Funding Opportunities

The CCN Early Career Faculty and Trainee Program (ECFTP)

The CCN represents a hub for multidisciplinary and collaborative projects to advance clinical neurosciences research. The CCN strongly believes in the importance of mentorship, networking and pilot grant opportunities to support early career investigators, as a long-term investment and mutual benefit to the CCN research community.

The CCN ECFTP represents an opportunity for junior researchers to contribute to and participate in ongoing CCN’s research projects, while increasing their network of collaborators and interactions with other faculty members from McMaster University and the St. Joe’s Research Institute.

The call for applications has now closed.

Award Winners

Early Career Faculty Awards:

Dr. Dante Duarte, MD PhD, Seniors Mental Health, St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton

Project: “DIfferential Feasibility and Tolerability of Deep RepetitiVE TranscranIal MagNEtic Stimulation for Depression in Older Adults: A Pilot Study for the DIVINE Trial”

Dr. Fabiano Gomes, MD PhD, Mood Disorders Treatment & Research Clinic, St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton

Project: “Lifestyle and Metabolic Markers as Predictors of Cognitive and Psychosocial Functioning in Young Adults Recently Diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder: A Prospective Pilot Study”

Systematic Review Awards:

Dr. Michael Omiwole, MD, Psychiatry Resident, McMaster University

Project: “Impact of Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder on Circadian Rhythms and Sleep Quality”

Dr. Jordan Edwards, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, The Offord Centre for Child Studies

Project: “A Review of Risk of Bias Instruments and Approaches to Evidence Synthesis in Systematic Reviews of Global Prevalence Studies of Child and Youth Mental Disorders”