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Grants

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Research Program Awards (RPA)

Support outstanding research programs (new or established) for two years ($120k).
RPA Guidelines and RPA Template
Submit your Research Program Award Proposal.
Deadline: February 8, 2021
RPA Awardees: Submit your Research Program Award first-year report here.

Junior Faculty Research Grants (JFRG)

Support new faculty (<5 years since their first appointment) research projects ($25k).
JFRG Guidelines and JFRG Template
Submit your Junior Faculty Research Grant Proposal
Deadline: February 8, 2021

Resident Research Grant (RRG)

Support for resident research projects ($5k)
RRG Guidelines and RRG Template
Submit your Resident Research Grant Proposal
Deadline: February 8, 2021

Wolves’ Den Grant

Live grant competition held at the annual DoS Research Half Day ($20k).
Pre-competition Deadline: October 2021
Submit Wolves' Den Proposal - CLOSED.

FoM Translational Research Grants (including DoS and FoM Basic Science Departments)

Funding for collaborative projects between clinical and basic scientists ($50k)

Important Message about all Department of Surgery Grant Competitions:
Information

The same project should not be submitted to both the Research Program Award and Junior Faculty Research Grant competitions.
Only one award will be made per person (when submitting to multiple competitions closing at the same time).
For each individual competition, there is a one-year embargo after a successful application.

Other Internal Grants

Local sources for research funding outside of the Department of Surgery (i.e., from uOttawa, TOH. TOHAMO, etc)

External Granting Agencies

List of external funding agencies

Year	DoS Grant Type	Awardee	Grant Title
2020	RRG	Gawad, Nada	My On Call (MOC) Pager App: Managing pages safely
2020	RRG	Ojaghi, Reza	Effects of Adductor Canal Block Injection Location on the Effectiveness of Regional Anesthesia: A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Effect on Postoperative Analgesia and Motor Power
2020	JFRG	Lavallée, Luke	A research program to improve quality of care for patients with bladder cancer
2020	JFRG	Pickell, Mike	Changes in the zone of calcified cartilage interfacing articular cartilage and subchondral bone during osteoarthritis
2020	RPA	Abdelbary, Hesham	Harnessing unique antibiofilm properties of bacteriophage to augment antibiotic therapy in implant associated infections
2020	RPA	Carsen, Sasha	Adolescent ACL: Development of a clinical prediction rule in order to optimize post-operative recovery and avoid re-injury
2020	RPA	Sachs, Adam	Restoring function with thought: Augmenting neuroprosthetic performance in the severely disabled with cognitive brain signals and deep learning
2020	WD	Grammatopoulos, George	Intra-Articular Adipose Tissue: biomarker and therapeutic target for arthritic hip joints
2019	TRG	Abdelbary, Hesham	se of a Novel, Clinically Representative Hip Replacement Rat Model to Asses Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilm-based Periprosthetic Joint Infections
2019	TRG	Grau, Juan	Analysis of Human Tissues to Identify Specific Cellular Resistance to Atherosclerosis: A Translational Research Approach
2019	TRG	Nessim, Carolyn	Building a cell atlas of human sarcoma through single-cell-RNA-sequencing
2019	WD	Alkherayf, Fahad	Intraoperative continuous flash visual evoked potentials monitoring during minimally invasive endoscopic skull base surgery, a novel approach to improve patient outcome
2019	RPA	Gilbert, Sebastien	Enhancing quality of care for patients who require chest tube drainage through design, implementation, and validation of an artificial intelligence-based clinical decision support system
2019	RPA	Breau, Rodney	The impact of adjuvant androgen deprivation following radical prostatectomy on prostate cancer recurrence
2019	RPA	Lapner, Peter	Approach to Management of the Retroverted Glenoid in Shoulder Arthroplasty: A Pilot Randomized Control Trial
2019	JFRG	Musselman, Reilly	Management and outcomes of colon and rectal cancer in elderly patients in Ontario
2019	JFRG	Smit, Kevin	Is Spinal Motion Preserved Following Vertebral Body Tethering for Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis?
2018	WD	Abdelbary, Hesham	Using a novel 3D printed titanium hip replacement rat model to anatomically map biofilm formation in surrounding tissues of a periprosthetic joint infection
2018	RPA	Lavallée, Luke	A new research program to prevent perioperative venous thromboembolism (VTE) and reduce variability in care in cancer surgery
2018	RPA	Boodhwani, Munir	Treatment In Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm: Surgery versus. Surveillance (TITAN: SvS)
2018	RPA	Tsai, Eve	Translational Human Tissue Research Program
2018	JFRG	Carsen, Sasha	Functional capacity of the knee joint before and after surgery in pediatric males and females after anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury: Optimizing recovery, preventing re-injury
2018	JFRG	Alkherayf, Fahad	Comparison of the effects seen with early exercise intervention versus late exercise intervention on pain and neurodynamic mobility following unilateral lumbar microdiscectomy: A Randomized Controlled Trial
2017	WD	Werier, Joel	The development and feasibility of a Virtual Multidisciplinary Cancer Conference (vMCC) for metastatic bone disease to improve quality of care across the Champlain LHIN
2017	RPA	Villeneuve, Patrick James	Clinical and molecular determinants that predict prognosis in lung cancer
2017	RPA	Hickling, Duane	Use of antimicrobial peptides against UTI
2017	RPA	Auer, Rebecca	Perioperative strategies to improve cancer outcomes
2017	RPA	Arnaout, Angel	Perioperative strategies to improve cancer outcomes
2017	RPA	Nasr, Ahmed	Pediatric Surgery - Advancing evidence-based practice with shared decision making
2017	RPA	Breau, Rodney	Lysine analogues during cancer surgery
2017	RPA	Martel, Guillaume	Research program to minimize preventable & inappropriate blood product transfusions in liver surgery