ISF: Canada-Israel Research on biomedical sciences - Communicable Diseases

Registration required by 17.1, 13:00. Submission deadline is 15.2

The program aims to encourage research cooperation between Israeli, Canadian and Low Middle-Income Countries’ (LMIC) scientists.

Particular focus on investigating underlying biological mechanisms and impacts on global health.

• Discovery research to identify new pathogens and their distribution in human populations
• New therapeutic approaches for communicable diseases
• Drug resistance Biology and Mechanism in infectious disease
• Host – Parasite interactions • New directions in vaccine research for infectious diseases
• New biomarkers for infectious disease detection, characterization, and monitoring
• Vector-borne and zoonoses including the impact of climate change on zoonotic disease distribution
• New technology platforms for rapid detection of pathogens of pandemic importance

Funding: NIS 1.3 million over 4 years for the Israeli side. Up to 6 proposals will be approved.

https://www.isf.org.il/#/support-channels/38/10