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International Partnership Initiative

CAN has been chosen by the Networks of Centres of Excellence to receive funding for an International Partnership Initiative (IPI) that will encourage the sharing of expertise and knowledge amongst the best arthritis researchers world-wide. What this means for you is the following:

FUNDING to send interested investigators and trainees to academic and/or industry labs outside of Canada (either through pre-arranged CAN partnerships or visits you arrange, pending approval)
FUNDING to send interested consumers to special international meetings and workshops to promote and explain the purpose of CAN’s unique Consumer Advisory Council
FUNDING to sponsor your attendance at international conferences where you present CAN-funded research or discuss CAN programs
FUNDING to initiate collaborative research opportunities (current partnerships exist with the Arthritis Research Campaign (UK), the Nuffield Foundation (UK), The Arthritis Foundation (USA), the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and the AO Foundation (Switzerland)). Click here for more details.

We have 40 spaces to be filled within the next 18 months. Lab visits and mini-sabbaticals for trainees, consumers and Network Investigators would last up to three months. Any trainee working in a Network Investigator’s lab is eligible to apply.

This section will be updated regularly as new partnerships are developed, new information becomes available and new opportunities for lab visits and mini sabbaticals are identified.

If you have questions or are seeking more information about this program, please contact Joanne Wright at 416-586-4800 ext. 4798 or jwright3@mtsinai.on.ca.

For CAN Investigators and Trainees:

To Host a Foreign Trainee or Investigator
International Research & Training Program - LABORATORY/CLINIC PROFILE

To Apply for Funding
International Research & Training Program - GUIDELINES AND APPLICATION FORM

Symposia
Symposia at International Conferences - POLICY AND GUIDELINES
Symposia at International Conferences - APPLICATION FOR TRAVEL FUNDS

For CAN's International Partners

Active Lab/Clinic Profiles