Election of the scientific director of the vision network
In order to proceed to the election of a new scientific director of the vision network,
please take care of the following procedure and the application guide enclosed. Please note that the interested person should have submitted before early july.
You are wellcome to transmit your documents to Dre Elvire Vaucher elvire.vaucher@umontreal.ca or Dre Stéphanie Proulx stephanie.proulx@fmed.ulaval.ca
1) june 2 to july 6, 2011 : application for the position of scientific director. a PDF document should be sent by the applicant: CV, support letters of 3 members of the vision network, electoral platform (5-10 lines), biosketch (5-10 lines) and one photo.
Pre-selection by the selection committee
2) july 6, 2011 : Dead line of application period.
3) july 8, 2011 : Meeting of the scientific committe of the vision network: presentation of the applicants, approval by the committee.
4) july 8 to august 26 : Posting of the applicant program on the web site.
5) august 29 to september 16, 2011 : 3 weeks encrypted electronic vote.
approval of the applicant by the FRSQ and formation of the new director
6) november 4, 2011 (research ay of the vision network): starting date of the new director.
appel de candidature
election du directeur
Funding announcements
2011-2012
To all members of the Vision Network,
The Vision Research Network is pleased to announce the following funding opportunities:
STUDENT RECRUITMENT BURSARIES: Bursaries of $10,000.00 will be made available in order to facilitate the recruitment of students interested in pursuing their graduate studies in vision research. Applications are open to students who are about to begin their graduate studies or are in the first year of their Master’s degree. Bursaries will be awarded to the most promising applicants.
In order to qualify, applicants are required to provide:
* The completed application form (attached).
* A short description of their project including:
Literature review and hypothesis (maximum 1 page)
Experimental methods and expected or preliminary results (1.5 pages)
Career plan (0.5 page)
* The applicant’s official academic transcripts, as well as their CV (FRSQ, IRSC
common CV).
* A letter of support and CV from the PI. Moreover, the PI will have to complete this bursary in order to insure that the student has an acceptable income (approximately $1,500.00 per month).
Note: If awarded a bursary, the student is required to submit a studentship to an organization with a peer review comity such as CIHR or FRSQ within the year that they are supported by the Vision Network. In order to receive the full amount of the bursary, a copy of the studentship request must be sent to the secretary of the Vision Network.
Deadline: 30 juin 2011
SUMMER INTERNSHIP BURSARIES: Please note that we are now accepting applications for summer bursaries (up to $2000.00, or $500.00 per month; the laboratory will have to complete this bursary in order to insure that the student has an acceptable income). In order to qualify, candidates must provide:
* A short description of their project including the duration of the internship and the potential benefits provided by the internship experience for both the student and the Vision Network community as a whole (1 page maximum). This request must be co-signed by the PI.
* A copy of the applicant’s CV and official academic transcripts.
* A letter from the PI indicating their support of the student for the duration of the internship.
Deadline: Ongoing. Applications will be evaluated upon receipt.
STUDENT EXTERNSHIPS: Financial support will be provided in order to allow a student from a member laboratory to travel abroad for advanced training. A maximum of $750.00 will be awarded to cover travel expenses and up to $1000.00 per month (or the equivalent, if for a shorter period of time) will be granted for living expenses. It is the laboratory’s responsibility to provide additional financial support to help the student cover any remaining expenses.
Minimum length: 2 consecutive weeks. Maximum length: 3 consecutive months.
Deadline: Ongoing. Applications will be evaluated upon receipt.
INTER-LABORATORY COLLABORATION GRANTS: Financial support will be provided in order to allow a student from a member laboratory to travel abroad to make use of a technique that is not available in Quebec and that is necessary for their research. A maximum of $750.00 will be allocated for travel expenses and up to $750 for living expenses. A yearly maximum of $1500.00 may be awarded per student, per laboratory. It is the laboratory’s responsibility to provide additional financial support to help the student cover any remaining expenses.
