Strategic Operating Grants | Arthritis Society

The Strategic Operating Grant (SOG) program provides funding to support research proposals aligned with the Arthritis Society's priorities.  The Arthritis Society’s new Strategic Plan 2020-2025: Accelerating ImpactResearch Strategy aims to identify research avenues that focus on areas of highest priority to patients and achieve the highest levels of scientific excellence and rigour.  Applications must focus on innovative research efforts in the following priority areas:

  • Arthritis pain research in:
    • Improving our understanding of the underlying mechanisms of pain
    • Translating basic science discoveries into practice
    • Improving techniques to measure pain
    • Developing new and more personalized treatment approaches
    • Alternative approaches to pain management including research on medical cannabis from basic science, clinical, health services and policy perspectives
    • Improving self-management tools and technology enablers to help manage and communicate about pain
  • Osteoarthritis (OA) research in:
    • Improving our understanding of what cause different forms of OA, including the underlying biological mechanisms and how the disease progresses
    • Understand sex and gender differences in patients with OA
    • Developing new and more personalized treatment approaches
    • Developing more effective self-management tools
    • Improving health services and systems
    • Reducing health disparities in vulnerable and hard-to-reach populations
  • Inflammatory arthritis (IA) research in:
    • Improving our understanding of what causes different forms of IA, including the underlaying biological mechanisms and how the disease progresses
    • Developing new and more personalized treatment approaches
    • Improving strategies to manage symptoms
    • Developing more effective methods to support patient-physician communications
    • Improving health services and systems
    • Reducing health disparities in vulnerable and hard-to-reach populations
  • Childhood arthritis research in:
    • Improving our understanding of what causes childhood arthritis, how to detect it earlier, and diagnose it most effectively
    • Developing new and more personalized therapies that are safe and effective
    • Innovations to improve transitions in care as children navigate from pediatric to adult healthcare settings and improve unique quality of life issues through other life changes (e.g. education, employment)
    • Work-related research in:
    • Providing a strong evidence base to inform arthritis-related workplace policies and accommodations
    • Ensuring that employees and employers have effective tools and resources to communicate how to manage chronic conditions in the workplace
    • The prevention of workplace disability and the most effective accommodations

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Eligibility

A researcher designated as the Principal Investigator must be based in, or formally affiliated with, an eligible Canadian Host Institution such as a university, research institute or health care agency. Graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, research associates, Adjunct Professors or Status only appointments (except where they hold a firm academic position at another Canadian institution), technical support staff, or investigators based outside of Canada are not eligible to be a Principal Investigator. Both the Principal Investigator and executive authorities of the Host Institution are required to agree to the terms of the Host Institution/Arthritis Society Agreement included as part of the application, thereby acknowledging and agreeing to all the responsibilities and obligations outlined in that Agreement.

Online Research Grants Portal open: March 1, 2021
Letters of Intent (LOI) submission deadline: April 12, 2021, 5:00 PM EST
Notification of LOI results: mid-July 2021
Online Research Grants Portal open: mid-July 2021
Full Application submission deadline: September 1, 2021, 5:00 PM EST
Notification of decision: mid-December 2021
Funding start date: January 1, 2022

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Agency Name: 
Arthritis Society
Contact Name: 
oris@uleth.ca
Grant Amount: 
Max $100,000/yr for 3 years
Grant Location: 
External
External Deadline: 
Monday, April 12, 2021
Internal Deadline: 
Monday, April 5, 2021
Grant Type: 
Research
Salary
Trainee
Equipment
Grant Area: 
Health
Grant Eligibility: 
Faculty