Programmatic Grants in Environments, Genes and Chronic Disease

It is now widely recognized that complex interactions between environmental and genetic risk factors contribute to the etiology of many non-communicable chronic diseases. The Programmatic Grants in EGCD will address critical knowledge gaps in this area by supporting research to address how interactions between environmental, microbiome, and genetic factors contribute to chronic, non-communicable disease. The importance of this research area is outlined in a podcast by Dr. Philip Sherman, former Scientific Director of CIHR-INMD.

In the first phase of this initiative, CIHR-INMD launched the Catalyst Grants in Environments, Genes and Chronic Disease to support research to address priorities identified at the Environments, Genes and Chronic Disease National Workshop. Building on the momentum created by the Catalyst Grants, the Programmatic Grants in Environments, Genes and Chronic Disease funding opportunity was launched in December 2014 as part of the CIHR Environments and Health Signature Initiative. The Programmatic Grants in Environments, Genes and Chronic Disease were launched in collaboration with the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology, Crohn’s and Colitis Canada, Cystic Fibrosis Canada, the Heart and Stroke Foundation, Kidney Foundation of Canada and the National Research Council. Applicants and partners attended the Environments, Genes, and Chronic Disease Partner Forum in June 2015.

The objectives of this funding opportunity are:

• To support interdisciplinary programmatic research that improves our understanding of how environment-gene interactions or environment-microbiome-gene interactions contribute to both metabolic and immunologically-mediated non-communicable chronic diseases;
• To support interdisciplinary programmatic research on the etiology of chronic non-communicable disease that may ultimately contribute to the development of new intellectual property, research methodology (including new methods for measuring environmental exposures) and/or approaches for disease prevention or treatment; and
• To build interdisciplinary collaborations and foster Canadian expertise in order to elucidate the environmental and genetic origins of non-communicable chronic disease.

Funding Results

CIHR-INMD, in collaboration with funding partners Genome British Columbia and Crohn’s and Colitis Canada, congratulate the successful applicants for this competition.

Date modified:

2018-02-13