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Weston Brain Institute: Rapid Response 2025 program

Sponsor

Weston Family Foundation, through the Weston Brain Institute

For More Information

Please visit the Weston Family Foundation website [1] for:

  • Eligibility criteria
  • Review criteria
  • Program details
  • Templates

Description

The Weston Family Foundation aims to catalyze and scale science-based approaches to significantly improve the health and well-being of Canadians. The Foundation takes a leadership role in tackling large problems that are under-addressed by supporting research that is particularly relevant to the health of Canadians, and that empowers Canadians to improve their health and well-being.

The Foundation, through its Weston Brain Institute, is pleased to announce the launch of its flagship Rapid Response program designed to provide seed funding to catalyze novel, high-risk, high-reward translational research that accelerates the development of therapeutics or tools for neurodegenerative diseases of aging (NDAs).

Eligibility

Principal Applicants must be: 

  • At or above the level of Assistant Professor
  • Working in Canada at least 50% of the time
  • Affiliated with a Canada Revenue Agency-qualified donee institution located in Canada

Eligible projects should meet the following criteria: 

  • Be translational research that can accelerate therapeutic or tool development for NDAs, as defined by the Institute. 
    • Therapeutics should address unmet needs in the prevention, treatment and/or symptomatic management of NDAs.
    • Tools should address challenges in translational research to accelerate the development and/or clinical implementation of therapeutics for NDAs (e.g., biomarkers, drug delivery systems).
  • Have preliminary data to support the hypothesis and feasibility of the project.

Maximum Project Value

Up to $300,000 over 18-24 months

Indirect Costs

0%

Special Notes

An information session is being offered on February 11, 2025 at 1pm ET - Register for the session here [2]

Deadlines

If College-level review is required, your College will communicate its earlier internal deadlines.

TypeDateNotes
External Deadline
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 12:00am

LOI must be submitted directly to Weston Brain Institute through the online grants management system [3].

Internal Deadline
Tuesday, July 29, 2025 - 4:30pm

Applicants will be notified of proposal invitations in June 2025.

Applicants invited to submit a full proposal after the LOI review stage will be notified by Weston Brain Institute. Applicants invited to the Full Proposal stage must submit a copy of their full proposal draft, including budget and signed OR-5, to the Office of Research Services (research.services@uoguelph.ca [4]) a minimum of one-week prior to the deadline to submit a full proposal to Weston Brain Institute. 

External Deadline
Tuesday, August 5, 2025 - 12:00am

Full proposals must be submitted directly to Weston Brain Institute through the online grants management system [3]. [5]

For Questions, please contact

Please send your questions to info@westonbrain.org [6] and include "Rapid Response 2025" in the title.

Office of Research

Laurie Green, Awards & Agreements Officer
Research Services Office
lagreen@uoguelph.ca [7]

Alert Classifications
Category:
Funding Opportunities and Sponsor News

Disciplines:
Health and Life Sciences

Source URL:https://www.uoguelph.ca/research/alerts/content/weston-brain-institute-rapid-response-2025-program

Links
[1] https://westonfoundation.ca/grant_call/rapid-response-2025/
[2] https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/8db3ebca-9833-4854-9e04-489acf0a864b@0f3cc132-f072-407d-8e12-7633fceec7fa
[3] https://westonfdn.smartsimple.ca/s_Login.jsp
[4] mailto:research.services@uoguelph.ca
[5] https://weston.smartsimple.ca/welcome/432633/432633/
[6] mailto:info@westonbrain.org
[7] mailto:lagreen@uoguelph.ca