The Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Canada's International Development Research Centre, and the Azrieli Foundation have partnered with the Israel Science Foundation to establish the Canada-Israel Health Research Program.
The program will provide $35M over seven years to Canadian and Israeli researchers to assemble world-class research teams working in cutting-edge areas of biomedical science.
Each funded project will involve researchers from low and middle income countries to further their scientific capacity. Researchers will contribute to and benefit from their involvement in the program. The overall aim is to promote research excellence in Canada and elsewhere, build long-lasting scientific relationships, and ensure that researchers from low- and middle-income countries also benefit from this new international effort.
The first call for applications was launched in January 2015. It is focused on new frontiers in neuroscience and will award up to six $1 million grants to joint Canadian-Israeli research teams for a non-renewable period of up to 3 years.
Subsequent calls may include areas of common interest focusing on other organs and diseases, and various topics in health sciences, such as cancer biology, immunology, stem cell research and molecular medicine.