Deadline: Ongoing. Applications will be evaluated upon receipt.
reseau.vision@mcgill.ca
Journée scientifique EOUM-GRSV
Dear members of the vision network
I would like to personally invite you to the eighth 'journée scientifique de l’École d’Optométrie -GRSV' happening on the 1st of April 2011 in the Hall of Honour and amphitheatre Ernest-Cormier of the Université de Montréal. The event will happen between 8h30 and 17h00. You will find adjoined the program of the day in PDF format. If it were possible for you, we would be very pleased to have you with us. We will provide lunch at noon, as well as a cocktail at the end of the day in the hall of honour (while we count the votes for the public price), I would ask you however to book your lunch box, if you intend to take the meal at the latest Monday 28th of march (RSVP Mme Michele Oriol at michele.oriol@umontreal.ca, tel 514-343-6111 poste 8786)
Cordial greetings, and to the pleasure of seeing you on our 'journée scientifique'
Claude J. Giasson O.D., Ph.D.
Professor, École d'optométrie, Université de Montréal
Program pdf
Doctorate (PhD) in Vision Sciences
The University of Montreal will offer in 2011 a Ph.D. program in Vision Sciences run jointly by the School of Optometry and the Department of Ophthalmology, in partnership with the Department of Psychology. This program, unique in Quebec, will provide an academic environment "designed" for fundamental scientists and clinicians of tomorrow. The program includes 4 credits of core courses (compulsory), a minimum of 3 credits of elective courses and 83 credits devoted to research and thesis redaction. The program Vision Sciences will offer seven options:
1. Option "general"
2. Option "low vision and vision rehabilitation"
3. Option "cellular and molecular biology"
4. Option "biology of visual disease "
5. Option "neuroscience of vision and psychophysics"
6. Option "optic, instrumentation and imaging"
7. Option "clinical sciences and epidemiology"
For more information, contact christian.casanova@umontreal.ca
Funding announcements
2010-2011
To all members of the Vision Network,
The Vision Research Network is pleased to announce the following funding opportunities:
SHARED RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES: Those who would like to submit an application are invited to use the Research Infrastructure Grants. The participation of another granting agency (partnership) in the funding of the project will be highly considered.
Deadline: October 1st, 2010.
PROJECTS IN PARTNERSHIP: Projects should be submitted using the Projects in Partnership Grants.. The participation of another granting agency (partnership) in the funding of the project will be highly considered.
Deadline: October 1st, 2010.
STUDENT RECRUITMENT BURSARIES: Bursaries of $10,000.00 will be made available in order to facilitate the recruitment of students interested in pursuing their graduate studies in vision research. Applications are open to students who are about to begin their graduate studies or are in the first year of their Master’s degree. Bursaries will be awarded to the most promising applicants.
In order to qualify, applicants are required to provide:
* The completed application form (attached).
* A short description of their project including:
Literature review and hypothesis (maximum 1 page)
Experimental methods and expected or preliminary results (1.5 pages)
Career plan (0.5 page)
* The applicant’s official academic transcripts, as well as their CV (FRSQ, IRSC
common CV).
* A letter of support and CV from the PI. Moreover, the PI will have to complete this bursary in order to insure that the student has an acceptable income (approximately $1,500.00 per month).
Note: If awarded a bursary, the student is required to submit a studentship to an organization with a peer review comity such as CIHR or FRSQ within the year that they are supported by the Vision Network. In order to receive the full amount of the bursary, a copy of the studentship request must be sent to the secretary of the Vision Network.
Deadline: October 1st, 2010
26th ophtalmology research day
Congratulations to the winners of Vision research network price at the 26th ophtalmology research day:
Sylvain Bussières : Graduated student (PhD - Directed by Dr Christian Salesse)
Price given by Dr Benoît Cinq-Mars
Serge Bourgaul : Final project presented by a resident (supervised by Dr Éric Tourville)
Price given by Dre Béatrice Des Marchais
Funding announcements
2010-2011
To all members of the Vision Network,
The Vision Research Network is pleased to announce the following funding opportunities:
SHARED RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES: Those who would like to submit an application are invited to use the Research Infrastructure Grants. The participation of another granting agency (partnership) in the funding of the project will be highly considered.
Deadline: May 21st, 2010.
PROJECTS IN PARTNERSHIP: Projects should be submitted using the Projects in Partnership Grants.. The participation of another granting agency (partnership) in the funding of the project will be highly considered.
Deadline: May 21st, 2010.
