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Transplant Centre Incentive grants are intended to enhance the quality of care available to CF transplant candidates by providing eligible centres with supplementary funding for the following purposes:
1. support for personnel, excluding licensed physicians
(a) directly involved in the provision of patient services;
(b) to liaise with referring CF clinics, regarding pre- and post-transplant care;
2. administrative costs associated with:
(a) providing data annually to Cystic Fibrosis Canada*;
(b) ensuring that CF patients who are accepted as lung transplant candidates will have access to information and assistance with respect to accommodation, transportation, and oxygen;
(c) administration of funds for CF transplant patients which have been donated to help defray the personal expenses associated with transplantation, such as the development of trusts;
3. travel to scientific meetings on lung transplantation, or related to CF care.
* As with Cystic Fibrosis Canada’s Clinic Incentive grant program, as a condition of acceptance and renewal of a Transplant Centre Incentive grant, submission of data will be mandatory.
Any Canadian lung transplant centre which currently has one or more individuals with cystic fibrosis listed for transplant may apply for a Transplant Centre Incentive grant. (Please note that under no circumstances will funding be provided to more than one transplant centre in the same city.)
Transplant Centre Incentive grants will be renewable on an annual basis.
The value of Transplant Centre Incentive grants will be determined in accordance with a formula which takes account of the number of patients accepted for transplantation; transplanted; followed in the first year, in the second to fifth year, and more than 5 years post-operatively in a given centre, based on an average of three years’ activity, ending 31 December of the year preceding the application.
Applicants must demonstrate how any funds awarded would serve to enhance the quality of care available to CF patients in their centre.
Applicants must document that CF patients who are accepted as lung transplant candidates will have access to information and non-financial assistance with respect to accommodation, transportation, and oxygen; and assist with administration of funds for CF transplant patients which have been donated to help defray the personal expenses associated with transplantation, such as the development of trusts.
Applicants must provide a rationale for the funding request, and a detailed report on patient care and research within the lung transplant program.
All applications will be adjudicated by the Clinic Subcommittee of Cystic Fibrosis Canada.
Applications must be received at Cystic Fibrosis Canada's office no later than 1 October. Electronic submission of applications is required, and should be sent to the Manager, Clinical Programs. Late applications will be subject to a penalty equal to 10% of the value of the award.
(a) Payment of personnel
Transplant Centre Incentive grant funds may be used for the support of personnel, excluding licensed physicians, (a) directly involved in the provision of patient services; (b) to liaise with referring CF clinics, regarding pre- and post-transplant care. All personnel compensated through a Transplant Centre Incentive grant will be considered employees of the institution in receipt of the grant, not of Cystic Fibrosis Canada.
(b) Travel
A component of Transplant Centre Incentive grant is allocated to travel, to encourage members of the transplant centre team to attend scientific meetings on lung transplantation, or related to CF care.
(c) Administrative expenses
Funds are also awarded (a) to facilitate data submission to Cystic Fibrosis Canada; (b) to ensure that CF patients who are accepted as lung transplant candidates will have access to information and non-financial assistance with respect to accommodation, transportation, and oxygen; and (c) to help in the administration of funds for CF transplant patients which have been donated to help defray the personal expenses associated with transplantation, such as the development of trusts.
(a) Site review
Centres which hold a Transplant Centre Incentive grant will be subject to a Cystic Fibrosis Canada site review once every three years. Site reviewers will be designated by the Clinic Subcommittee of Cystic Fibrosis Canada, and the full cooperation of transplant centre personnel will be sought in arranging and conducting these site reviews. Centres that have hosted a site visit since submitting their last grant application are requested to comment on the resulting site visit report, and its recommendations.
(b) Payment of grants
Grant payments will be made at the beginning of each fiscal quarter, beginning 1 April, through the transplant centre's host institution. Cystic Fibrosis Canada Transplant Centre Incentive grants are under the jurisdiction of the director.
(c) Financial reports
Centres holding a Transplant Centre Incentive grant will be required to submit an annual financial report by 1 June. Centres that do not comply with the reporting deadline will have the 1 October grant payment withheld until the financial report has been received.
(d) Cancellation of grants
Cystic Fibrosis Canada reserves the option to cancel a grant and to request the return of any unexpended funds, for appropriate cause. A grantee institution also may cancel a Transplant Centre Incentive grant. In either case, 90 days written notice is required.
(e) Unexpended funds
Transplant Centre Incentive grant funds which remain unexpended at the end of each grant year must be returned to Cystic Fibrosis Canada within 90 days.
(f) Over-expenditure
Any commitment incurred by a transplant centre in excess of the amount of Cystic Fibrosis Canada Transplant Centre Incentive grant is not the responsibility of Cystic Fibrosis Canada.
(g) Submission of data
As with Cystic Fibrosis Canada’s Clinic Incentive grant program, as a condition of acceptance and renewal of a Transplant Centre Incentive grant, submission of data will be mandatory.
(h) Indirect costs
Cystic Fibrosis Canada-funded research, clinic and transplant centre grants do not provide for institutional overheads and/or indirect costs of research or clinical care.
For more information see:
Cystic Fibrosis Canada Grants & Awards Guide
Reviewed/updated: 2011-01-31
