Grants
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 3, 2020
- RPA Awardees: Submit your Research Program Award first-year report.
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 3, 2020
- Live grant competition held at the annual DoS Research Half Day ($20k).
- Pre-competition Deadline: Closes annually November 1
FoM Translational Research Grants (including DoS and FoM Basic Science Departments)
- Funding for collaborative projects between clinical and basic scientists ($50k)
- Deadline: April 15, 2020 - Postponed
Resident Research Grant (RRG)
- Support for resident research projects ($5k)
- RRG Guidelines and RRGTemplate
- Submit your Resident Research Grant Proposal
- Deadline: February 3, 2020
Important Message about all Department of Surgery Grant Competitions:
- 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.
- Local sources for research funding outside of the Department of Surgery (i.e., from uOttawa, TOH. TOHAMO, etc)
- List of external funding agencies
Grant Winners
Year DoS Grant Type Awardee Grant Title 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