INVITED RESEARCHER FOR TECHNICAL OR TECHNOLOGICAL TRANSFER: Financial support of up to $1500.00 (for traveling and living expenses) will be provided in order to invite a researcher coming from abroad (for a minimum of 3 days) to demonstrate a new technique or technology to a member laboratory. To be admissible, the request must be submitted to the Vision Network before the researcher is invited.
Deadline: Ongoing. Applications will be evaluated upon receipt.
STUDENT RECRUITMENT BURSARIES: Bursaries of $10,000.00 will be made available in order to facilitate the recruitment of students interested in pursuing their graduate studies in vision research. Applications are open to students who are about to begin their graduate studies or are in the first year of their Master’s degree. Bursaries will be awarded to the most promising applicants.
In order to qualify, applicants are required to provide:
* The completed application form (attached).
* A short description of their project including:
Literature review and hypothesis (maximum 1 page)
Experimental methods and expected or preliminary results (1.5 pages)
Career plan (0.5 page)
* The applicant’s official academic transcripts, as well as their CV (FRSQ, IRSC
common CV).
* A letter of support and CV from the PI. Moreover, the PI will have to complete this bursary in order to insure that the student has an acceptable income (approximately $1,500.00 per month).
Note: If awarded a bursary, the student is required to submit a studentship to an organization with a peer review comity such as CIHR or FRSQ within the year that they are supported by the Vision Network. In order to receive the full amount of the bursary, a copy of the studentship request must be sent to the secretary of the Vision Network.
Deadline: May 21st, 2010.
SUMMER INTERNSHIP BURSARIES: Please note that we are now accepting applications for summer bursaries (up to $2000.00, or $500.00 per month; the laboratory will have to complete this bursary in order to insure that the student has an acceptable income). In order to qualify, candidates must provide:
* A short description of their project including the duration of the internship and the potential benefits provided by the internship experience for both the student and the Vision Network community as a whole (1 page maximum). This request must be co-signed by the PI.
* A copy of the applicant’s CV and official academic transcripts.
* A letter from the PI indicating their support of the student for the duration of the internship.
Deadline: Ongoing. Applications will be evaluated upon receipt.
STUDENT EXTERNSHIPS: Financial support will be provided in order to allow a student from a member laboratory to travel abroad for advanced training. A maximum of $750.00 will be awarded to cover travel expenses and up to $1000.00 per month (or the equivalent, if for a shorter period of time) will be granted for living expenses. It is the laboratory’s responsibility to provide additional financial support to help the student cover any remaining expenses.
Minimum length: 2 consecutive weeks. Maximum length: 3 consecutive months.
Deadline: Ongoing. Applications will be evaluated upon receipt.
INTER-LABORATORY COLLABORATION GRANTS: Financial support will be provided in order to allow a student from a member laboratory to travel abroad to make use of a technique that is not available in Quebec and that is necessary for their research. A maximum of $750.00 will be allocated for travel expenses and up to $750 for living expenses. A yearly maximum of $1500.00 may be awarded per student, per laboratory. It is the laboratory’s responsibility to provide additional financial support to help the student cover any remaining expenses.
Deadline: Ongoing. Applications will be evaluated upon receipt.
Journée scientifique EOUM-GRSV: 19th March 2010
Invited spealer:
Dr Gislin Dagneli PhD
Wilmer Eye Institute,
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Conérence: "Recreating sight in end-stage retinitis pigmentosa patients with retinal implants: a report from the trenches"
You will find adjoined the program of the day in PDF format. If it were possible for you, we would be very pleased to have you with us.
Program pdf
Twelveth
Scientific Symposium on
Visual Incapacity and Readaptation
It is with pleasure that we remind you that the «12h Scientific Symposium on Visual Incapacity and Readaptation», under the theme «100 ans d’optométrie: Partenariat avec la réadaptaion» will occur on the 9th of February at the l'Université de Montréal.
Moreover, we would like to inform you that people registered to the symposium will be able to attend one of the two formations that will be offered simultaneously on the 10th of February, in the morning, at the Institut Nazareth et Louis-Braille. The adjoined documents provide you with the information about how to register those activities.
Rollande Grondin
phone : 450 463-1710 poste 315
Invitation et program pdf
Invitation word
Program word
FFB Funding
Please submit your Letter of Intent before December 15th 2009
Dear Researcher,
The Foundation Fighting Blindness invites you to submit your Letter of Intent for the upcoming grant competition 2010/2011. Before we can accept any grant application we kindly request you to send us your Letter of Intent. Details and the Letter of Intent form are available on our website. The LOI deadline is December 15th, 2009.
