Committees
Funding Partnerships
Chair: Robert Armstrong (UBC). Members: G. Burrows, M. Clulow, G. Cronin, L. Newhook, E. Orrbine
The primary objective of the MICYRN Funding Partnerships Core is to identify new funding opportunities and to build the relationships necessary to share resources and match expenditures with local, provincial, regional, and national partners in order to build a sustainable funding model for MICYRN’s operations and infrastructure that will benefit all maternal and child research centres across Canada. This Core has already been successful in building a solid relationship with the Children’s Miracle Network hospital foundations in Canada; the Fondation de la recherche sur les maladies infantiles/Foundation for Research into Children's Diseases in Quebec; and the Canadian Association of Children’s Hospital Foundation Executives, who have come together in an unprecedented national collaboration to support MICYRN’s critical needs, with initial support allocated for 2007-2008. The Funding Partnership Core will also approach additional national and international agencies (e.g., NIH, WHO, UNESCO), and other sources, for funding.
One such other source includes the joint CIHR and CFI Clinical Research Initiative – Research Hospital Fund grant competition to which MICYRN submitted an application in October 2007. The application involved a total of 49 co-applicants from 25 hospitals and universities covering eight provinces across Canada. A total of $25M was requested from the CFI infrastructure portion of the grant (which required 60% matching funds from the participating institutions) with twelve centers that were able to participate in this portion of the request. These centers include: St. John’s (Nfld.), Halifax, Quebec City, Ottawa, Kingston, Sick Kids, Hamilton, London, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Edmonton and Vancouver. In addition, $10M to be allocated over five years was requested from the CIHR operating portion of the grant. The funding announcement will be made in late March 2008.
