Recruitment Program

The Alberta Prion Research Institute is an internationally competitive research program seeking excellent researchers and students to join Alberta's growing prion research community.

For information on research opportunities, please contact us at ron.clarkson@albertainnovates.ca

Scholar Designation

The Prion Institute Scholar designation is a recruitment strategy to attract internationally renowned researchers to Alberta to investigate Prion issues. This initiative supports top researchers who are leaders in their fields, and who demonstrate a commitment to scientific excellence and the ability to recruit other research talent to the province. Though salary awards are not attached to the program, Scholars are given the opportunity to apply off cycle for support from Prion Institute programs. 

Recruitment Salary Support Program

Overview 

The Alberta Prion Research Institute has a mandate to support the building of excellence in research on BSE and related diseases in Alberta. The Recruitment Salary Support Program is intended to assist Alberta universities in recruiting to Alberta high caliber investigators whose research is within the mandate of the Institute.  The program aims to increase the capacity for excellent prion research at Alberta institutions.

The Prion Institute Recruitment Salary Support Program allows Academic Institutions in the Province of Alberta to seek salary support for new independent investigators who will conduct prion research in Alberta.

Funding from APRI will supplement that provided by institutions and other partners will be considered to be incremental to the overall funding developed by the recruiting academic institutions.

Eligibility 

Institutions may nominate potential new appointees who have demonstrated a commitment to scientific excellence.

Eligible nominees may be of any academic rank and must be eligible for tenure at the nominating institution. Nominees will not have accepted an appointment at the time of the nomination to APRI. Nominees must intend to carry out research in an area within the mandate of APRI.  

 

The Institution must indicate how the individual's requirements for teaching, or clinical service, or both, will be at a level which will allow a majority of the person's time to be available for prion research during the period of the salary award. Institutions also must demonstrate that there is sufficient start-up support and infrastructure for the candidate to initiate research at the start of their appointment. 

 

 

Funding 

The Prion Institute will provide contributions of up to one third of the total of salary plus benefits for these exceptional researchers. Funding will be to a maximum of $50,000/year for a maximum of three years, and will be paid directly to the academic institution.

The term of any salary award will be proportionally adjusted to coincide with the end of APRI’s current mandate (in 2011).

Conditions 

The recruitment program will provide a maximum of $150,000 for salary support to the academic institution over three years to support researchers who qualify under the program. The investigator must take up a tenure stream position in the nominating institution within one year of the notification of award by APRI.

 

 

The recruit must receive confirmation of peer reviewed funding for operating costs of research in an area within APRIs mandate within the first two years of APRI salary support to be eligible for the third year of her or his salary award.

 

Salary Support for New Investigators

Any contributions received for salary support of potential recruits in prion-related research fields are considered to be only a part of that developed by the host research institution. 

 

 

The prospective host research institution is expected to access additional funding internally or through other funding agencies, and must commit to ongoing support through a tenure stream appointment for the individual.

 

 

Nomination Process

 

Institutions have the opportunity to apply at any time to the Prion Institute Recruitment and Salary Program.

 

Institutions must provide the following information:

 

 

1.     The nominee’s current curriculum vitae or current copy of NSERC Form 100 or equivalent, providing the following details: 1) academic record, 2) training of highly qualified personnel, 3) academic research and industrial experience, and 4) research support. Do not include appendices to NSERC Form 100.

2.     A two-page outline of prion-related research to be undertaken in Alberta by the nominee.

3.    Institutions must also provide a two-page description of the current prion-related research environment into which the nominee is being recruited.

4.    The institution must provide information on start-up support for the candidate’s research.

5.     Institutional signature page for sponsored research funds.

 Examples:

         University of Alberta            http://www.rso.ualberta.ca//pdfs/Signature.pdf

         University of Calgary           http://www.ucalgary.ca/research/files/signature_sheet.pdf

 

 All information must be typed using font size of 11 or greater, with page margins not less than one inch on white paper, 8 1/2 x 11 inches (21.5 cm x 28 cm), portrait format, with a single column, unless specified otherwise.

For more information contact, Ron Clarkson, Director of Prion Programs at;

ron.clarkson@albertainnovates.ca or by dialing (780) 638-3788

 

Form

Recruitment Application Check-list