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Postdoctoral Fellowship for Canadian Veterans with Chronic Pain

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Applications are open until Friday, February 28, 2025 at Midnight EST.

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The Canadian Pain Society (CPS) and the Chronic Pain Centre of Excellence for Canadian Veterans (CPCoE) are pleased to offer funding for a Postdoctoral Fellow focused on clinical or health policy research relevant to Veterans living with chronic pain.

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This funding includes salary support of $70,000¹ for one year.

HOW TO APPLY

All applications, submitted in English or in French, must include the following:

  1. Completion of our online form.

  2. One letter of reference from the applicant’s current or proposed supervisor that addresses their research abilities and potential, and any financial or resource commitments that they (or their institution) are making in support of the proposed research.

  3.  A two-page Research Project Summary briefly outlining the research project. This summary should include the following headings (where applicable): Background, Aims, Methods, and Significance. Please use 12pt Time New Roman Font with 2cm margins.

  4. A 500-word statement on how the proposed research project is relevant to Veterans living with chronic pain.

  5. The Applicant’s CCV (Biosketch Form).

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

  1. Applicants must be a current trainee member of the Canadian Pain Society.

  2. Applicants must have identified a postdoctoral position at a Canadian university and a supervisor willing to host them at the time of the award. This information should be stated in the supervisor’s letter of reference.

  3. Applicants must have fulfilled all degree requirements for a PhD, PhD equivalent, or health professional degree before the start of the award and within four years at the time of application.²

  4. This funding is only to be used for salary support for the recipient. No part of this funding is to be used to support costs associated with research programs or operating grants. Institutional overhead will be at the discretion of the recipient’s academic institution and must be included within the $70,000 (i.e., additional funding will not be provided for institutional overhead).

  5. The CPS and CPCoE will evaluate applications according to the Rating Scale.

  6. Previous year award winners are not eligible for future awards.

  7. The CPCoE will distribute the funding to the trainee’s institution once granted.³

  8. The recipient must acknowledge the CPS and CPCoE in publications and presentations associated with the research for which the funding is provided.

  9. The awardee must attend the Canadian Pain Society Annual Scientific Meeting (May 01-04) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada to receive the award (note: no additional funding will be provided for this).

¹ This funding does not cover indirect costs. The institution is responsible for any additional employer costs (e.g. benefits and institutional overhead).
² Funding will be distributed by the CPCoE via contract with the recipient’s institution.
³ This window of eligibility could be extended if the applicant had their career interrupted for extenuating circumstances, such as parental leave, illness, health-related family responsibilities, or, pandemic-related reason, etc.

Thank you for submitting your postdoctoral fellowship application. We will be in contact regarding your progress.

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Submit your Application for our Postdoctoral Fellowship

All documents must be combined and uploaded into one PDF file that does not exceed 25MB.

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