Link to: Azrieli Science Grants Program
2022 Funding Opportunity (registration now closed):
New Ideas to Advance Knowledge in Neurodevelopment
Advancing Research
The Azrieli Accelerator at the University of Calgary
The Azrieli Accelerator at the University of Calgary—a new initiative to transform neurodevelopment research across the lifespan—will address many critical questions related to brain development. The research will shape the direction of new interventions and supports for neurodiverse individuals and their families.
Azrieli Institute for Brain and Neural Sciences
The Azrieli Institute for Brain and Neural Sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science will promote neuroscience research, from basic studies to translational clinical work with global impact.
Azrieli National Institute for Human Brain Imaging and Research
The Azrieli National Institute for Human Brain Imaging and Research centres around a high-field 7Tesla MRI facility, the only such one in Israel. Building on the Weizmann Institute’s strengths in core human brain research, magnetic resonance physics, image processing disciplines and valuable collaborations the Institute has established at national and international levels, the AHBI is a world-leading research entity, pushing the boundaries of brain imaging and neuroscience.
The AHBI is a collaborative effort between Weizmann, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, the Hebrew University and the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Centre; as a national centre, research time at the AHBI is made available to scientists from across Israel.
Azrieli Institute for Systems Biology
The Azrieli Institute for Systems Biology provides a platform for collaboration between various disciplines that, together, are creating new, holistic approaches to characterizing the networks that govern complex interactions within biological systems. From genome architecture and function, to model organism development, to the multi-scale dynamics that drive both health and disease, Systems Biology provides a computational framework for understanding life in all its complexity. The Azrieli Institute for Systems Biology, now in its sixth year is poised to make tremendous insights to better our collective understanding of antibiotic resistance, how new viruses arise and even why chemotherapy is sometimes ineffective.
Azrieli National Centre for Autism and Neurodevelopment Research
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
The Azrieli National Centre for Autism and Neurodevelopment Research at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev is a leading international centre for innovation in translational research, diagnosis and interventions in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other neurodevelopmental conditions.
Azrieli Neurodevelopmental Research Program
The Azrieli Neurodevelopmental Research Project (ANRP) supports research with a special focus on Autism Spectrum Disorder and Fragile X Syndrome. Operated in partnership with Brain Canada, the goal of ANRP is to develop new diagnostics, treatment and prevention strategies for neurodevelopmental disorders to reduce their economic and social burden on Canadians, and to improve the quality of life for those affected by neurodevelopmental disorders and their families.
Azrieli Centre for Neuro-Radiochemistry
With a long-standing track record of pioneering new brain imaging techniques, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is home to Canada’s first positron emission tomography (PET) centre. Through the Azrieli Foundation’s transformational support, CAMH, a leader in this field, will develop methods for more accurate and complete understandings of mental illnesses at the Azrieli Centre for Neuro-Radiochemistry
Azrieli Adult Neurodevelopmental Centre
In partnership with CAMH, the Azrieli Adult Neurodevelopmental Centre will provide better care, fuel new breakthroughs, train the next generation of experts and share groundbreaking knowledge with the world.
Joint Canada-Israel Health Research Program
In 2021, the Azrieli Foundation, the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Israel Science Foundation launched of Phase II of the Joint Canada-Israel Health Research Program: a six-year, $21.5 million program focused on the evolving health challenges that the world and the research community will face in the post-COVID era.
Phase II will support world-class research teams co-led by three principal investigators: one from Canada, one from Israel and one from a low and middle-income country working in diverse areas of biomedical science and global health.
For the 2022-2023 competition, six grants, each worth up to CAD1.4 million, will be awarded to collaborative research teams working in the field of communicable diseases, with a particular focus on investigating underlying biological mechanisms and impacts on global health.
Additional information about this opportunity is available from IDRC and CIHR.
Azrieli Centre for Autism Research
Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital
The Azrieli Centre for Autism Research will foster innovations in therapy and a better understanding of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The new centre in Montreal is poised to help lift the shroud of mystery surrounding Autism Spectrum Disorder, and lead to the development of better diagnostic tools and more effective therapies for people with autism.
Azrieli Program in Brain, Mind & Consciousness
The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
CIFAR has been successfully taking on difficult scientific challenges for more than three decades by undertaking global research programs connecting many of the world’s best minds – across borders and between disciplines – to shape new perspectives and spark groundbreaking ideas. CIFAR offers research fellows the rarest of commodities: freedom to take the kinds of intellectual risks that are essential for creating truly transformative knowledge.