Follow the link to access our website to read more about our Operating Grant competition, Fund Allocation Guidelines and our online grant application form: http://www.ffb.ca/research/grants_awards.html
Annually The Foundation Fighting Blindness funds eye research with a total amount just under 1.5 million Canadian dollars. Our funding has resulted in scientists like you to make great scientific developments and discoveries in eye research.
For more information about the Foundation Fighting Blindness, please visit us at www.ffb.ca
The winners at the annual vision network meeting
We would like to congratulate the winners for their presentations at the annual meeting of the Vision Network of the FRSQ, held on the 6th November 2009 at the hotel Le Dauphin at Drummondville.
The contest of the best PhD student
* Frédéric Lebrun-Julien (theses director: Dre Adriana Di Polo) for his prensetation "La mort des cellules ganglionnaires par des mécanismes cellulaires non-autonomes : Le rôle des cellules gliales de Müller dans la mort neuronale"
Prices for oral presentations
* Mylène Pouliot ( Dr Elvire Vaucher laboratory) for her prensetation "L'administration topique de l'antagoniste du récepteur B1 des kinines FV-60135-02 inhibe l'inflammation de la rétine chez le rat diabétique"
* Valentina Vucea (Dr Vasile Diaconu laboratory) for her prensetation "Modélisation de la fonction de réflectométrie pour les vaisseaux sanguins de l’œil"
Prices for poster presentations
* Marie-Krystel Gauthier (Dr Vincent Raymond laboratory) for her prensetation "Novel mutations in the ABCA4 gene in French-Canadian patients affected by Stargardt disease"
* Bruno Cécyre (Dr Jean-François Bouchard laboratory) for his prensetation "Effet du récepteur CB2 aux cannabinoïdes sur le guidage axonal"
* José Carlos Rivera (Dr Sylvain Chemtob laboratory) for his prensetation "A novel modulator of the IL-1 receptor prevents development of oxygen-induced retinopathy"
* Kim Beauregard (Dr Sylvain Chemtob laboratory) for her prensetation "Design et développement pharmacologique du 101.10, petit peptide allostérique antagoniste du récepteur de l’interleukine-1"
* Caroline Jacques (Dr Dave Saint-Amour laboratory) for her prensetation "Effets à long-terme de l’apport prénatal en oméga-3 sur les fonctions visuelles chez les enfants Inuits du Nunavik"
* Marie-Eve Laramée (Drs Gilles Bronchti and Denis Boire laboratories) for her prensetation "Connexions indirectes entre les cortex auditif et visuel primaires chez la souris"
This meeting was a succes and you are greatly responsible for it.
Thank you for your participation!
To see the abstracts for the presentations given during the meetiong, please click on the following link: annual meeting
Funding annoncements
My dear friends in the research community,
As a follow-up to a previous letter from Bill Stell, Director of Research at the Foundation Fighting Blindness (FFB), I would like to encourage you to send in an application at the LOI stage by November 2nd for this very large funding envelope. $16.5M is available for new projects and projects will be funded for up to 5 YEARS @ $500,000/yr! The FFB is a catalyst for research in Canada and is a partner with CIHR and its Institutes, as well as a partner with other Canadian funding agencies and universities. We want to fund you and your colleagues and this is an opportunity to maximize private sector research dollars. Thank you, Sharon Colle, President & CEO, The Foundation Fighting Blindness
Regenerative Medicine and Nanomedicine (RMNI) Emerging Team Grant, 2009-2010
The Emerging Team Grant: Regenerative Medicine and Nanomedicine funding opportunity has a two step application process. Phase 1 requires you to complete a Letter of Intent (LOI). Phase 2 requires you to complete an Application upon invitation. Detailed LOI instructions can be found in the How to Apply section of the funding opportunity on the CIHR website.
The RMNI Team grant program supports innovative multi-disciplinary regenerative medicine and nanomedicine research approaches to health problems.
The maximum amount awarded for a single grant is $500,000 per annum for up to 5 years.
