Optimizing Research Funds

for

Faculty of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences by

Office of Sponsored Research Grants & Agreements Group

and Innovation Development &

Entrepreneurship Assistance

December, 12th 2014

FAES Faculty Meeting

VP-RIR Rosie Goldstein

AVP-RIR Sarah Stroud

Academic Advisors Phil Barker

Philippe Gros Peter Grütter

Research Advisory Council

Administration & Awards

Management Marlene Boutet

•Awards Management •Data Management •Information Systems & Reporting

Grants and Agreements

Olga Naiberguer

•Biomedical & Health Sciences (BHS) •Natural Sciences & Engineering (NSE) •Social Sciences & Humanities (SSH) •Prizes & Awards

Strategic Initiatives

Kristina Öhrvall

•Policy & Planning •Institutional Strategic Initiatives •Major Initiatives Development

Innovation and Partnerships

Michèle Beaulieu Jean-Francois

Nadeau Isabelle Péan

•Invention Development & Entrepreneurship Assistance (IDEA) •MUBEC •Quartier de l’Innovation (QI)

Finance, Human Resources, and Communications

Brett Hooton •Operations, Events & Communication •Finance, HR

International Relations Eli Turk

•Outreach and Partnership International Relations

Research Ethics and

Compliance Suzanne Smith Lynda McNeil

•Animal Compliance •Human Ethics

OSR

Research & International Relations – New structure

OVPRIR

3

Services for McGill researchers

OSR: Grants & Agreements NSE/BHS/SSH

OSR:Administration

and Awards Management

Institutional Strategic Initiatives (ISI)

Invention Development &

Entrepreneurship Assistance (IDEA)

• Identifies & promotes funding opportunities

• Offers infosessions, grantsmanship, application guides for major competitions

• Advises on rules, regulations and submission procedures for sponsored applications

• Assists with proposal development and review, bid applications

• Approves applications on behalf of McGill/provides institutional signature

• Liaises with funding sources and partners

• Communicates results of competitions

• Most often the first point of contact for PIs seeking support with research funding

• Negotiates project-related collaborative agreements and MOUs

• Drafts, negotiates and executes research contracts, including those with industry partners

• Delineates award parameters, summarizes administrative & financial Terms & Conditions for grants & contracts

• Authorizes new Fund creation

• Issues subgrant agreements

• Assists with post-award management matters, i.e. changes to award parameters, change in PI status, compliance certificates

• Link between OSR, RFMS, PIs & research team, and local staff

• Maintains InfoED institutional research database

• Ensures data integrity • Responsible for internal

and external data reporting and statistics

• Oversees pre-and post-award for the following strategic grants involving institutional commitments: o Canada Foundation for

Innovation (CFI) o Provincial Infrastructure

Grants o Genome

Canada/Genome Quebec Grants

• Provides dedicated support for complex, large-scales, partnership-driven initiatives with funding from multiple sources as well as cross-faculty and interdisciplinary projects

• Works closely with the Provost Office on Canada Research Chairs (CRC) applications and Canada Excellence Research Chairs (CERC)

• Advises on and receives reports of inventions • Due diligence review on

new invention disclosures

• Intellectual Property (IP) protection/strategy

• Maturation/Valorisation grant applications (NSERC I2I, CIHR POP)

• Business development • Supports new company

creation (spinoffs) • Negotiates agreements

(CDA/NDA, MTA, Option, License) in relation to inventions

• Offers education sessions on Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship

Grants Administrator

Catherine Senecal #5406

Consortia, Networks, Industry-funded research (corporations)

Faculty of Science Rupa Narasimhadevara, #7105 Senior Grants & Agreements

Officer

Natural Sciences &Engineering Cherif Aidara, #3356 Associate Director

Consortia, Networks, Industry-funded research (corporations)

Faculty of Engineering, FAES Christian Chouinard,#8558

Senior Grants & Agreements Officer

FRQNT, Provincial programs International programs Linda Kemp, #3592

Grants & Agreements Officer

NSERC CRD & Strategic grants , Industry-funded research (SMEs)

David Nguyen, #8707 Grants & Agreements Officer

NSERC Discovery, RTI, Engage, Interaction grants; Mitacs NSE-related Foundations

Agnes Wong , #3102 Grants Officer

Social Sciences & Humanities

Networks, Team Grants Industry & not-for-profit funded research

Amy Larin, #4803 Senior Grants & Agreements

Officer

International programs, Co-funded grant programs,

joint initiatives Alison Glaser, #3348

Grants & Agreements Officer

SSHRC, FRQSC, SSH-related Foundations, Mitacs

Education, Music, Law, Management,

Religious Studies Joanna Mastalerek, #7300

Grants Officer

SSHRC, FRQSC, SSH-related Foundations, Mitacs

Faculty of Arts Lauren Clark, #4880

Grants Officer

Grants Administrator Jennifer Callaghan #3256

Biomedical & Health Sciences #6138

Giovanna Sebastiani Associate Director

Consortia, Networks, Large Team Grants Industry-funded research

Carole Goutorbe, #3538 Senior Grants & Agreements

Officer

International, US Federal, Industry-funded Grant Programs

Martyn Liness, #8915

Grants & Agreements Officer

CIHR, Cancer-related programs, Mitacs

Melissa Li, #5184 Grants Officer

FRQS, Provincial programs BHS-related Foundations

Rina Cohen, #7187 Grants Officer

Neurology-related programs Daina Leimanis, #1728

Grants Officer

Grants Administrator Dalia Soliman #1389

Controlled Goods, Export Control, Industrial Security

CRIAQ/CARIC. BIAP, IRAP Jana Porubska, #8667

Senior Grants & Agreements Officer

McGill Internal Research Programs

Vera Milbradt, #3790 Research Administrative

Officer

Prizes & Awards

Meredith Chatman #3218 Prizes & Awards Officer

Office of Sponsored Research: Grants and Agreements

Olga Naiberguer Director

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Organizational chart of the Natural Science and Engineering team

