canada/US/UKLinking ‘omics to Patient care Through ImagingLinking ‘omics to Patient care Through Imaging
The workshop was jointly organized by CIHR-ICR, NCI and CRUK and hosted by the Canadian High Commission in London, UK
The event brought together leading academic imaging and molecular science researchers from Canada (9); the UK (12); and the US (10), as well as organizing committee members, program staff and representatives of other UK research agencies
The goal of the workshop was to assess the feasibility of combining imaging expertise, resources and infrastructures among the three countries
The workshop included keynote presentations (two from each country); short presentations from participating researchers; a series of three breakout sessions; and informal networking opportunities
Discussions focused on finding common solutions to the existing barriers to translational research in cancer imaging
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Key Recommendations from the Key Recommendations from the Canada/US/UK WorkshopCanada/US/UK Workshop
The workshop generated great enthusiasm for the development of
Canada/UK/US collaborations that could address an identified need to:
Optimize and validate innovative imaging platforms and methods that meet the
sensitivity and specificity performance requirements for specific cancer problems
Provide robust quantitative measurements (as opposed to traditional qualitative methods), and optimize these methods for more efficient large-scale metadata analysis, and correlation with other research domains such as genomics, epigenetics, proteomics and other laboratory biomarker measurements.
Promote Interdisciplinary research in imaging and molecular sciences so more effective molecular or mechanistic-based solutions for data integration across the three imaging research domains can be explored and shared both nationally and internationally.
Institute of Cancer Research - Institut du cancer
Development of a Management Development of a Management PlanPlan
Funding Opportunity: Quantitative Imaging for Prediction and/or Evaluation of Responses to Cancer Therapies
The six-page Management Plan covered: Goals of the program – establish two Canadian teams as an integral part of QIN
Program delivery model – submit directly to NIH
Funding opportunity announcement – CIHR website, NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Relevance review – NCI program staff, CIHR for eligibility check of applicant
Review of full applications – NIH and NCI policies and procedures, CIHR observer
QIN executive committee – CIHR representative on QIN Executive Committee
Communications – NCI and CIHR, French and English, for CIHR formal news releases through Canadian Minster of Health
Ownership of IP - awardees
Access to Information and privacy act - according to national regulations
Termination – provide notice in writing, meet to discuss future of program
Dispute resolution - resolved jointly by NCI and CIHR
Agreement non-legally binding Collaboration Contact information
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Funding Opportunity: Funding Opportunity: Quantitative Imaging for Quantitative Imaging for Prediction and/or Evaluation of Responses to Prediction and/or Evaluation of Responses to
Cancer TherapiesCancer Therapies
September 2013 - Alert imaging research community to the upcoming call
October 2013 – Post funding opportunity on CIHR website with links to the NIH websites
November 2013 – Webinex for interested researchers Applications due February 2014 ICR, in partnership with Genome BC, will provide funding to
support up to two Canadian QIN nodes for five years Investment will be up to $400,000 per node per annum – this
aligns well with the funding for the US nodes Program will be run by the NIH through their regular processes. The top two fundable Canadian applications will be funded
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Canadian Participation in Canadian Participation in QINQIN
As permitted under existing laws, regulations and policies
the Canadian teams will participate in and contribute to:
QIN research activities collaborative working groups consensus publications monthly teleconferences annual and semi-annual meetings other participatory activities of the Network
Institute of Cancer Research - Institut du cancer