The CIHR database contains fields indicating type of award (operating grant, training award, salary award, etc), principal investigators (PI), co-applicants (Coap), primary thematic areas, effective date of award, and monetary amounts funded for each type of award in each fiscal year.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association HFPAA), which operates these awards to be awarded on 12 January, has said it will look unkindly on instances of movies being referred to as "winners" of nominations.
A quick perusal of operating grants awarded to Arabidopsis researchers by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) in Canada and by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the U.S. shows Canadian grants to be five- to 10-fold smaller than those in the U.S. It's tough to be competitive with this kind of handicap.
Funding for this study was obtained from a knowledge translation operating grant awarded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research CIHRR), fund number 111411.
This research was funded by operating funds awarded to MJGF by the Canadian Arthritis Network (CAN), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of Canada (CCFC).
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-230X/13/78/prepub This research was funded by the Canadian Cancer Society and the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Santé (FRQS) through operating grants awarded to Maida Sewitch.
For this momentous change in the way the Senate operates, we award this week's Most Impressive Democrat Of The Week this week to both Harry Reid and Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon.
At other times, the prize has seemed like a glorified long-service award, operating on the basis of Buggins's turn, honoring work that, while innovative and influential in its own context, has little broader social value.
Starting out: Got a £2,500 Princes Trustt award, initially operating from his mother's council flat in Batley, West Yorkshire.
Those numbers flipped between 2002 and 2009, when the median award given to patent trolls climbed to $12.9 million, while awards given to operating patent holders dropped to $3.9 million.
