Granting Process:

Geographical boundaries: National

• Applicants should be new investigators within the first three years of their first independent university/research institute appointment, receiving less than $100,000 in total start-up funds.
  
  
• All funds presently held and or applied for must be listed. The Foundation will await the pending results of other proposals prior to making any final decision on funding.
  
  
• If applicants hold joint operating grants, they should attach a letter signed by the principal investigator specifying the actual amount of funds alloted to the applicant.
  
  
• Grants are awarded to individual grantees and are tenable at the institution in which the applicants hold primary appointment at the time of application.
  
  
• Applications must be completed on the Foundation's Application Form and bear the requested signatures.
  
  
• The written material should not exceed seven (7) single-sided pages. However, if required the applicant is allowed to add a maximum of three (3) pages to the Research Proposal section - page 4 of the Application Form, in addition to the reference page(s).
  
  
• One original and 12 double-sided photocopies of the entire application on 3-hole punched 8.5 x 11paper should be forwarded to:
  
  The Executive Director
  The Banting Research Foundation
  Banting Institute
  100 College Street, Room 534
  Toronto, ON
  M5G 1L5

• The maximum duration of the grant is one year - July 1 to June 30.
  
  
• Grants are paid quarterly.

• Funds can be used to purchase equipment and for general operating expenses specified in the budget proposal, including salaries for technicians, post-doctoral fellows, graduate and summer students.
  
  
• Equipment purchased with grant funds is the property of the institution at which the grant was held.
  
  
• Grants are paid to the comptroller of the sponsoring institution. Grantees in accordance with standard institutional practice may draw on this account as needed.
  
  
• Within two months of the specified termination date of the grant (June 30) an accounting statement should be submitted by the comptroller to the Foundation.
  
  
• Any unexpended or uncommitted funds should be returned to the Foundation. If an exception is warranted, the grantee may submit a written request to the Executive Director, thirty (30) days prior to the termination date of the grant for consideration.

• The grantee shall submit to the Foundation a brief report of the work performed within sixty (60) days of the grant termination date.
  
  
• Any publication or abstract resulting from the work supported by a grant from the Foundation should contain the following acknowledgement:
  
  

  "This work was supported by a grant from The Banting Research Foundation".

• One copy of any publication or abstract should be forwarded to the Executive Director of the Foundation.

• Applications are restricted to new investigators who are within the first three years of their first independant appointment.
  
  
• Postdoctoral Fellows and Research Associates are not eligible to apply.
  
  
• Applications for funding research outside of Canada will not be considered.
  
  
• The use of funds to pay the salary of the applicant, overhead or travel expenses is not permitted.