2025 CARRA Mentored Career Development Award

Eligibility

• The project PI for all grants must be a current CARRA member who is up to date on membership dues and has ensured their membership information (location, contact information, and membership status) is current and accurate.
• The following current CARRA members are eligible to serve as Principal Investigators on CARRA-Arthritis Foundation Mentored Career Development Award:
  • Pediatric Rheumatologists
  • MD applicants must be a 3rd year fellow or Assistant Professor
  • Fellows*
  • Residents*
• All grants must be submitted by or include a pediatric rheumatologist named as a Co-Investigator.
• Current or past MCDA grant awardees are not eligible to apply

Summary

CARRA’s culture of collaboration focuses on facilitating, accelerating, funding, and performing research driven by academicians, clinicians, patients, and families to fulfill its mission: to conduct collaborative research to prevent, treat, and cure pediatric rheumatic diseases. CARRA’s peer-reviewed Intramural Grant Program offers various funding opportunities to support investigators at all career levels and advance research that furthers our mission.

This mentored career development award is intended to support an early career investigator (Fellow, Assistant Professor) who demonstrates a clear track record and commitment to developing an independent research career in pediatric rheumatology.

This grant program does not allow for CARRA Registry and Biosample use and collection. For any questions you may have, please contact the CARRA grants manager at grants@carragroup.org. All applications must focus on areas identified in the 2023-2025 CARRA-Arthritis Foundation Inflammatory Arthritis Research Agenda.

Application deadlines

RSO detailed review deadline

RSO final internal review deadline

Program application deadline

NOTE: Consult your Faculty Associate Dean (Research) (ADR) regarding Faculty-specific deadlines and submission processes.

Principal Investigators: Complete a Research Management System (RMS) record, including a copy of your complete application, and submit this for approvals in RMS.

Postdocs, students, and trainees: For fellowships and externally-sponsored research training awards or opportunities, you must complete the Research Funding Application Approval (RFAA) Trainee PDF form, and submit it, along with a complete copy of the application, to Research Services at fellowships@ucalgary.ca. Trainees should not use RMS at this time.

Approvals: The University of Calgary requires that all funding applications be approved prior to submission. Approval requires signatures via either RMS or the RFAA Trainee form, in the following order:

• Principal Investigator
• Department Head
• Faculty ADR/Dean
• Research Services (on behalf of the Vice-President Research)

Read the Meaning of Grant Signatures policy to understand what your approval means. Please see the agency guidelines for details about which signatures are required on your application, as it may differ from internal requirements.

Late submissions: Late submissions will only be accepted in cases of medical or family emergencies, or other exceptional circumstances. If you submit your RMS record to Research Services after the internal deadline has passed, you must secure additional approvals. Please read: Late Applications Process.

Online Submission through Proposal Central 

CARRA uses an electronic grant submission process. All applicants must submit their full application packages through Proposal Central’s online grants management system. Paper applications will not be accepted.

• All applicants must register as users on Proposal Central here.
• Click here for Proposal Central’s guide on how to set up an account.
• Click here for Proposal Central’s Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ’s).

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