Competition Dates:
Launch Date:July 9, 2009
Letter of Intent Deadline:November 2, 2009
Application Deadline:June 1, 2010
Funding Start Date:January 4, 2011
Please refer to the CIHR website for more detailed information.
CIHR – Institutes of Neurosciences (INMHA) and Genetics (IG) Funding Opportunity
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS
$16.5M available for new projects
Funding for up to 5 YEARS @ $500,000/yr
Message from:
Director Scientific Programs, The Foundation Fighting Blindness (Canada)
Fellow Retina Scientist,
These are difficult times for all of us.
Competition for research grants is stiffer than ever, and even when you get a grant, it’s really difficult to keep up with the escalating costs of doing first-class research. It’s harder and harder to get those great papers past the sniping and stabbing of reviewers and editors, whose demands often seem to be completely unreasonable. Financially strapped universities are trying to do more with less, which often means that you are pressed into extra hours of teaching and committee service. Unless you succeed in all of these, you may lose the external salary award that provides you with a job.
And the best students, the ones you want to recruit to your research program, are shying away from the intensity of competition and the apparent insecurity of academic employment, and going to professional schools instead. The M.Sc. is the new Pre-Med degree.
Does that seem to describe your situation?
The Foundation Fighting Blindness (FFB) is aware of the difficulties that you face, and is doing what it can – to keep retinal research alive, prospering and growing, despite the daunting challenges of today to biomedical research.
One good sign is that the FFB has been able to continue supporting world-class retinal research through its operating grants program, at almost the usual level. It has done so in the face of the economic recession, decreased income from donors and fund-raisers, and increased demand for support of ever higher quality and more competitive research project proposals.
Another good sign is that the quality, productivity, and public appeal of FFB-supported Canadian research on retinal degeneration have never been stronger. In the past year, two premier Canadian retinal research teams – headed by internationally recognized investigators, Drs. Valerie Wallace (U of Ottawa) and Bob Molday (UBC) – were awarded multi-year, multi-million dollar grants under the CIHR’s Regenerative Medicine and Nanomedicine Initiative (RMNI) Emerging Team Grant program, with positive support and partnering from the FFB. Still more Emerging Team Grant applications, highly competitive and in research areas eligible for partnering by FFB, are under review right now.
And that’s what I’m writing about.
The CIHR-RMNI has just announced a new competition. Letters of Intent (LOI) are due this fall (November 2, 2009). Full applications from selected LOI will be due next June, and funding of the top projects will be in place at the beginning of 2011.
I want to see the best of you in this competition.
Now is the time to start. You have almost three months to assemble a team and submit the LOI. There is a very good chance of success, offering prolonged high-level funding as well as the extra satisfaction and benefits of collaboration with members of your team.
From my experience with this kind of funding scheme, as Director of Scientific Programs (FFB) over the past 2 years, I have some knowledge and insight as to what sells and how the competition operates. I will be happy to discuss your questions and concerns and to help in any way that I can.
Just email me, dr_bill@ffb.ca, so that we can set up a time to talk by telephone or Skype.
Please do continue to the last page of this letter, for important details about applying. Above all, best of success.
Sincerely,
Bill Stell
Director, Research Programs, FFB
Vision Network Annual Meeting
The Vision Network annual meeting will be held November 6th 2009 at DRUMMONDVILLE (Hotel Le Dauphin, 600 boul. St-Joseph, Drummondville, J2C 2C1).
More details will be given in a near future.
Contest for the best PhD student
PhD students, members of the vision network, having completed their thesis between the 1st June 2009 and 31st May 2010 are admissible to the contest of the best PhD student. This contest will take place on the 6th November 2009 at the annual meeting. Contestants will be accepted until the 21st of October 2009.
The students who want to participate should provide us with an abstract (covering their entire PhD studies) for an oral presentation (in the format of a thesis presentation), their CV and a letter from their thesis director certifying the date of the thesis submission. A price of 1000$ will be given to the winner.
Program
Student recruitment funding
Those students who wish to submit an application must be on the verge of finishing their undergraduate studies and beginning their graduate studies in vision research in September 2009 at the very latest. These bursaries, of 10 000.00$ each, will be given to those students who are judged to show the most promise. To qualify, candidates must submit the following:
- A brief description of the project, including :
o A literature review and hypothesis (1 page maximum)
o Experimental methods and anticipated results and/or obtained results (1.5 pages)
o Career plan (.5 pages).
