Working Together: A City-Wide Perspective!
Lawson Health Research Institute: Clinical Trials Management & Regulatory
Affairs, Negotiating Clinical Trial Agreements, Grants & Contracts Management,
Mentoring Scientists/Teams, Budget Development, Institute Sign-off, Risk
Management
Schulich School of Medicine: Bi-Monthly Grant Development Meetings with Lawson
for Strategic Planning, Mentoring and Grant Writing, Funding
Western Research Office: Regulatory Approvals (REBs, BioSafety Approvals, Animal
User Committee); Research On-Line Approvals (ROLA), External Grants: PSI,
NSERC, ERA and CFI LOF
WorldDiscoveries (Western/Robarts/Lawson): Patenting 101- Know your rights; NonDisclosure Agreements, Pre-Reviews of potential commercializations.
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Lawson’s Legal Structure
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Lawson Strategic Areas – Lawson Designated Leaders
Clinical
Therapeutics
*Dr. R. Kim
Imaging
*Dr. F. Prato
**Dr. J. Carson
** Dr. R. Tirona
Cancer
*Dr. J. Koropatnick
**Dr. G. DiMattia
Mental Health
*Dr. C. Forchuk
**Dr. L. Donnelle
Surgical
London Core
Research Facilities
*Dr. G. King
**Dr. A. Sener
• CSTAR
• Imaging
•Centre for Clinical Investigation & Therapeutics
Neurosciences
•Informatics
*Dr. T. Doherty
• Genomics and Proteomics
Critical Illness
*Dr. G. Cepinskas
• Clinical Research Services
•Epidemiology & Biostatistics
•London Innovarium
Cardiology
Children’s Health
*Dr. Sam Siu
**Dr. S. Lavi
*Dr. B. Avison
**Dr. K. Speechley
Probiotics/
Immunology
*Dr. G. Reid
**Dr. D. O’Gorman
* Assistant Directors/Theme Leaders
Aging, Rehab &
Geriatric Medicine
*Dr. R. Petrella
**Dr. D. Keast
* *Alternate Theme Leaders – June 2013
Lawson’s Grant Facilitation Office
Key Responsibilities:
Pre-Award Grant Administration, including:
 administrative review,
 assistance with budget development
 Institute Sign-off
Managing Internal deadlines for Multiple External Grant Deadlines
Team Building for Multidisciplinary Strategic Funding (CFI)
Bi-Annual Internal Research Fund Competitions
Presentations/Workshops to Faculty/Scientists
Lawson External Nominations/Awards/Support Letters
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Grants vs Contracts
“Research contracts are negotiated between the scientist and a company, and
may be of the result of the scientist approaching a company, or vice versa”
It is extremely important to engage Lawson’s Grants & Contracts office early in
negotiations for the following reasons:
1. Institute overhead fees must be negotiated up-front!
2. Proposed budgets to do the research must be reviewed!
3. Contract must have the appropriate clauses to protect our scientists!
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Lawson’s Signing Process
Obtaining Institute Official Signatures:
 Notify Lawson Grant’s Office when the decision has been made
to apply to an external competition
 Chief/Chair and/or Lawson Theme Leaders must pre-approve
by signing “Request for Institute Signature”
 Lawson Signatures must be obtained at least 2 working days (if
not earlier) before the final agency deadline the application,
budget, and completed Grant Application Checklist should be
submitted to grantsubmission@lawsonresearch.com and copied
to one of the staff (Stephanie/Janice)
 CIHR internal deadlines differ from above!
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Where to find
Funding?
LAWSON’s Intranet:
https://www.lawsonrese
arch.com/intra/grant/fun
ding.htm
External
Funding
Database
Tips on
writing a
successful
Grant
Internal Funding
Lawson Internal
Research Fund
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Internal Research Fund
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Run twice a year (Spring and Fall)
Allows New Investigators to obtain SEED funding to collect pilot data
Funding Max $15,000 for a total of two years
Basic Requirements:
• Must have a faculty appointment at Western
• Must be a member of Lawson member
• Must hold an primary appointment in a clinical department at either LHSC
or St. Joseph’s
• Research being proposed must be performed within a building owned by
either LHSC or St. Joseph’s
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Where to find
Funding?
WESTERN’s Intranet:
http://www.uwo.ca/res
earch/funding/index.ht
ml
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Where to find
Funding?
EXTERNAL’s
Database:
www.pivot.cos.com
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Licensed by Western
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Sends bi-weekly emails on
funding opportunities based
on your search keywords
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Connects you to potential
collaborators who are doing
similar research within Western
or in the world
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Questions?
Contact Information:
Stephanie Bowman, Manager Grants Development
Stephanie.bowman@lawsonresearch.com, extension 65575
https://www.lawsonresearch.com/
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