Discovery Grant

In order to be eligible to apply for a Discovery Grant, applicants must:
- Be an independent investigator;
- Be an applied health researcher and/or hold an MD degree (or equivalent) and/or PhD degree (or equivalent);
- Be licensed to practice medicine in Canada (if holding an MD degree);
- Have an academic or research appointment which commences by the effective date of the award (April 2019) at an eligible institution;
- A New Investigator has held academic or research appointment(s) for no more than 5 (five) years at the commencement date of the award (April, 1, 2019). NOTE: The window of eligibility for a New Investigator may be extended if their career has been interrupted for reasons such as parental leave, illness or health-related family responsibilities. For more information or to apply for an extension please contact the research team.
- An Established Investigator has held academic or research appointment(s) for a period of 5 (five) years or more at the commencement date of the award (April 1, 2019)

To be eligible to apply for a PCC grant or award applicants must be independent investigators.
An independent investigator is an individual who has an academic or research appointment at an eligible Canadian institution which:
- Must commence by the effective date of funding; and
- Allows the individual to pursue the proposed research project, to engage in independent research activities for the entire duration of the funding, to supervise trainees and to publish the research results; and
- Allows the individual to apply for and hold grant funding as a Principal Investigator from the Federal Tri-Council Agencies;
- Obliges the individual to conform to institutional regulations concerning the conduct of research, the supervision of trainees and the employment conditions of staff paid with PCC funding.

Investigators will assume financial responsibility for the grant at his/her own institution and will be responsible for reporting this information back to PCC.

A Co-Principal Investigator or a Co-Investigator is an independent investigator and is part of the team contributing to the grant.

Additional contributors may be named as Collaborators. It is not necessary to qualify as an independent investigator for this role; this includes independent investigators from outside Canada, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, clinical fellows, research associates, project coordinators; collaborators are named in the Full Application.

To be eligible to apply for a PCC grant or award, applicants must be affiliated with an eligible institution. Eligible institutions must meet the following requirements.
1. The Institution type must fall under one of the following categories:
- Canadian post-secondary institutions and their affiliated institutions including hospitals and research institutes;
- Canadian non-governmental, not-for-profit organizations (including community or charitable organizations) with an explicit research or knowledge translation mandate;
- Canadian non-federal government departments or agencies, including regional health authorities, when specific programs of those departments or agencies do not fund the activity that forms the subject matter of the grant.

2. The institution must be a recognized legal entity.

3. The institution must have the necessary accounting systems and financial controls in place to manage PCC Funds.

4. The institution must ensure that the researcher will have the time and infrastructure that will permit the pursuit of the planned research and the freedom to publish the results.

Applications from for-profit organizations are not eligible.

Non-domestic (non-Canadian) entities (foreign institutions) are not eligible to apply

Funding from Prostate Cancer Canada grants is intended to be spent at eligible Canadian institutions. An exception would be if someone you were hoping to work with was doing something that is not available in Canada; they could be reimbursed for work that is a fee-for-service in nature.

The following expenditures are not eligible for funding received through this funding opportunity:
- Indirect costs associated with the conduct of research including, but not limited to, heating, lighting, ethics review, intellectual property and commercialization activities
- Salary or honoraria for PI, Co-PI and Co-Investigators
- Fringe benefits for students, postdoctoral fellows, and clinical research fellows
- Conference travel (except where noted above)
- Entertainment and hospitality costs
- Membership fees, union dues

The November 30 deadline is registering your intent to submit a Full Application. You need to complete the registration page in the online application.

The deadline for the Full Application is Thursday, January 17, 2019 at 5 pm Eastern, but you must have created and completed the Registration portion of the application before November 30 at 5 p.m. Eastern to be able to proceed and submit an application.

Timeline:
- Registration Deadline: November 30, 2018
- Full Application Deadline: January 17, 2019
- Funding Start Date: April 1, 2019

Applicants may submit one application only where named as either a Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator.