Partnerships
The CSCC's first international partnership, with the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), was announced in June 2008.
It is proposed that one of the first initiatives to be launched by the CSCC will be a collaboration between Canadian and Californian scientists through CIRM's upcoming Disease Team Research Awards Competition, which will support multi-disciplinary teams of scientists in pursuit of therapies for specific diseases.The goal is to fund teams that will develop therapy or diagnostics for a particular disease or serious injury.Successful proposals will likely include a description of a path to an Investigational New Drug filing at the end of the four-to-five year grant. Requests for Applications (RFAs) for the grants are expected to be issued in early 2009, with grants announced by the end of the year.
CIRM money will be earmarked only for research that takes place within California while funding from Canadian CSCC members will support research conducted in Canada.
View October 2008 Announcement on Disease Teams Awards (English / French)
CSCC is actively pursuing partnerships with a variety of international organizations and with the private sector. For more information, please contact Cindy Bell at cbell@genomecanada.ca, or by phone at (613)751-4460.