The Azrieli Foundation supports CIFAR through two outstanding programs which expand the boundaries of understanding in ways that might otherwise not be possible: Azrieli Program in Brain, Mind and Consciousness and CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars.
The Azrieli Program in Brain, Mind and Consciousness brings together researchers from a broad range of disciplines including cognitive neuroscientists, neurologists, geneticists and other biologists, anthropologists, psychologists, computational scientists, philosophers, artists and others – in order to understand how our brains give rise to consciousness and form our unique perspective on the world around us. This research aims to transform our fundamental understanding of brain functioning.
Azrieli Center for Stem Cells and Genetic Research
Dedicated to conducting pioneering research towards enhancing the fields of cellular and molecular mechanisms, the Center is home to Israel’s leading scientists and international collaborators, and specializes in the study of genetic disorders such as Down Syndrome and Prader-Willi Syndrome, with a special focus on Fragile X Syndrome.
Technion Integrated Cancer Center (TICC)
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
The first center of its kind in Israel brings together the best minds in life sciences, medicine, engineering and the natural sciences to decipher the basic mechanisms that underlie cancer and to develop new treatments and invent cutting-edge early stage diagnostic technologies. The support of the Azrieli Foundation has made possible the bio-informatics and epigenetic core of the TICC, led by Nobel Laureate Aaron Ciechanover.
Research Grants
The Azrieli Foundation supports the work of brilliant scientists, most recently:
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Israel Cancer Research Fund (ICRF)
Nobel Laureate, Distinguished Professor
Weizmann Institute of Science
Dr. Irit Sagi
Fragile X Syndrome Research
Dean of the Feinberg Graduate School
Department of Biological Regulation
Sheba Medical Center
Fragile X Premutation Clinic & Research Center
Advancing our health today
Azrieli Heart Centre
The Jewish General Hospital is now home to a multidisciplinary heart centre that will make pioneering advances in the field of cardiac imaging after receiving the largest single donation in its history from the Azrieli Foundation.
Annually admitting 5,200 patients with severe, life-threatening illnesses, the JGH is now the only hospital in the province of Quebec with an entire department dedicated exclusively to adult critical care.
This fellowship provides early-career physicians and scientists from Israel with the opportunity to seek new approaches to medical diagnosis and treatments through placements at Canadian academic centres in facilities affiliated with the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal.
Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (Ichilov Hospital)
The Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (Ichilov Hospital) is the largest acute care facility in Israel. Treating nearly 400,000 patients annually, this 1,500 bed, world-class academic medical center serves a population of one million people.
Wolfson Medical Center
Save a Child’s Heart Pediatric Cardiac Center
Save A Child’s Heart, (SACH), is an Israeli-based international humanitarian project that provides urgently needed pediatric heart surgery to vulnerable children living in developing countries. Dedicated to its mission that every child deserves the best medical treatment available, regardless of nationality, religion, race, gender or financial circumstance, the International Pediatric Cardiac Center will ensure many more children’s lives are saved for years to come.
Schneider Children’s Medical Center
Schneider Children’s is all about children. As the only comprehensive, tertiary care hospital of its kind in Israel and in the Middle East, Schneider’s has revolutionized the practice of pediatric medicine and has been recognized as one of the leading pediatric institutions in the world focused on a “whole-child-care” multidisciplinary approach.
Rabin Medical Centre (RMC)
Since its establishment in 1936, the Rabin Medical Center has served as a leader in the use of clinical technologies while maintaining the highest standards of quality patient-centered medical and nursing care.
Sheba Medical Center
MSR – Israel Center for Medical Simulation is located in Israel’s largest hospital. It employs advanced simulation-based training modalities that enable healthcare providers to effectively improve their clinical skills through experiential training, creating a safer, more humanistic, patient-centered culture of treatment.
Hope and Cope
Hope & Cope helps people cope with cancer. Guided by professional staff, cancer-experienced volunteers provide psychosocial support and practical resources that help patients regain a sense of control and well-being, reduce isolation and restore hope. Easily accessible and open to all, Hope & Cope is located at the Jewish General Hospital’s Segal Cancer Centre and the JGH/Hope & Cope Wellness Centre.
From opposite sides of the globe, Dr. Lawrence Rudski and Prof. Ehud Raanani provide insights into the innovative work in their world-class cardiac centres.
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