Accelerator Grants in Genomic Medicine Application Deadlines

The University of Toronto McLaughlin Centre (MC) is pleased to announce its 15th research funding competition. The competition will be based on invited grant applications passing an initial letter of intent stage. Both steps will go through committee peer-review adjudicated by the Director. McLaughlin Centre continues to be committed to the principles of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in research and innovation.

Option 1 (Research only)

Genome Annotation Informatics/Data Science: Discovery (data analyses and mining) and technology development (new algorithm, pipeline, database, machine learning/AI) proposals will be considered. Applications can range from across all ‘omic’ types of data and analyses. Funding for data generation experiments may be considered, but preference is to use existing datasets. Participation in the 2024 Genome Canada Precision Health Initiative is also encouraged and projects can be used as co-funding for each other.

Option 2 (Research + Post-doctoral Fellowship) – NEW for 2025!

MC Scholars Post-doctoral Fellowships: Independent from research funding request, each lab/team may opt in to nominate one candidate to apply for the inaugural MC Scholars Post-doctoral Fellowship Award ($100,000/year for two years). Student/trainee in the final 6 months of their PhD and/or MD or those with less than 3 years of post-doctoral experience is eligible to apply. Additional application component for the postdoc candidate will be requested in the LOI form.