Call for Operating Grant Proposals from LLSC
Canadian researchers are invited to submit proposals to The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada’s (LLSC) Operating Grant program for research aimed at preventing, detecting and treating all types of blood cancers. The application process consists of two phases. The first phase is submission and consideration of a Letter of Intent (LOI). The second phase is the invitation for and submission of a full application. The competition opens September 4, 2019. For more, see the LLSC website.

Today, CCRA released its latest report on the investment in cancer research. It reveals that $491M was invested in cancer research in 2018. Although a slight increase since 2017 (up $17M), the investment has been fairly constant over the past five years.
This year's report includes some new analyses, which quantify the cancer-related health services ...
This webinar, "Spanning Bench to Behaviour: Harnessing CPTP data to understand lifestyle risks across the health spectrum," will provide an overview of the types of data collected through the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project (CPTP) — Canada’s largest population study of 330,000 Canadians in six regional cohorts across the...