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In Canada, who decides what cancer research is funded and how much funding each project receives?
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MichaelWosnickPhD (Researcher (Verified) ) - 08 / 13 / 2012
It’s pretty much up to each organization to decide what aspects of cancer research they want to support, and via which programs. Research support comes in all shapes and sizes. For example, some organizations concentrate on supporting individuals through stipends and such. A studentship to allow a promising senior level student to work full time at research may run $20-$30,000 per year. Similarly the stipend for a post-doctoral fellow can be anywhere from, say $35,000 and up per year. If you had, for example, $300,000 per year in total to allocate, research awards of that type might be a good way to make a few awards per year.
On the other hand, the actual costs of a full research project can easily consume $100,000 - $500,000 per year. Support for a full team of researchers doing a series of related projects as part of a team grant can easily be $1-2 Million per year and more. So unless you have a budget of many, many millions of dollars, you are not going to be able to participate in funding whole projects or team grants.
Furthermore, some agencies will wish to fund full operating grants that are as self-contained as possible (i.e. to cover the full costs of the whole project), where others prefer, or are only able, to offer what might be termed “grants-in-aid” (i.e., a contribution towards a project with the recognition that the full cost is not being borne out of that grant but must be supplemented by other grants).
All reputable agencies rely on some form of expert review, usually termed peer review, where committees of knowledgeable but impartial experts review and critique all grant applications and essentially score them and place them in rank order so that only those deemed to have the highest possible merit will even have a chance of being funded. Peer review committees often also analyze in great detail the budget requests on each grant application, and the committee’s collective recommendations are often the basis of what an agency actually awards per grant or per project.
On the other hand, the actual costs of a full research project can easily consume $100,000 - $500,000 per year. Support for a full team of researchers doing a series of related projects as part of a team grant can easily be $1-2 Million per year and more. So unless you have a budget of many, many millions of dollars, you are not going to be able to participate in funding whole projects or team grants.
Furthermore, some agencies will wish to fund full operating grants that are as self-contained as possible (i.e. to cover the full costs of the whole project), where others prefer, or are only able, to offer what might be termed “grants-in-aid” (i.e., a contribution towards a project with the recognition that the full cost is not being borne out of that grant but must be supplemented by other grants).
All reputable agencies rely on some form of expert review, usually termed peer review, where committees of knowledgeable but impartial experts review and critique all grant applications and essentially score them and place them in rank order so that only those deemed to have the highest possible merit will even have a chance of being funded. Peer review committees often also analyze in great detail the budget requests on each grant application, and the committee’s collective recommendations are often the basis of what an agency actually awards per grant or per project.
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