- The candidate’s academic information (grades), as well as a CV (FRSQ, CIHR) .
- A letter of support from the research director as well as the director’s CV in the common (FRSQ, CIHR) format. The director must accept to complete the bursary to bring it to a level that is acceptable for a graduate student (approximately 1 500.00$ per month).
N.B.: Candidates will also have to submit a bursary application to a peer reviewed granting organism such as the FRSQ and CIHR during the year for which support has been obtained. In order to receive all payments of the bursary, a copy of the submission will have to be set to the secretariat of the Network.
Deadline: October 16th 2009.
For more informations about the contest you can contact us at the following email address : reseau.vision@mcgill.ca
Form
New - Funding opportunity
Message from: Director Scientific Programs, The Foundation Fighting Blindness (Canada)
Fellow Retina Scientist,
These are difficult times for all of us. Competition for research grants is stiffer than ever, and even when you get a grant, it’s really difficult to keep up with the escalating costs of doing first-class research.
It’s harder and harder to get those great papers past the sniping and stabbing of reviewers and editors, whose demands often seem to be completely unreasonable.
Financially strapped universities are trying to do more with less, which often means that you are pressed into extra hours of teaching and committee service.
Unless you succeed in all of these, you may lose the external salary award that provides you with a job.
And the best students, the ones you want to recruit to your research program, are shying away from the intensity of competition and the apparent insecurity of academic employment, and going to professional schools instead. The M.Sc. is the new Pre-Med degree.
Does that seem to describe your situation?
The Foundation Fighting Blindness (FFB) is aware of the difficulties that you face, and is doing what it can – to keep retinal research alive, prospering and growing, despite the daunting challenges of today to biomedical research.
One good sign is that the FFB has been able to continue supporting world-class retinal research through its operating grants program, at almost the usual level. It has done so in the face of the economic recession, decreased income from donors and fund-raisers, and increased demand for support of ever higher quality and more competitive research project proposals.
Another good sign is that the quality, productivity, and public appeal of FFB-supported Canadian research on retinal degeneration have never been stronger. In the past year, two premier Canadian retinal research teams – headed by internationally recognized investigators, Drs. Valerie Wallace (U of Ottawa) and Bob Molday (UBC) – were awarded multi-year, multi-million dollar grants under the CIHR’s Regenerative Medicine and Nanomedicine Initiative (RMNI) Emerging Team Grant program, with positive support and partnering from the FFB. Still more Emerging Team Grant applications, highly competitive and in research areas eligible for partnering by FFB, are under review right now.
And that’s what I’m writing about.
The CIHR-RMNI has just announced a new competition. Letters of Intent (LOI) are due this fall (November 2, 2009). Full applications from selected LOI will be due next June, and funding of the top projects will be in place at the beginning of 2011.
I want to see the best of you in this competition.
Now is the time to start. You have almost three months to assemble a team and submit the LOI. There is a very good chance of success, offering prolonged high-level funding as well as the extra satisfaction and benefits of collaboration with members of your team.
From my experience with this kind of funding scheme, as Director of Scientific Programs (FFB) over the past 2 years, I have some knowledge and insight as to what sells and how the competition operates. I will be happy to discuss your questions and concerns and to help in any way that I can.
Just email me, dr_bill@ffb.ca, so that we can set up a time to talk by telephone or Skype.
Please do continue to the last page of this letter, for important details about applying.
Above all, best of success.
Sincerely,
Bill Stell
Director, Research Programs, FFB
RMNI Emerging Team Grant
Note: The Emerging Team Grant: Regenerative Medicine and Nanomedicine (2009-2010) funding opportunity has a two step application process. Phase 1 requires you to complete a Letter of Intent (LOI). Phase 2 requires you to complete an Application upon invitation. Detailed LOI instructions can be found in the How to Apply section of the funding opportunity on the CIHR website.
The RMNI Team grant program supports innovative multi-disciplinary regenerative medicine and nanomedicine research approaches to health problems.
The maximum amount awarded for a single grant is $500,000 per annum for up to 5 years.
