Funding Programs
Campus Alberta Neuroscience (CAN) was developed to increase the connectedness, scope, scale, success, and impact of neuroscience and mental health research, education, and translation in Alberta. CAN’s best avenues for impact are through bringing people together to develop and enhance collaborations.
Hope for Tomorrow Research Competition
Campus Alberta Neuroscience (CAN), in partnership with the Alzheimer Society of Alberta and Northwest Territories (AS AB/NT), is pleased to announce the launch of the Hope for Tomorrow Research Competition, focused on research that has the potential to make a significant impact on the quality of life of patients, families, and caregivers through exploration into the causes, prevention, treatment, and cure of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.
The first year of competition submissions has closed. The next round will open in the second half of 2023.
Entrepreneurship Seed Grant Program
Campus Alberta Neuroscience offers small grants to support entrepreneurship and commercialization in the fields of neuroscience and mental health in Alberta.
Are you an entrepreneur in the neuroscience and mental health field in search of funding?
Great news! CAN will be launching a new program – the NeuroSpark Innovation Grants – starting in July 2023. More details can be found here!
Entrepreneurship Seed Grant Program
This program ran from 2019-2021.
The Entrepreneurship Seed Grant provided funding and collaborative support for early-stage innovation projects with solutions that address neuroscience and mental health related challenges in Alberta. This unique program was designed to help early-stage founders and researchers to scale their innovation or company by providing financial support and access to CAN’s extensive network of over 1,000 members including founders, industries, consultants, partners and investors. The projects chosen for funding have compelling plans for the creation of a product or service (e.g., devices, therapeutics, software, etc.) with a demonstrated application to impact neuroscience and/or mental health fields.
Check out past entrepreneurship seed grant recipients:
| Aaron Phillips | StimSherpa.com |
| Peter Stys & George Templeton | Amira Medical Technologies Inc. |
| Simba Nyazika | Lenica Research Group / Peak Cognition App |
| Lukas Grasse & Matthew Tata | Reverb Robotics |
| Michael Overduin | SMALP Network |
| Tuan Trang & Darren Derksen | AphioTx |
| Alim Mitha | Fluid Biomed |
| Jacqueline Hebert | Gaze and Movement Analysis Inc., GaMA |
| Simonetta Sipione | |
| David Westaway | |
| Majid Mohajerani | Neurocage Systems, Inc. |
| Deborah Kurrasch | Path Therapeutics, Inc. |
| Christopher D’Esterre | Andromeda Medical Imaging |
| Aaron Gruber & Wilten Nicola | Synaptrain Technologies Inc. |
| Gerald Zamponi | Zymedyne Therapeutics |
| V. Wee Yong | Anthobio, Inc. |
| Ming Chan | Adonis Medical Technologies |
| Pierre Wijdenes | Neuraura Biotech |
| Eden Redman | 8 Bit Cortex / RemBRAINdt |
| Samsoon Inayat | AI Kinetic Systems, Inc. |
| Jaideep Bains | SenseSi Technology, Inc. |
| Satyabrata Kar | |
| Robert Sutherland | Synaptag Technology, Inc. |
| Nathanial Maeda | Cognitive Projections |
| Richard Wilson | AazeinTx |
| Ryan Rosentreter | Cortian Medical Technologies |
| Preeti Kar | |
| Geoff Frost | Raft Digital Therapeutics |
| Samuel Pichardo | NovusTx Devices |
| Abdullah Sarhan | Retinalogik Biotech, Inc. |
| Wendy Muise | Breast Buds, Inc. |