Natural Sciences and Engineering team for FAES

Cherif Aidara Associate Director

Christian Chouinard Senior Officer - Consortia, networks, Agreements with large corporations

for FAES and Eng.

Rupa Narasimhadevara Senior Officer - Consortia, networks, Agreements with large corporations

for Faculty of Sciences

Linda Kemp Grants and Agreements Officer Provincial Funding Agencies –

Agreements with SMEs

David Nguyen Grants and Agreements Officer

Federal Funding Agencies – Agreements with SMEs

Agnes Wong Grants Officer – NSERC Engage, DG

Mitacs files

Catherine Senecal Grants Administrator

Michele Beaulieu IDEA Director

Astrid Reimann IDEA Officer for FAES

Services to the FAES Researchers

Office of Sponsored Research Office of Innovation and Partnerships G Grants and Agreements Invention Development and Entrepreneurship Assistance ( IDEA)

• Identifies & promotes funding opportunities (infosessions and grantsmanship)

• Assists with proposal development and review, bid applications

• Advises on rules, regulations and submission procedures for sponsored applications ( Institutional approvals)

• Liaises with funding sources and partners ( results of competitions, negotiations of all subsequent agreements)

• First point of contact for PIs seeking support with research funding

• Negotiates project-related collaborative agreements and MOUs

• Negotiates and executes research contracts, including those with industry partners

• Enforces McGill’s IP policy • Assesses patentability/merchantability • Supports patent prosecution, research and

commercialization strategies • Draft IP related agreements • Provides grant writing support for IP

related granting vehicles (I2I/POP/CFI/Genome Ca/Qc)

• Liaises with “investors” to support spin-off operations

• Offers information sessions on IP

Sources of Research funding

• Private entities, NGO and Foundations

• International

• Provincial source:

• Federal source: Tri-council and PWSGC NSERC,

CIHR SSHRC

FRQNT FRQSC FRQS

MAPAQ

Private partners

UN Funds

US Funds European Funding Others

Building long-term relationship

2-3 Years

The different funding programs set by the Federal Government (NSERC) and the Provincial Government can help to develop long term relationship with Industry

FRQNT

Discovery Grant

NSERC Engage

6Months

Engage Plus

6Months

NSERC Strategic

NSERC CRD 2-3 Years

New hires

Mechanisms to increase the research funds

Optimizing the Researcher’s (PI) funding

Mitacs Program Agnes Wong

Consortium/ Network

(CRIBIQ) Christian Chouinard

University PI

R&D tax and credits

returns

Other Federal and provincial funds to develop

the technology (NSERC I2I and CIHR

POP) Astrid Reimann

Early-stage technology Maturation program

Private partner

Federal & Provincial Funding Programs David Nguyen and

Linda Kemp

Private partner

IDEA

Example

Optimizing the Private partner contribution

NSERC CRD: 160K$

CRIBIQ: 76.5K$ PI

Total : 396.5 K$

R&D tax and credits

returns

NSERC I2I/ CIHR POP

Early-stage technology

Maturation program

Contribution cash:100K$ In-kind contribution: 80K$

Additional Research Funds

for more development

Case studies- Optimizing research funding

Case study 1: Project Initiated by a Researcher Align the project objectives/results/deliverables to meet

the requirements of the funding agencies (program priorities, needs and perspectives)

Involve a private partner (under confidential terms) to co-develop the project proposal – define the implementation process plan and address the needs of the private partner

Develop a strategic partnership with a strong letter of support (with cash and in-kind contribution of the partner)

Increase the research proceeds (effort/activities) through co-funding by agencies and private partners.

Case studies- Optimizing research funding

Case study 2: Project Initiated and Funded by Private Partner Align the research objectives defined by your Private

partner with additional activities that can have a positive impact in the entire research outcomes

Increase the research funds by leveraging your Private partner (cash and in-kind) contribution through NSERC CRD, MITACS, Consortia (CRIBIQ, CRITM…) programs

Build upon successful cases of a collaboration with Private partners in order to apply for a NSERC Industrial Research Chair.

Key personnel at FAES

Associate Dean Research Office ADR; Suha Jabaji (R3-032C) Assistant to ADR; Lilian Gregus (R3-032A)

OSR office at Mac (R3-013) David Nguyen; Grants and Agreement Officer –

Tuesdays Astrid Reimann- IDEA Officer – Invention

Development and Entrepreneurship Assistance - Mondays,Wednesdays,Thursdays and Fridays

THANK YOU!

Questions?

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