Competition Dates:
Launch Date July 9, 2009
Letter of Intent Deadline November 2, 2009
Application Deadline June 1, 2010
Funding Start Date January 4, 2011
Please refer to the CIHR website for more detailed information.
Funding announcement
Please note that research funds and bursaries for PhD and MSc students are available from the FROUM. All the need information is available in the following documents : Research funding, Bursaries.
Deadline : 15th October 2009
The documents should be sent to Lucie Budack by email : lbudack.hmr@ssss.gouv.qc.ca
Phone : 514-252-3400 ext 4959
Funding announcements
2009-2010
To all members of the Vision Network :
The Vision Health Network is pleased to announce the following funding:
SHARED INFRASTRUCTURE: Those who submit are invited to use the form Research Infrastructure Grants. The participation of another granting agency (partnership) in the funding of the project will be considered highly positive.
The deadline is June 25th, 2009.
PROJECTS IN PARTNERSHIP: The projects should be submitted with the form Projects in Partnership Grants. The participation of another funding agency (partnership) will be regarded highly.
The deadline is June 25th, 2009.
THE CONTEST TO SUPPORT STUDENT RECRUITEMENT
Bursaries of $10,000.00 will be given to facilitate the recruitment of students willing to continue their graduate studies in vision research using this form.
Postulants must be on the verge of starting the graduate studies or within the first year of their master degree. Those bursaries will be given to the students that seem most promising.
In order to qualify, candidates must provide:
- The filled up form
- A short description of their project including:
- Literature review and hypothesis (1 page maximum)
- Experimental methods and expected or preliminary results (1.5 pages)
Career project
- Academic file of the candidates as well as their CV (FRSQ, IRSC common CV-like).
- A letter of support from the PI and their CV. Moreover the PI will have to complete this bursary in order to insure the student has an acceptable income (around $1,500.00 per month)
Note: The students given those bursaries will have to submit a studentship at organization with a review comity such as CIHR or FRSQ during the year they are supported by the Vision Network. In order to have all the complete bursary a copy of the studentship request should be sent to the Vision Network secretary
Submission
for the 20th Vision Network Prize
This message is to inform you that the contest for the Vision Network Prize, June 2009 edition is now open. It will close on the June the 15th 2009
This prize is meant to reward students and post doctoral fellows who published an article in vision health. The applicants can submit their article in the 6 months following the publication date, a maximum of two submissions for the same paper.
Evaluation:
The evaluators will consider the quality of the article as well as the prestige of the journal
Conditions of admissibility:
* The article should be sent in both electronic and paper format to the Vision Research Network.
* A short biography (1 page) and picture of the candidate must be submitted.
Deadline: June the 15th 2009
The required documents should be sent electronically to the secretariat of the network: reseau.vision@mcgill.ca
Good luck to all!
Journée scientifique EOUM-GRSV
Dear members of the vision network
I would like to personally invite you to the sixth 'journée scientifique de l’École d’Optométrie -GRSV' happening on the 3rd of April 2009 in the Hall of Honour and amphitheatre Ernest-Cormier of the Université de Montréal. The event will happen between 8h30 and 17h00. You will find adjoined the program of the day in PDF format. If it were possible for you, we would be very pleased to have you with us. We will provide lunch at noon, as well as a cocktail at the end of the day in the hall of honour (while we count the votes for the public price), I would ask you however to book your lunch box, if you intend to take the meal at the latest Monday 30th of march (RSVP Mme Christine Cherrier at christine.cherrier@umontreal.ca, tel 514-343-8786)
Cordial greetings, and to the pleasure of seeing you on our 'journée scientifique'
Claude J. Giasson O.D., Ph.D.
Professor, École d'optométrie, Université de Montréal
Program of the day
Submission
for the 19th Vision Network Prize
This message is to inform you that the contest for the Vision Network Prize, March 2009 edition is now open. It will close on the March the 15th 2009
This prize is meant to reward students and post doctoral fellows who published an article in vision health. The applicants can submit their article in the 6 months following the publication date, a maximum of two submissions for the same paper.
Evaluation:
The evaluators will consider the quality of the article as well as the prestige of the journal
Conditions of admissibility:
* The article should be sent in both electronic and paper format to the Vision Research Network.
* A short biography (1 page) and picture of the candidate must be submitted.
Deadline: March the 15th 2009
The required documents should be sent electronically to the secretariat of the network: reseau.vision@mcgill.ca
Good luck to all!
Congratulations to Pierre Lachapelle, scientific director
Good morning
The selection comity in charge of selecting candidates for the position of scientific director of the vision network has received one application, that of Dr. Pierre Lachapelle.
Since the application fulfills all expected requirements, we declare Dr.Pierre Lachapelle elected by acclamation. Thus, there will be no election.
The comity congratulates Pierre for his nomination and thanks him for his willingness to continue leading the network.
Stéphane Molotchnikoff et Vincent Raymond
Responsible for the selection comity
Scientific director elections
Nom : Pierre Lachapelle
Date de naissance: 23 mars, 1951
Statut civil : Marié à France Gamache depuis 1974. Père d’ Annie, Julie et François, beau-père d’Étienne et Sébastien et grand-père de Louis-Félix, Élodie, Delphine, Émile et une cinquième à naître en avril prochain.
Formation académique: PhD (Biologie, Université de Montréal) en 1981.
Postes occupés : Professeur d’ophtalmologie à l’Université McGill depuis 1981. Directeur du laboratoire et de la clinique d’électrophysiologie visuelle à l’hôpital de Montréal pour enfants depuis 1977.
Recherches : Portent sur la physiologie visuelle (de la rétine au cortex visuel) normale et pathologique chez l’humain ainsi que l’évaluation des dommages à la structure et la fonction rétinienne dans des modèles animaux de rétinopathies humaines (rétinopathie du prématuré, DMLA, rétinopathie liée à la lumière, héméralopie congénitale, etc). Bien que n’étant pas clinicien, depuis le tout début de ma carrière, je consacre presqu’également mon temps à la recherche dite clinique et à la recherche plus fondamentale. Ainsi, des quelques 130 publications que recense mon CV, 50 rapportent les résultats d’études faites chez l’humain (normal et pathologique). En près de 30 ans d’association avec McGill, mon laboratoire a formé plus d’une centaine d’étudiants (cliniciens et fondamentalistes) dont 30 étudiants gradués (MSC et PhD).
Ma vision du Réseau : Depuis que je suis à la tête du réseau (janvier 2001) et grâce à l’appui constant du comité de direction ainsi qu’à la participation enthousiaste des membres du Réseau, nous nous sommes dotés d’outils novateurs qui permettent à nos chercheurs d’être encore plus compétitifs, surtout à un moment où l’argent pour la recherche se fait plus rare. Qu’on pense aux projets rassembleurs (clinique et fondamental), aux infrastructures de recherche, aux projets en partenariat, aux bourses et prix offerts aux étudiants, etc. Pendant le prochain mandat que je sollicite, j’aimerais : 1- Mettre l’emphase sur les chercheurs en développement (étudiants gradués et résidents) de même que sur nos jeunes chercheurs (cliniciens et fondamentalistes) qui amorcent leur carrière; 2- Remanier l’organigramme du Réseau afin de permettre la participation de chercheurs plus juniors à sa direction; 3- Repenser les thématiques des axes afin qu’elles regroupent plus efficacement nos membres; et enfin, 4- Créer un nouveau programme qui jumellera chercheurs cliniciens et fondamentalistes afin de rehausser la valeur scientifique des projets de recherche clinique et ainsi permettre qu’ils deviennent plus compétitifs. Ce programme s’adressera autant aux chercheurs chevronnés qu’à ceux en formation ou en début de carrière, par exemple grâce au jumelage d’étudiants gradués (PhD) et résidents en ophtalmologie ou en optométrie. Cliniciens et fondamentalistes ont tout a gagné à apprendre à travailler ensemble. Autant l’apprendre le plus tôt possible dans sa carrière.
Funding announcements 2009
To all members of the Vision Network :
The Vision Health Network is pleased to announce the following funding:
PROJECTS IN PARTNERSHIP: An amount of 25,000.00$ has been set aside for a clinical research project in order to support research initiatives that will lead to the creation of new research teams.
The projects should be submitted with the form Projects in Partnership Grants. The participation of another funding agency (partnership) will be regarded highly.
The deadline is March 15th, 2009.
The required documents should be sent electronically to the secretariat of the network: reseau.vision@mcgill.ca
Good luck to all!
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